Acting has always come naturally. Now he’s happier behind the camera.
,” the podcast he does with Will Arnett and Sean Hayes went on tour earlier this year, Arnett recruited Will Ferrell as their surprise guest in D.C. and Bradley Cooper for Brooklyn. Bateman’s selection for the Boston stop? The Swedish-born Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist and artificial intelligence expert Max Tegmark.
Bateman describes himself as an introvert. He listens mainly to classical music and does tend to prefer staying in. Part of this is rooted in his decision to quit drinking in 2002, but it also speaks to a lack of pretension, and a perspective he formed years ago. But “The Hogan Family” didn’t lead to more work. By his early 20s, Bateman found himself living alone — he no longer had his father, Kent, a director and producer, managing him — and trying to reinvent himself as much personally as professionally.
— and the adults who had to tolerate them. He did acid around his 20th birthday and remembers an unpleasant trip marked by an awareness of his own lack of humility.Bateman remembers sitting in a hotel room in New York in the early 1990s. “The Hogan Family” was done, and he was on the phone, grumbling to his lawyer about a lowball offer to make a pilot.
“I saw Jason Bateman was the fourth name,” he says. “And I remember saying, ‘Don’t bring in Jason Bateman. If you bring in Jason Bateman, he’ll be good, the network will insist on me making the Jason Bateman show.’ And at that time, he was at risk of being an actor who just does pilots that don’t go forward.”
“I think he is mistaking easy with second nature,” he says. “He’s been doing it for so long that it’s almost instinctive. For a lot of people, it’s not easy to do what Jason does.”
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