Jason Bateman
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Podcast Appearances
No, I, for a while there, I kind of thought, oh, no, I'm going to, if there's some kind of a stunt, I want to do it.
And then a stunt coordinator took me aside one day and he said, hey, guy, I know you're trying to do the right thing for camera and everything by having it be your face, but you know you're taking money out of this guy's pocket over here.
He was just standing on the set ready to double you.
So if you just sit there and try to be a hero, this guy's trying to make a living too.
oh so uh i i learned that lesson early on liam i'm sure you learned it way before and it's gonna make you look good exactly yeah it's gonna make you look good yeah on top of it all yeah yeah so uh when will it's kind of said that you guys uh on nut jobs up you've got to look for some of those jobs sometimes that are nice and cushy maybe just with a microphone preferably like a like an animated film but
Uh, even if it's on camera, maybe some sort of nice domestic, uh, you know, dramedy or something?
Yeah, but I don't get to kill people, you know?
You can have a dream sequence right in the middle of, like, a Thanksgiving dinner, you know?
Now, speaking of people that are unprofessional and can't keep it together, Laura Linney, your friend.
Boy, we finally got through that show.
How have you managed to stay friends with somebody that undisciplined and untalented for so many years?