Ben Stiller reprises his iconic role of Zoolander for a Pepsi Super Bowl commercial

Ben Stiller showed off his acting chops as he returned to the character of airheaded male model Derek Zoolander in a new Pepsi ad that will air on the Super Bowl on February 12.

The new commercial comically highlights the 57-year-old actor’s comedic chops by allowing him to showcase a variety of quirky characters, before Zoolander makes a brief appearance with his classic Blue Steel expression.

Unfortunately, he made it clear in an interview with People that there are no plans at this time for a third Zoolander movie.

Stiller, who will next show his range playing a set of identical triplets who were separated at birth in an adaptation of the documentary Three Identical Strangers, opens the commercial in a battle-scarred sci-fi wasteland while fighting a reptilian alien.

“Get away from my wife,” he says hilariously before attacking the fallen creature and unleashing a cascade of green goo.

But then the director says cut and the camera cuts to reveal that he’s just on a sound stage and surrounded by green screens.

After introducing himself, Stiller says, “My job as an actor is to make you believe that what you’re seeing is real.”

The action then cuts to a dinner party starring former Saturday Night Live star Rachel Dratch.

Stiller kneels down and pulls out an engagement ring to present to her, causing her to squeal with delight.

Unfortunately, she falls backwards and ends up accidentally kicking her suitor in the face.

“The pain is real,” Stiller replies after the fake hit.

The Greenberg star proved he wasn’t above doing goofy voices in the next scene, when he played a bearded man struggling to survive in a blizzard, which seemed to be inspired by Leonardo DiCaprio’s costume in The Revenant.

“And the cold is real,” he says in a tiny, squeaky voice.

Next, he was on Mars. She leaned down to talk to a little robot that made sad beeps.

“Don’t say that about yourself,” she said, trying to comfort him. “But the friendship is real,” she adds, before absently slamming the robot to the ground.

Then her Zoolander persona makes a surprise appearance in a makeup chair backstage.

“Real is real,” he says nonsensically, using Zoolander’s comically raspy half-whispered voice.

She then briefly sucks in her cheeks and stares deeply into the camera in an approximation of her Blue Steel model look from the first Zoolander film (2001).

So Stiller appears in his true self on set.

“But it’s not real, it’s just acting,” he says as he takes a sip of Pepsi Zero Sugar. ‘Wow, that’s like, really cool. Or was he just acting?

However, Zoolander gets the last laugh, as he has a little tag at the end of the episode.

“This is really, really, ridiculously good,” he says, before sipping his Pepsi through a straw.

while talking to People about the commercial, Stiller said that it was “always fun” to revisit his Zoolander persona.

“Every time I get a chance to do it again, I feel this reconnection,” he said. ‘[I have] such fond memories of years of working on the films, going back to when we first did the character.

“It’s been a long history with him, so it’s great that people still want to see Derek in their lives,” he continued. “I think he represents something to people in terms of a sweet blandness that’s very endearing.”

Unfortunately, most Zoolander fans are likely to be watching for quite some time, as Stiller confirmed that there are no plans for a third Zoolander movie at the time.

“If a story came up that was a great idea for a movie, we could try to figure it out. But I thought it actually made sense that she would do a product ad, because that’s what she does as a model, she sells things. He represents things and glamourizes them,” Stiller explained. “So it felt very organic to make this announcement, and it’s a fun way to do it without really having to worry about having to build an entire movie around it.”

Stiller added praise for his co-star Rachel Dratch.

“She’s amazing, she’s so ridiculously funny,” he gushed. “She’s so specific and she added so much because of her physique in the way that she really did. I mean…even the way she turns in her chair. Her acting with her feet is also very funny.

Stiller’s ad will air during the Super Bowl on February 12, along with a similarly themed commercial starring Steve Martin.