Jason Bateman
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So, I mean, to do... Listener, you know, doing a film as an actor is a three-month... So if you did four, I mean, that's working 12 months a year, every year for 25 years.
So there at 24, who was the Liam Neeson for you at 24?
Who were you looking at and going, my God, if I could have a career that lasts that long and hold that amount of relevance that long and be at the top of my game at that age, now that I'm 24, I hope to be that age and doing that.
Who was that North Star for you at that point?
Who was the big shot in the National Theatre at that point?
Does it go back too far to say John Gielgud?
Was Albert Finney doing work in the National Theatre at the time?
Yearning for a nice little one act.
How do you even prepare an audition to play Jesus?
I mean, practicing your faces in the mirror playing Jesus Christ.
I would not really know where to go.
You just reminded me there, I had a vision of, Will, didn't you play Jesus Christ unarrested for one of your illusions?
Didn't Job had some sort of a religious-themed illusion?
And I remember you in some sort of a loincloth.
And you ate nothing but plums and turnips for a few weeks just to prepare for that scene, right?