Having worked with everyone from Jack Black to Ricky Gervais, Ben Stiller is no stranger to a bit of monkeying around on-set. However, it’s unlikely that he ever expected to be on the receiving end of a joke between real primates while filming Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian.The funny-man was shooting a fight sequence with the naughty simians when they went too far and started slapping him across the face.
“We have two this time. I had to do a slap fight with them. I basically get slapped by both of them, but I am not allowed to slap them back because of animal rights, so I have to slap a dummy or a tennis ball when they’re off-screen. It’s a weird experience.”
Perhaps they were just trying to pay him back for giving us Tropic Thunder…
