Ben Stiller Wants to Make ‘Severance’ More Quickly—but First, He Needs to Get It Just Right

Ben Stiller has lived many lives in Hollywood. He was an Emmy-winning writer before turning 30, thanks to his short-lived variety series The Ben Stiller Show. By 40, he was toplining comedy box-office smashes, including Meet the Parents and Zoolander. Then he turned toward prestige, from an Emmy-nominated turn poking brutal fun at himself in Ricky Gervais’s Extras to a Spirit Award nomination for his acerbic work in Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg. All along, Stiller was directing…