Ben Stiller Recalls the Embarrassing Mistake He Made While Working on Steven Spielberg's 'Empire of the Sun'

Ben Stiller is looking back at one of his first acting jobs!

The actor starred in Steven Spielberg‘s film Empire of the Sun back in 1987 and during an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday (March 31), he recalled an embarrassing mistake he made while making the movie.

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“It was really exciting because I was a huge Spielberg fan,” he said. “And he’d come to see a play I was in, and he basically cast me in the movie.”

“After like three or four minutes of this shot, and I say my line,” Ben recalled. “I’m supposed to say, ‘Hey, kid, would you like a Hershey bar?’ And I screwed it up, and I said, ‘Hey, kid, would you like a chocolate bar?’ And then I went, ‘Oh, damn. I’m sorry. Cut.’ And then silence.”

He continued, “I just hear, from out where the monitors are, ‘What?’ [I said] ‘I’m sorry, I screwed up my line.’ And then I hear Steven Spielberg say, ‘You never yell cut!’”

The actor added, “And of course, my hero, my idol, I’m realizing I just did the most embarrassing thing ever. So, it worked out fine.”

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