“But why male models?” in Zoolander
If you didn’t know, it’s an actor’s job to memorize hundreds if not thousands of lines. So, obviously, it makes sense if the actor forgets a line or two while shooting. When this happens, the director can call cut and re-shoot it from the top, but in Zoolander, that’s not what happened.
J.P. Prewett (David Duchovny) explains in pretty great detail why models are the perfect assassins to Zoolander (Ben Stiller). But only moments later, Zoolander asks him again, “but why male models?” to which Prewett confusedly tells him that he just explained why. This scene looks so planned, but it was actually Ben’s forgetfulness that led to this hilarious moment.