Jason Bateman

The first job that I remember was my acting class went and my acting class put on a night of one acts.

And I decided to adapt this Charles Bukowski short story called The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, California.

Sure.

Sure.

As one does.

Yeah.

So in this story, these two guys, kind of unemployed guys, watch the hearse unload at the Venice morgue.

This is not a true kind of geographical thing, but they can see it from the beach.

And they know the timing of it.

They know when the guys are going to come around.

They know when the body is going to be unattended and they're going to steal a body.

so they do they steal a body and they you know and here's where you know it's Bukowski and it's like the logic kind of fails you but they open it up and it's a beautiful woman and I decide I'm gonna have sex with her and then I'm so ashamed of myself that I forced my buddy to have sex with her

Are you sure you have this on your wall, Sean?

I'm not sure.

No, no, no.

You should see the poster.

It's bizarre.

So then I said, we go, what are we going to do to the body?

I don't know.

I swim her out to the ocean to get rid of the body.