Ben Stiller defies critics calling for Trump to be cut from ‘Zoolander’
Ben Stiller, who directed and starred in the hit 2001 comedy film “Zoolander” — which features a brief cameo from Donald Trump — said this week he won’t cut the president from the movie, despite critics’ calls for Stiller to erase him.Stiller portrays male supermodel Derek Zoolander in the nearly 20-year-old flick — and said on the Daily Beast podcast “The New Abnormal” that when an opportunity arose for The Donald to be part of the production, he jumped on it.“We were shooting at the now defunct VH1 Fashion Awards … and as people were coming up the red carpet, we pulled them aside and asked them to talk about Derek Zoolander, and so Trump and Melania did that,” Stiller said on the podcast.Years later, of course, Trump became president.