Jason Bateman

I think something more stable, definitely.

But the bug had bit, really, and it was very much to do with watching them in their prime doing...

doing what they did.

And, you know, I remember my dad in a cast of Noises Off, this amazing Michael Frame play that's about... It's a farce within a farce.

It's this amazingly kaleidoscopic, brilliant examination of a British tradition of comedy, which obviously you guys know, called farce.

My mum was doing the real thing, and even the real farces that were...

Very double entendre heavy, very misogynistic and homophobic at times as well to the point I said, Mom, you really can't do another play where you walk into a room where your husband is having his pants pulled down by his male PA and it looks like fellatio.

Whereas in fact, he's just trying to give him a quick change and he's stuck up.

I can't be your son and call myself proud if you keep doing this.

But I do remember perversely to that embarrassment, sort of sitting in the wings and watching her go through and just be mum and sort of chatting to me and saying hello to the SM and then just kind of opening the door in this light and heat and noise of what was happening in front.

Of those flats hitting her and her just transforming just in the blink of an eye.

And I thought, what is that?

What just happened to my mom?

Where did she go?

And yeah, I kind of got a taste for that.

And as an only child, I think you're kind of already locked in a bit to quite a solitary, imaginary universe.

Numerous occasions.

I'm too old to really remember.

It's still today, exactly.

Right, for all of us.