Jason Bateman

And it's those things where you go, I don't even remember thinking this could be silly.

I actually remember thinking, well, it's quite fun.

Maybe I should try Quaaludes.

No, I'm joking.

I just had a commitment to it that meant it felt like I was on the ride, but also thinking...

I hope this actually works.

I think we have that a lot, don't we, when we're having a good time doing something as well, going, okay, this feels great, and everyone here is enjoying it, but is anyone going to watch it or think the same?

And I think to your point about directors, you can come out of an experience and go, oh, shit, I really do need to trust my voice and my instincts a little bit more sometimes because I think I could have got that better.

I have had moments watching things soon after their completion and gone, ah, yeah, I should have dug my heels about that.

It's not the best take or the best choice.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah.

The first time I met...

I mean, Mark, I'd done a little thing with Mark Strong, so I knew him.

Colin was just absurdly wonderful and lovely and nice and goofy and impressionable, as well as being ridiculously smart and talented and devilishly handsome and all the rest of the years.

And then...

Gary, when I first met Gary, he walked around the corner of, it was either working titles office or it was somewhere uninspiring.

And it wasn't where I was expecting to meet him.

And I'd gone in for a costume fitting and there he was.

And he just got me, and he just stopped, we stopped in the corridor and he looked at me, looked me up and down and went, oh.