Editing Zoolander (section)

===Casting===
Owen Wilson  was Stiller's first choice for the role of Hansel but it was uncertain if he would be available and auditions were held. [[Jake Gyllenhaal]] auditioned for the role. Andy Dick was going to play Mugatu, but was unavailable due to a previous commitment to the TV show ''[[Go Fish (TV series)|Go Fish]]''.<ref name="Kaplan">{{cite web |date=28 September 2021 |last1=Kaplan |first1=Ilana |title=''Zoolander'' at 20: How a Post-9/11 Flop Became the Comedy Everyone's Still Quoting |url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a37762711/zoolander-20th-anniversary-ben-stiller-interview/ |website=Esquire |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231220100851/https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a37762711/zoolander-20th-anniversary-ben-stiller-interview/ |archive-date= Dec 20, 2023 }}</ref><ref name="vf-history-20">{{cite web |first1=Andrew |last1=Buss |title="But Why Male Models?": An Oral History of Zoolander |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/09/zoolander-20th-anniversary-oral-history |website=[[Vanity Fair (magazines)|Vanity Fair]] |publisher=Condé Nast |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930124439/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/09/zoolander-20th-anniversary-oral-history |archive-date=2021-09-30 |date=30 September 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref> Stiller had originally intended to play Derek's agent Maury as well, but was already set to play the lead role and direct the film, leading him to cast his father Jerry Stiller as Maury instead.<ref name="newsau">{{Cite web |last=Coy |first=Bronte |date=September 11, 2017 |title=16 years on: What you never knew about Zoolander |url=https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/16-years-on-what-you-never-knew-about-zoolander/news-story/ed99c5eb7a0e601ec029b7fb8272bb2c |access-date=March 11, 2022 |website=[[News.com.au]]}}</ref>

[[David Bowie]] appeared as himself as the judge of the walk-off scene, filming his cameo in September 2000. He later stated, "It was just too funny a script to walk past. An absolute hoot!"<ref name="Pegg" /> With his entrance accompanied by a freeze-frame and a snippet of his song "[[Let's Dance (David Bowie song)|Let's Dance]]" (1983), biographer [[Nicholas Pegg]] describes Bowie's appearance as "willingly sending up the media's image of him as the ultimate arbiter of cool."<ref name="Pegg">{{cite book |last=Pegg |first=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Pegg |title=The Complete David Bowie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqFkDQAAQBAJ |publisher=[[Titan Books]] |location=London |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-78565-365-0 |edition=Revised and Updated |page=679}}</ref>