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\n\tThere was a period, in his 20s, when Jason Bateman considered hanging it all up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHe\u2019d been acting since he was 10, landing one hit series<\/a> after another. Little House on the Prairie<\/em>. Silver Spoons<\/em>. The Hogan Family<\/em>. By the time he was old enough to drive, he was a fixture in magazines like Bop<\/em> and Tiger Beat<\/em>, and offers were being doled out like candy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the thing about teen idoldom is it doesn\u2019t last, which Bateman learned the hard way.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere was a critically savaged flop, then a string of quickly canceled sitcoms and a decade of debauchery. By the mid-1990s, Bateman was fantasizing about stuffing whatever money he had left in a duffle, heading to the international terminal at LAX and starting over. Had he gone another few months without work, he\u2019s pretty sure he would have followed through with it, too.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI would\u2019ve bought a little coffee shop in some small town in Western Europe, learned the language and made local villager friends,\u201d he says almost wistfully. \u201cIt sounds so stupid, but I would\u2019ve walked around with a little apron on and sat at everyone\u2019s table and just had a quaint, little life \u2014 and I bet I would have loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe never got the chance to find out. In 2003, Bateman landed the role of beleaguered straight man Michael Bluth on Arrested Development<\/em>, an instant cult hit that thrust him back into the zeitgeist. He shrewdly parlayed that role into others, small ones at first (Juno<\/em>) then larger ones (Ozark<\/em>). From there, he inked a significant deal at Netflix, built out a legitimate production company, launched the $100 million podcast, SmartLess<\/em> and continued lining up films and TV shows, including Zootopia 2<\/em>, Black Rabbit<\/em> and HBO\u2019s upcoming DTF St. Louis<\/em>. If it feels like Bateman, 57, is suddenly everywhere, it\u2019s because, well, he is.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWere it not for some of that cliff-hanging earlier in my career, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d be as good as I am at the caretaking of these opportunities,\u201d he says, seated in the busy West Hollywood headquarters of his Aggregate Films. \u201cBut I have seen and felt what it is like to really not have a lot of prospects, and it keeps you hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIronically, his friends, a tight group that includes Will Arnett, Jennifer Aniston and Jimmy Kimmel, refer to him as \u201cgrandpa\u201d \u2014 but that has more to do with Bateman\u2019s lifestyle choices, a rotation of golf, the Dodgers and a steady drip of MSNBC, than his prolific output. Plus, as Kimmel notes, \u201cHe rarely makes it out past 10, and if he does, there\u2019s a lot of, \u2018Oh great job, Grandpa. Congratulations.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFortunately, Bateman is as good at receiving the barbs as he is at slinging them, which is clear to anyone who\u2019s listened to him, Arnett and Sean Hayes banter on SmartLess<\/em>. \u201cBut the truth is, I look up to J.B. in so many ways,\u201d says Arnett, who will mercilessly rib his pal for being \u201ca dummy\u201d on the podcast but, off of it, insists that Bateman is anything but. \u201cI seek his counsel in virtually every area of my life, because the advice he gives comes from the perspective of a guy who\u2019s really righted his own ship.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tFor all of Bateman\u2019s mid-career woes, his entry into the industry was remarkably smooth. It was his father who initially whet his app<\/a>etite. Like Bateman, he had acting aspirations, though it was postproduction work that paid the bills, moving the family from New York to Boston to Salt Lake City all before Jason\u2019s 8th birthday. The Batemans ultimately settled in Los Angeles, though little felt traditional as his dad was busy chasing freelance opportunities and his mother, a flight attendant for Pan Am, was gone two weeks out of every month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy father and I wouldn\u2019t go to the park to play catch, we\u2019d go to the movies,\u201d says Bateman, \u201cand he\u2019d explain to me what good acting is and what bad acting is.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOne day, when he was 10, a neighbor and friend of his dad was heading to an audition for a short film and invited Bateman to tag along. He ended up reading for the part of his son, and though the neighbor didn\u2019t book the role, Jason did. Commercials followed, then Little House on the Prairie<\/em>; soon, his older sister, Justine, was eager to try her luck as well. Like her brother, she began booking commercials immedia<\/a>tely, then nabbed a series-regular gig as Michael J. Fox\u2019s sister, Mallory, on the 1980s hit Family Ties<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn retrospect, it\u2019s really insane,\u201d says Bateman. \u201cThe two of us both landed these NBC shows, and off we go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTo this day, his buddies get a kick out of his showbiz upbringing, convinced he\u2019s met everyone in his nearly 50 years in the business. In fact, Kimmel has made a game<\/a> of just tossing out wild Hollywood names. \u201cYou can go, like, \u2018Gary Coleman,\u2019 and he\u2019s like, \u2018Oh yeah, Gary and I were friends. We played trains together on the set of Silver Spoons<\/em>,\u2019 \u201d says Kimmel. \u201cOr you say, \u2018Leif Garrett,\u2019 and he\u2019s like, \u2018Leif! Yeah, he dated my sister. He\u2019s a good friend, we travel<\/a>ed in an RV together from ski town to ski town.\u2019 Or \u2018Mr. T,\u2019 and he\u2019s like, \u2018Bought me my first necklace.\u2019 That one I may have made up, but that\u2019s really what you get.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat early success was not without complexity, however. His parents became his manager, as they later would for Justine, and suddenly he was a meaningful contributor to the family\u2019s bottom line before he\u2019d even entered high school. And in order for Bateman to retain his work permit, and the lifestyle it afforded his family, he had to maintain a C average, which added what he\u2019s historically described as \u201cearth-shattering\u201d pressure to every major exam. When he\u2019s discussed the complicated dynamic with other former child stars on the podcast, he\u2019s been vocal about the significant challenges of being \u201cthe boss at an age when you need parental guidance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn this day, he acknowledges that he also took no small amount of pride in it. \u201cMaybe it was masochistic, but I really felt proud of myself that my parents and the crew were relying on me,\u201d he says. \u201cYeah, I was overwhelmed at times with the pressure of it, but not nearly as much as I was feeling the attaboy wind on my back.\u201d And there was cause for plenty of attaboys. In fact, by 15, Bateman was already invited to carry his own show. At 18, he became the youngest person ever admitted to the DGA. And if the press hits he did during that period were any indication, it went right to his head. A few, including the early Johnny Carson appearances, pop up in his feed periodically, and he cringes every time.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMaybe if I was acting a little bit more like a guest as opposed to some sort of salty veteran, it would\u2019ve been a little bit more palatable,\u201d he offers. \u201cBut I certainly thought that I was incredible in my teens.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBack then, Bateman naively assumed the transition from teen idol to adult actor would be easy, which is why he never bothered with a backup plan. Asked whether anyone had advised him to at least consider college, he laughs. \u201cMy parents were my manager at the time, so they kind of had a conflict of interest there. They\u2019re not going to say, \u2018Stop doing this and start studying something else,\u2019 \u201d he says. In retrospect, Bateman, who never even graduated from high school, wishes that they had. \u201cBut I did Teen Wolf Too<\/em> at 18, and it was like, \u2018Well, it\u2019s all up from here. Look at me, I\u2019m starring in the movies!\u2019 \u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThat big-screen debut, which his dad produced, was savaged by critics and bombed at the box office. Not long after, he and his father parted ways professionally. Bateman likes to say that there was very little friction, simply that he, as he once explained to Howard Stern, \u201cgot old enough where Daddy shouldn\u2019t be your manager.\u201d But in a 2015 interview with Marc Maron, he revealed that he and his parents had had a \u201cdistant\u201d relationship in the decades since. Today, he\u2019s more measured: \u201cI assume that our relationship is as normal as any other relationship between adult children and parents at this age.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut by the time The Hogan Family<\/em> wrapped its six-season run, Bateman was 22, and the offers were no longer flooding in. He\u2019d still do a pilot a year, but of the few that actually went to series, none made it past a single season. Suddenly, his past success felt like baggage. \u201cIt was a big slap of humility,\u201d he recalls, \u201cand it was scary knowing that there was a lot of life ahead of me.\u201d With time on his hands, Bateman decided to catch up on all of the partying that he hadn\u2019t been able to do. He went hard \u2014\u00a0alcohol, cocaine, whatever he could get his hands on \u2014 though he\u2019s always contended that he was more of a hedonist than an addict. His mentality was simple: If he wasn\u2019t going to have fun acting, he\u2019d find fun elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFortunately, I was living at a time without social media and camera phones, so I got away with a lot, but it was definitely close a few times,\u201d he says with a devilish smile. According to Kimmel, there were \u201csome shenanigans\u201d backstage with Andy Dick during Bateman\u2019s first appearance on his show, but he leaves it there. (He and Bateman became friends much later. \u201cAfter drugs,\u201d jokes Kimmel.) Still, Bateman insists that he was always able to show up for work the next morning, should he have any. His parents may have taken 15 percent, but they did instill him with discipline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBy the early aughts, Bateman was auditioning to be the \u201cCan you hear me now?\u201d guy on the Verizon commercials. His career was nowhere near where it had been, much less where he wanted it to be.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn spring 2003, Bateman read the pilot for Arrested Development<\/em> and panicked. \u201cIt was amazing, and all I could think was, \u2018Oh fuck, this sounds like the exact thing that they wouldn\u2019t want my stink on,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cI was the traditional multicam, studio-audience guy, and there they were trying to do something kind of punk rock in this new single-camera comedy world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut he went to the audition and nailed the show\u2019s irreverent comedic tone, which aligned squarely with his own very dry, very sarcastic sense of humor that he\u2019d inherited from his British mom. The sitcom debuted on Fox later that fall, and, among critics and tastemakers, it hit immediately. \u201cAmerica didn\u2019t watch, but the people that handed out jobs did, and you could just tell, like, oh, this is cool and us being a part of it actually makes us cool by association,\u201d says Bateman. \u201cAnd so it was that stink I could almost smell being washed off of me little bits at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA year or so in, he put an end to his drinking and partying, or whatever was left of the habit now that he had a steady day job. \u201cI\u2019ve got friends who had bottoms that were pretty chilling, but I was lucky enough to recognize, \u2018This is probably as far as I should go if I still want to accomplish the things that I want to get to,\u2019 \u201d says Bateman, who was disciplined even in his debauchery. \u201cI was conscious the whole time of wanting to get a lot of these boxes checked before I became a father and a guy with a career that I not only wanted but had a feeling I might be able to get it if I just got the right job.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBy then, he\u2019d married Amanda Anka, a voiceover actress and Paul Anka\u2019s daughter, with whom he was eager to start a family. She\u2019d been the breadwinner early in the relationship and continues to be a strong, steadying force. \u201cAmanda and I definitely had a few negotiations about the point at which the [partying] spigot was going to completely turn off. She\u2019d be like, \u2018This drip, drip, drip is annoyingly unpredictable, Jason,\u2019 \u201d he says, then clarifies: \u201cShe didn\u2019t demand that I completely absolve, but that was sort of the back-and-forth, and I was like, well, I feel like my [sobriety] ETA is six months away, but if I could land this plane now, it would alleviate a lot of the tension, so let\u2019s just fucking do it.\u201d (While he\u2019s abstained from booze and what he\u2019s called \u201cthe Scarface<\/em> stuff\u201d for decades now, Bateman has joked that he is \u201cCalifornia sober,\u201d which is to say he\u2019s not above a gummy.)<\/p>\n

\n\tLike the accolades, which included a cadre of Emmy and SAG noms and a Golden Globe win, the opportunities began flowing in from there \u2014 though Bateman was much more discerning the second time around. \u201cHaving been on the outside looking in for so long, I\u2019d gotten a real good sense of what it was that provided longevity,\u201d he says, \u201cand it wasn\u2019t fame or money, it was respect.\u201d So, he said yes to things that would put him in the company of actors and filmmakers whom he respected, regardless of how big or small the roles were and what genre or medium they were in.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor a good stretch, that included a slew of straight-man roles in big-screen comedies, including Couples Retreat<\/em>, Game Night<\/em> and Horrible Bosses<\/em>. By 2013, the same year Netflix revived Arrested Development<\/em>, he made his feature directorial debut with Bad Words<\/em>, a black comedy about a spelling bee. He also starred, this time as another popular Bateman archetype, the asshole. Focus acquired the rights to the film for a reported $7 million, and Bateman\u2019s priorities shifted almost overnight. \u201cTo have a job that asked me to bring everything I\u2019d learned was really exciting to me,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I got to see that I could be the guy that the old salty veterans on the set would come up to and say, \u2018Hey, you\u2019ve done good, kid.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut no project since Arrested<\/em> Development<\/em> had a more immediate and meaningful impact on Bateman\u2019s career than Ozark<\/em>, a Taylor Sheridan-style juggernaut before Sheridan had come on the scene. Initially, Bateman had to persuade the execs at Netflix and studio MRC to let him direct the 2017 pilot \u2014 and though they\u2019d set their sights on an A-list director like David Fincher, they eventually caved, and by all accounts he became the creative engine of the crime drama, in front of and behind the camera. By year two, Bateman had won an Emmy for his directorial work on the series, which seemed to come as little surprise to those involved.<\/p>\n

\n\tJulia Garner, his co-star, has said it\u2019s his ability to \u201crelax everybody and make it fun\u201d that differentiates Bateman as a director; Laura Linney, who played his wife for four seasons, offers something similar of Bateman, the actor. \u201cI\u2019d get very mad scientist, reading the script a million times, breaking it down, doing research, all of these things to deal with my nerves, and then Jason would come on set, and he can learn his lines in five seconds, and he\u2019s so present and it\u2019s just fun,\u201d she says, noting that it was also Bateman who perpetually prodded her to start directing, which she ultimately did with a pivotal episode of Ozark<\/em> and, later, with two episodes of his Black Rabbit<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tBateman, who fastidiously studies the trades and his every review, was already tight with Netflix\u2019s Ted Sarandos when the streamer signed him and his Aggregate Films to a sweeping first-look deal in 2018. By then, he\u2019d recruited a seasoned executive in Michael Costigan, who did stints at Sony and Scott Free, to help him build out the company in the mold of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer\u2019s Imagine. Before Costigan took the gig, he flew to Atlanta, where Ozark<\/em> filmed, to sit with Bateman and make sure Aggregate wouldn\u2019t be another vanity company.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFortunately, that was his giant allergy, too,\u201d says Costigan, \u201cand if we were going to do this together, he also didn\u2019t want it to feel like it was, \u2018the world according to Jason Bateman.\u2019 \u201d Instead, the duo assembled a team of 10 or so employees \u2014 a group of largely 20- and 30-somethings who are encouraged to challenge their boomer bosses \u2014 and got busy building a slate of high-profile projects that don\u2019t all star Bateman. To date, the output has included hits like Brie Larson\u2019s Emmy-nominated Lessons in Chemistry<\/em> and Glen Powell\u2019s buzzy Hit Man<\/em>. Up next: a top-secret project with red-hot Heated Rivalry<\/em> creator Jacob Tierney.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for Bateman, after nearly five decades in the business, he claims he\u2019s laser-focused on taking roles that feel fresh and different and distance him from, as he puts it, \u201cTV\u2019s Jason Bateman.\u201d The latter was certainly top of mind when Jude Law called about starring opposite him in Black Rabbit<\/em>, which is why he took the \u201cfucked-up brother\u201d role as opposed to Law\u2019s straitlaced one. Same for DTF St. Louis<\/em>, a dark comedy\/murder mystery where several of the characters, including Bateman\u2019s, explore their sexual kinks. DTF<\/em> writer-director Steve Conrad insists Bateman didn\u2019t so much as flinch at the series\u2019 provocative nature. In fact, he says, \u201cIf anybody was scared, I thought it was going to be me because Jason can do my job and I can\u2019t do his, but there wasn\u2019t a moment where he tried.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe most successful thing on Bateman\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 was never intended to be a podcast. Sure, he\u2019d always said he hoped his next act would include a Charlie Rose-style talk show, but SmartLess<\/em> isn\u2019t exactly that (though three former presidents have come on as guests). Instead, what started as a way for three buddies to stay in contact early in the pandemic morphed into something far more significant. Since 2020, there\u2019s been a sold-out tour, an HBO docuseries and a succession of lucrative distribution deals, the latest one with Sirius XM valued at nine figures.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe financial security of it is something I don\u2019t take lightly, and it\u2019s given me a healthy level of indifference when it comes to assessing other creative opportunities for myself,\u201d says Bateman, as a smile curves his lips. \u201cIt\u2019s also a good reminder that some of the greatest things in your life come when you\u2019re not chasing them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor its listeners, SmartLess<\/em> has offered an opportunity to get to know the real Bateman, after years of watching him play other people. \u201cAnd what you hear is exactly<\/em> what it\u2019s like at dinner with all of them,\u201d says Kimmel of the incessant ball-busting. \u201cWith Jason, he\u2019ll wander from complete self-awareness to no self-awareness, and the moment that he wanders out of self-awareness is when Will fires a flaming arrow at him.\u201d His extreme discipline, to the point of obsession, with things like food and exercise is a frequent target, too, as is his penchant for the good life. (Per multiple sources, he\u2019s been known to negotiate private airfare to and from set and have rigid boundaries around how much time he\u2019ll devote to a project.)<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the SmartLess<\/em> format, where two of the three hosts have no idea who the guest is before the taping, has its drawbacks, which became evident earlier this month when Hayes invited Charli xcx on the show. As a listener, it was immediately clear that Bateman knew very little about the pop star, at one point acknowledging that the cultural phenomenon that was \u201cBrat\u201d had largely eluded him. He then stepped in it when he asked the 31-year-old how many children she wanted; and when she said none, suggesting her mind might change when she meets the right person, as his wife\u2019s did when she met him. Of course, had Charli been Bateman\u2019s guest, he would have known that she was, in fact, already married and that she\u2019d mined her feelings around child-rearing in her music.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe exchange itself was friendly, but the online response to Bateman\u2019s line of questioning was decidedly less so. Asked for his thoughts on what transpired a week later, he offers this: \u201cWe were having a great conversation about her life growing up as an only child. It seemed like a very natural follow-up to that. That\u2019s all it was. I don\u2019t really have much [else] to say about it, except that it is always interesting and valuable and educational to hear people\u2019s thoughts, reactions and feelings to anything I say or do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe irony of the whole thing is that Bateman, for as long as he can remember, has wanted a traditional family \u2014 a chance to create the kind of \u201cnormalcy\u201d that he didn\u2019t have in his own home growing up. That \u201cGrandpa\u201d nickname isn\u2019t just because he likes to turn in early; it\u2019s because Bateman likes to be home with his wife and daughters. \u201cI\u2019m a softie,\u201d he says, proudly. \u201cI like moving the Elf on the Shelf every day. In fact, we\u2019ve got a new little thing, a troll, that I move around now in the offseason. But I love it all: the slippers, the fireplace, the nesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHis oldest, an aspiring director, went off to college last year, and the transition has been considerably harder on him than it has been on her. Bateman still has his 14-year-old at home, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, she\u2019s expressed interest in acting. And though he insists she\u2019s \u201cpretty damn good,\u201d he\u2019s been vehemently opposed to child stardom for his own offspring. Why put them through that, he reasons. At nearly 60, and with a pile of scripts stacked high on his desk, he\u2019s still trying to shed his past. \u201cI still feel like I\u2019m trying not to be a child-actor failure,\u201d he\u2019s said. \u201cI\u2019m still trying to make it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis story appears in the Feb. 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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