“Stiller does try to play a straight man,” says Cote.<\/p>\n
“Yeah,” Ballard replies, “not really. He’s just taking the zany self-abuse character and putting it out front.”<\/p>\n
The elevator car stops to admit another man, a stranger. There are acknowledgement nods all around.<\/p>\n
“I mean, a dog biting him on the crotch?” Ballard continues. “Like five minutes of it, facial expressions and all?”<\/p>\n
“That’s not straight,” Cote concedes.<\/p>\n
The car stops again; there are nods; the stranger exits.<\/p>\n
“Probably a bad place to come into that conversation,” says Cote, after a while.<\/p>\n
“Yeah,” says Ballard. “Now that<\/i> was a straight man.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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