Ariana Grande has revealed that she first met Ben Stiller when he directed her in Zoolander 2.
The singer and actress made the comment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she appeared with Stiller and Robert De Niro to promote the new film Focker-in-Law.
“He was directing me in an orgy scene in Zoolander 2 with a hippo and Susan Sarandon,” she said.
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She joked that the two had a “comfortability” right away. Stiller jumped in with: “A connection.”
Grande had a cameo in the 2016 comedy, which Stiller directed.
In Focker-in-Law, the fourth film in the franchise after Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, she plays Olivia Jones, who is dating Henry Focker, the son of Greg and Pam Focker.
Grande said she was honoured to be asked to join the cast, and described the script by director and writer John Hamburg.
She also told Fallon about her first meeting with De Niro. It happened about 11 years ago, backstage on The Tonight Show, when the pair took a selfie, with her mother beside her.
The appearance reunited her with Stiller, who has worked with her before, and added to the buzz around the latest instalment of the Fockers series.
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