Jason Bateman

So you try, but you're not great?

Exactly that.

I started in my 40s, and I'm near the end of my 40s, and I'm still feeling like I'm starting.

And I had a shoulder operation last year, so I haven't done it at all for about, actually, no, this year, for about six months.

But I love it.

I love it.

Where did you start it?

Weirdly enough, in New Zealand, when we were doing Power of the Dog, we got shut down because of lockdown, and we had the decision to make to stay, which by then, because I had two octogenarian parents, one of whom is a severe asthmatic, staying with us, as it would happen, my mum and dad, and our three very young children at that point, Sophie and a nanny, and we just thought, okay, we're going to stay.

And it was a bit scary to begin with, but utterly magical and extraordinary.

One of the best places on earth to be, as it turned out.

And there was a little left-hand break in Tiawunga in Hawke's Bay.

Big shout out to Tiawungans.

Anyway, the point is, it was where I learned.

And I'm goofy, actually, so left break's not as good as a right.

But I quite like... No, that's wrong.

It must have been a right break.

yeah because i'm right foot forward so you're not you're supposed to be facing the wave around the facing the shore but so i learned really on the wrong wave but i loved it every now and again you get it left and i i just i really fell in love with it i fell in love with the view of the coastline um i fell in love with that connection to the ocean that sense of how present you are and the community as well this extraordinary group of people where all is kind of forgiven as long as you don't take their wave

And the drug dealer would be there and the head of the local police force would be there.

It's just all of human life was around you.

And I can't explain to anyone who hasn't surfed what that feeling is of nature giving you a ride from somewhere out in the ocean towards the shoreline.