Jason Bateman
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They say, and there's this great line, I just saw the movie Jay Kelly, which is pretty good.
George Clooney says, you know, that he spent his whole life trying to get something that he thought he really wanted and then he got it and then he realized, oh, wait, it's not over.
You know, it's like, so no matter where you are, even if you think you're there, you still got to work on trying to keep it if you care to.
Well, do you feel that – because we do this thing where we're playing people and I think all four of us are interested in playing people that don't have it all together, people that are somewhat broken in an interesting way and vulnerable and human and have flaws and all that stuff.
And have you felt like you've – we're talking about as we get older, we get better, right?
So do you think that that's at odds with playing characters that don't have it all together?
Like as we're starting to get our shit together as we get older, it's sort of at odds with playing characters that are a little bit broken.
And then, in fact, as you get more and more successful, maybe, as we were joking about earlier, you kind of get a little bit soft because things are sort of privileged around you and luxurious and stuff.