Ben Stiller admits worst decision' of his life was cutting daughter from movie

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"He also reckons with how his experiences growing up with them would later shape him as a father. In a discussion about his perfectionism, which he believes he inherited from his father, Stiller tells his 23-year-old daughter, Ella, that he struggled to cut her from what would have been her film debut. I cut you out of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. It's probably the worst decision I ever made in my life, says Stiller."

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