Ben Stiller didn't want to insert himself into his documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost .

The actor and director intended to make a movie about his parents, the revered comedic duo of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara , and at first felt "self-conscious" about his own presence. But when he started to show friends the film—which is set to premiere at the New York Film Festival before debuting in theaters Oct. 17 and on Apple TV+ Oct. 24—he heard a similar refrain: "I'm not really seeing that much of you in it."

He realized he had a role to play.

"The thing that was missing was probably my perspective on my parents, but also my perspective on my own relationships as affected by growing up with them," he said in a phone call while on a break from shooting the fourth Meet the Paren

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