"Julia Roberts"

This week it’s one of the greats: Julia Roberts. Selling shoes, love letters, a weatherman on Donahue, and the mystery elves that are insurance. “Abandonment can be funny!” …on an all-new SmartLess.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Sean Hayes?

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• 1:59Sean Hayes?

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• 2:41Will Arnett?

  All right, so we're here, are we?

• 2:43Sean Hayes?

  We want to do a cold open?

• 2:46Will Arnett?

  Did you say bowl open?

• 2:47Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I said bowl open.

• 2:48Will Arnett?

  Oh, you're trying to do like a shameless post thing about the Hollywood Bowl, that we're gonna be at the Hollywood Bowl?

• 2:53Sean Hayes?

  On November 15th, yeah.

• 2:54Will Arnett?

  On November 15th? Oh, you think that I'm gonna sit here and do a cold open that's just a shameless plug of Smartless Live at the Hollywood Bowl on November 15th? Sean, get a grip. I'm not gonna do it. Tickets are on sale now, you want me to say that? You want me to say smartless.com/live? You want me to say that, Sean?

• 3:11Sean Hayes?

  Well, no, I didn't want to, I wasn't saying you should say any of that.

• 3:13Will Arnett?

  No, I'm just saying it's gross. It's gross. Cause then I'm sitting here and I'm going, "Smartless Live at the Hollywood Bowl, November 15th, you know, tickets on sale now at smartless.com/live." Gross, dude. Gross.

• 3:26Sean Hayes?

  I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

• 3:28Will Arnett?

  Okay, just don't insult me again. Smartless Live, November 15th. Let's go to the show.

• 3:32Sean Hayes?

  Also, welcome to Smartless.

• 3:33Will Arnett?

  Yeah, obviously that.

• 3:49Speaker 03

  Smartless.

• 3:52Sean Hayes?

  Oh, Willie, where are you?

• 3:53Jason Bateman?

  Is this, uh, New York City?

• 3:55Will Arnett?

  It's my new place in New York, yeah.

• 3:56Jason Bateman?

  Do you love it?

• 3:56Sean Hayes?

  What do you mean, you got, you got a place?

• 3:58Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 3:59Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's amazing.

• 4:00Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 4:01Sean Hayes?

  Where are you, are you doing press, Willie, for your movie?

• 4:04Will Arnett?

  No, no, I'm just, uh, not yet, I'm about to, but I'm just getting sort of sorted here in my place.

• 4:09Sean Hayes?

  Sure, you might be seeing a friend. Oh, look, he's got a dollar bill.

• 4:13Jason Bateman?

  So...

• 4:14Sean Hayes?

  Oh, he's got a gambling issue.

• 4:15Will Arnett?

  I've got a head gambling.

• 4:16Jason Bateman?

  He likes to be as close to Atlantic City as possible.

• 4:19Sean Hayes?

  Without going.

• 4:20Jason Bateman?

  Uh huh.

• 4:22Sean Hayes?

  Wait, how are you? How is everybody doing? We haven't seen each other in so, in like two weeks.

• 4:26Jason Bateman?

  I know, I don't like it.

• 4:28Will Arnett?

  I saw JB last week a couple of times. We played golf and then we went to an event. We did a little charity work together.

• 4:34Jason Bateman?

  Oh yeah, Will did some, uh, some, some emceeing of a, a very special charity event. The Yes Charity.

• 4:41Will Arnett?

  Yes.

• 4:42Sean Hayes?

  What is that about?

• 4:43Will Arnett?

  It's our friend Eric Eisner's charity, the Young Eisner Scholars. It's a really great, actually look it up. Um, it's a very worthy cause and they identify, um, you know, kids from underserved communities who, who are really smart and helps guide them.

• 4:57Jason Bateman?

  Might not otherwise have access to funds for higher education. Or for secondary education.

• 5:03Will Arnett?

  Mm-hmm.

• 5:04Jason Bateman?

  However you call it. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

• 5:06Sean Hayes?

  That is nice. I was part of the TAG group when I was a kid. It was called, it stood for Talented and Gifted. And I couldn't do math, couldn't do anything. Don't know why I was in there.

• 5:15Jason Bateman?

  I'd love to just, kind of just send it out to the group there, just freestyle on that acronym there.

• 5:20Sean Hayes?

  I know.

• 5:21Jason Bateman?

  Will, uh, wanna try a shot at that acronym?

• 5:26Will Arnett?

  I mean, I do.

• 5:28Sean Hayes?

  T A G, yeah, go ahead.

• 5:29Will Arnett?

  I do, I mean...

• 5:31Sean Hayes?

  Go ahead.

• 5:31Jason Bateman?

  No, let's not. Now...

• 5:33Sean Hayes?

  Talented and Gay, is that what it is?

• 5:34Jason Bateman?

  No!

• 5:35Will Arnett?

  No!

• 5:35Jason Bateman?

  Sean!

• 5:36Sean Hayes?

  Oh, okay.

• 5:37Will Arnett?

  Oh, you think I'm gonna say tight-ass gays?

• 5:41Jason Bateman?

  He doesn't take cheap shots.

• 5:43Will Arnett?

  I'm not taking a cheap shot, dude. No thanks, I'm not walking into your bullshit.

• 5:47Sean Hayes?

  Oh, did Will just get a coffee from someone special?

• 5:50Will Arnett?

  I might have.

• 5:51Jason Bateman?

  Was that the, uh, is it the chef that just brought you some, um... Today she is.

• 5:57Will Arnett?

  Today she is.

• 5:59Jason Bateman?

  Uh, you know, everybody is so excited about your new love, Willie.

• 6:03Sean Hayes?

  Wait, I gotta tell you one thing really quick. Yesterday, we visited Sean Levy, our friend Sean Levy on the set of Star Wars yesterday.

• 6:09Jason Bateman?

  Oh my god. Did you guys even get to sleep last night?

• 6:11Sean Hayes?

  No, it was incredible. Look at...

• 6:13Will Arnett?

  Are you gonna be able to do the show with a boner?

• 6:17Jason Bateman?

  You're an hour nineteen of that boner?

• 6:21Jason Bateman?

  You're lightsaber?

• 6:22Sean Hayes?

  Who needs Viagra?

• 6:24Will Arnett?

  The people from Viagra called and they're like, hey, can we take your blood because we need to know?

• 6:28Jason Bateman?

  Let me see that picture again.

• 6:29Will Arnett?

  Let me see that photo again.

• 6:30Sean Hayes?

  Well, you can't, you can't post it.

• 6:33Jason Bateman?

  Right, this is Sean and Scotty.

• 6:35Sean Hayes?

  That's the new droid in the new, in the new film.

• 6:36Jason Bateman?

  Wow, how do they let you get a picture of that?

• 6:38Sean Hayes?

  Well, we went to go to the creature shop.

• 6:40Will Arnett?

  And you promised that you wanted to show anybody.

• 6:42Sean Hayes?

  Right, listen to this.

• 6:46Sean Hayes?

  Remember, it's a trap. And Scotty, look at Scotty's making Admiral Ackbar move. Isn't that wild?

• 6:51Jason Bateman?

  No, that's weird that he's remembering a line of dialogue from, oh my God, he's making the mouth.

• 6:57Sean Hayes?

  Return of the Jedi. Yeah, look at that.

• 6:59Jason Bateman?

  Oh my God, you guys, that must have been like best day ever.

• 7:02Sean Hayes?

  It was incre- it was un- and Sean Levy, of course, is the greatest.

• 7:05Jason Bateman?

  The nicest guy.

• 7:06Sean Hayes?

  Jay, you, Jason, you would do so well at directing one of those movies. I don't know why.

• 7:10Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, well, let him know, Sean.

• 7:13Will Arnett?

  Let him know.

• 7:14Jason Bateman?

  All right, let's get. Thanks, Mom.

• 7:18Sean Hayes?

  I love my mom once said, you know what, you should, you should call Steven Spielberg and let him know you'd like to work with them. I was like, ah, what a great idea.

• 7:26Will Arnett?

  I know, I love stuff like that. How come you don't work with better? I remember somebody, somebody who, who we know, who, but years ago, and she said that another person we know who is very famous said to her like, you know, you should work with the greats and the Scorsese. And then she was like, oh, okay. Well, just give me their number.

• 7:46Sean Hayes?

  Sign up like the.

• 7:47Will Arnett?

  Why didn't I think of that?

• 7:48Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you're right.

• 7:51Sean Hayes?

  Listen, speaking of one of the greats, guys.

• 7:54Will Arnett?

  I love greats.

• 7:55Sean Hayes?

  My guest today had quite the historic beginning. I just wrote this last night.

• 7:59Jason Bateman?

  No, I can tell.

• 7:59Sean Hayes?

  When she was born, Martin Luther King Jr. And his wife, Coretta, paid the hospital bill.

• 8:04Jason Bateman?

  What?

• 8:05Sean Hayes?

  Didn't know this until I looked it up. She grew up in Georgia playing the clarinet in the school band, which I loved learning about. After graduation, she moved to New York, sold running shoes. Guess what? Chased an acting dream. On a film set 30 years ago, she picked up knitting, hasn't put the needles down since. Her kids once asked her if she was more famous than Taylor Swift. These days, she's happiest at her ranch in New Mexico. You could call her an Oscar winner, you could call her America's sweetheart, you could call her my sweetheart, but today, I'll just call her the brilliant and always.

• 8:32Jason Bateman?

  Julia Roberts.

• 8:32Sean Hayes?

  Julia Roberts.

• 8:33Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I got it.

• 8:33Will Arnett?

  Oh, my God.

• 8:34Jason Bateman?

  Julia Roberts.

• 8:38Jason Bateman?

  Hello, Julia.

• 8:40Speaker 04

  Hi, guys.

• 8:41Jason Bateman?

  That's so cute. She's wearing a firefighter, uh, uniform, folks.

• 8:45Speaker 04

  It's Boy Scouts.

• 8:47Jason Bateman?

  Oh, Boy Scouts.

• 8:47Will Arnett?

  It's Boy Scouts.

• 8:48Sean Hayes?

  Oh, it is Boy Scouts?

• 8:49Jason Bateman?

  I did a little Boy Scouts.

• 8:51Will Arnett?

  Julia Roberts, hi.

• 8:52Jason Bateman?

  How cool that you're doing this show.

• 8:54Speaker 04

  Thank you, Sean, for that, for that intro.

• 8:57Sean Hayes?

  All my, all my research?

• 8:59Speaker 04

  It was sort of like a haiku about one's grandmother or something. The clarinet and knitting, I was like, oh my god.

• 9:05Sean Hayes?

  Wait, I didn't know you played the clarinet and the oboe. Those are two of the, those are the two hardest instruments.

• 9:10Will Arnett?

  Wait a second, you don't want to get into Martin Luther King paid for the hospital bill?

• 9:13Jason Bateman?

  I was gonna get there, too. So let's start with that. Martin Luther King paid the bill, why?

• 9:18Sean Hayes?

  They were friends with your parents.

• 9:19Speaker 04

  Yes, and my, and I, and I, not knowing the state of my, um, family's financial, uh, situation as a brand new born baby, I guess they were maybe just gonna have to smuggle me out in the middle of the night. And so this, this made it we could go out the front door.

• 9:39Jason Bateman?

  I'm gonna, uh, I'm gonna sound dumber than usual.

• 9:42Will Arnett?

  Boy, this is gonna be a stretch. Okay, good.

• 9:45Jason Bateman?

  What is the bill for having a baby? In a, like, what, there, isn't that usually covered by your-

• 9:50Will Arnett?

  In 1975.

• 9:52Jason Bateman?

  Right, like, but isn't, it's not-

• 9:53Speaker 04

  Thanks, my new favorite, Will Arnett.

• 9:56Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, he's slick.

• 9:58Speaker 04

  Yeah, you've got kids, you know, this is not, these are not cheap endeavors.

• 10:01Will Arnett?

  He's so out of touch, he has no luck.

• 10:03Jason Bateman?

  But SAGs, but the, my Screen Actors Guild insurance. Wait, but isn't it all paid by the mystery elves that, that are insurance? Isn't that, that, that, they're the same people that do the laundry, right?

• 10:16Will Arnett?

  Julia, welcome to Smartless, welcome to, guys. Jason, I love you so much for this.

• 10:21Speaker 04

  But you know what's amazing is I am such a Jason Bateman fan and this up close exchange now, though we've seen each other in person, we've never, I'm like really just like staring at you right now and you can't even tell and I'm-

• 10:34Jason Bateman?

  I could spend years with you. You're the greatest.

• 10:37Speaker 04

  Do you know the first Bateman I ever truly loved is your mom?

• 10:42Jason Bateman?

  Oh, my mom?

• 10:43Speaker 04

  Your mom, I, when I met your mom-

• 10:46Jason Bateman?

  On a plane?

• 10:46Speaker 04

  She is just-

• 10:49Speaker 04

  Like, she's just such a, you just, she just has sparks that kind of shoot off. She's so beautiful and so sweet and the accent and the whole thing and just-

• 10:59Jason Bateman?

  The whole British accent. She nailed it.

• 11:01Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:02Jason Bateman?

  Now, was she, cause she was a flight attendant for Pan Am. Did you meet her on a plane?

• 11:05Speaker 04

  I mean, that just adds to the allure of her.

• 11:09Jason Bateman?

  With the bowler hat and everything?

• 11:10Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:11Jason Bateman?

  Or was it on set of Satisfaction?

• 11:13Speaker 04

  Yeah. It was on Satisfaction. Yeah.

• 11:16Sean Hayes?

  Wait, why was your mom on the set of Satisfaction?

• 11:18Jason Bateman?

  Cause I guess Justine wasn't yet 18 maybe, or was she, or was my mom just there visiting maybe? So Julia was in a movie with my sister Justine way back when.

• 11:25Speaker 04

  It was before we were on location. We were in Los Angeles for a long time. Cause I came out to California and I was probably there for like, at least three weeks before we went on location. Cause we had all that band practice, you see.

• 11:40Jason Bateman?

  So cringey.

• 11:41Speaker 04

  If only I could have played the clarinet in that movie.

• 11:48Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, why not? Will does a great horn, horn player.

• 11:52Will Arnett?

  Eric, Eric clarinet.

• 11:53Jason Bateman?

  Eric clarinet, just making sure the reed is nice and wet.

• 11:56Sean Hayes?

  Nice and wet and then getting the spit out.

• 11:58Will Arnett?

  I only do it to the theme song of Law and Order.

• 12:00Jason Bateman?

  Oh, right.

• 12:03Will Arnett?

  Then I wet the reed as I'm waiting to flip the page.

• 12:07Sean Hayes?

  Scotty does that too, all the time. You ever let the spit out at the bottom?

• 12:11Will Arnett?

  So dumb.

• 12:11Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, careful.

• 12:12Speaker 04

  Spit valves.

• 12:13Jason Bateman?

  Alright, so, uh, wait, where were we? So we were, Martin Luther King paid the, played the, paid the bill. I mean, that's just incredible.

• 12:20Sean Hayes?

  Isn't that wild?

• 12:21Jason Bateman?

  That's incredible, yeah.

• 12:22Sean Hayes?

  Right. And I mean, how, how did they know each other, Julia?

• 12:26Speaker 04

  My parents had a theater school and the King kids went to that school.

• 12:35Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow.

• 12:35Speaker 04

  And so then my parents became friends with them and-

• 12:39Sean Hayes?

  That's amazing.

• 12:40Jason Bateman?

  So the King kids wanted to be actors?

• 12:43Speaker 04

  I mean, I, I think one of them, and again, this is, I'm reaching back into my first days of life, but as I recall, I think one of them did have maybe some acting aspirations, but it was more than anything, I think it was just sort of, you know, hobbyist, after school, weekend kind of thing to do with your kids.

• 13:08Will Arnett?

  Wait, so your, your parents ran a theater school? Or like a theater, Sean, imagine the stories they, the theater stories.

• 13:16Jason Bateman?

  I can't even.

• 13:17Will Arnett?

  Sean is going crazy now.

• 13:18Jason Bateman?

  Oh, he loves a good theater story.

• 13:19Will Arnett?

  Sean loves a theater story.

• 13:20Jason Bateman?

  Well, Julie, you've done a lot of great theater. You have any, like, anybody ever have a heart attack in the crowd? Let's just get right to it. He usually saves these winners for the end.

• 13:29Speaker 04

  No, well, I have an opening night story that is pretty good, but it, it's, might be long, maybe it's better.

• 13:36Jason Bateman?

  We've got 45 minutes left.

• 13:38Will Arnett?

  Never too long.

• 13:39Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 13:40Speaker 04

  Well, so I did a play with Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd.

• 13:45Jason Bateman?

  I saw this one, this one with the rain, the rain, yes? What a cast! I was there. Ah, bravissimo! I was there.

• 13:52Speaker 04

  It did, it rained inside the theater, which was great for everyone but the people in the front row, which we discovered they were all kind of being pelted, but so...

• 14:04Will Arnett?

  Like, didn't, didn't, Julie, didn't every, every day someone would go like, "Oh my God, I'm wet!" It's like, well, yeah, that's the...

• 14:10Jason Bateman?

  Congrats, you got front row seats.

• 14:11Speaker 04

  Well, I don't think you go to the theater thinking that the rain in the show is going to get on you. I wouldn't think that.

• 14:18Jason Bateman?

  No, right.

• 14:19Speaker 04

  But, you know, we had rehearsed this play, as you guys know, it go, right, it, it goes on and on and on forever, and then it just, all you want to do is just start the thing. The opening night comes and...

• 14:33Speaker 04

  Nerves are high, just even thinking about it, I'm getting a little short of breath. And uh.

• 14:39Jason Bateman?

  You're your beta blocker.

• 14:40Speaker 04

  Yeah, so the play starts, Paul's on stage by himself and it's his apartment set and there's just this sort of like bare mattress, you know, apartment in New York and he's reading this, he's thumbing through this book and then there's a knock at the door. Open the door and it's his sister, played by yours truly, clarinet player. And I come in and he's, what's in his hand is our father's diary that he's just found and he's been reading it and he's crazed and he's manic over what he's discovered and, and he's talking about it and he's talking about it and he, and he tosses it on the bed as he has done 9,458 times in rehearsal.

• 15:21Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 15:22Speaker 04

  And this book skitters across the mattress, hits the front of the stage and into the aisle.

• 15:29Sean Hayes?

  No way.

• 15:31Jason Bateman?

  No way.

• 15:31Speaker 04

  Which is fine for the next four and a half minutes until I say, but.

• 15:39Jason Bateman?

  And you gotta open it.

• 15:40Speaker 04

  Look at this.

• 15:41Sean Hayes?

  Right, right, right.

• 15:42Speaker 04

  Or Paul says, Paul says it, he picks it up.

• 15:46Speaker 04

  And so we keep going, but we're looking at each other like, this has never happened before. What happens when this happens because this has never happened before. Meanwhile, someone working on the show who has seen this happen sort of commando crawls down the aisle and says to the man in the front row, sir, you know, pick that up and just put it on the stage. And the man's like, what, huh, what? Paul and I are acting our little hearts out, pick, just, just pick it up, put it on the

• 16:11Jason Bateman?

  Look how excited Sean is, this is one of the great stories.

• 16:14Speaker 04

  So the man picks it up and he kind of like, doesn't quite know, I mean, I wouldn't want to touch a prop or, you know, and he puts it on the stage at the exact, you couldn't have planned it better, at the exact moment that Paul goes, no, I'll read it to you. And he picks it up.

• 16:31Sean Hayes?

  Ah, that's great.

• 16:32Speaker 04

  At the second, and then Paul, being the amazing human being that he is.

• 16:37Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 16:38Speaker 04

  Just turns and looks at the man, he goes, thank you. And everybody in the audience, you could just feel, everybody just let out their breath that we didn't realize we were holding and we sort of went on for there.

• 16:49Jason Bateman?

  This is the magic of theater, you know?

• 16:52Sean Hayes?

  I want to get back to the beginning, Julia, because I did all this research and it was, you know, you think you know somebody and then you actually do read about them. You're like, oh, I didn't know.

• 17:00Speaker 04

  And then you realize, wow, nothing that I've read is actually factual.

• 17:05Jason Bateman?

  We believe in media.

• 17:07Sean Hayes?

  So, wait, so when you were a kid, you wanted, so you played the clarinet, we covered that. You were a vet, you sold shoes.

• 17:13Jason Bateman?

  We really haven't covered that. I'm gonna get double back on that.

• 17:15Speaker 04

  I was a doctor. Did you hear? He goes, you were a vet and you sold shoes?

• 17:19Sean Hayes?

  No, you wanted to be a veterinarian of pets. I didn't know that. That's so cool.

• 17:23Jason Bateman?

  Well, wait, how old were you before the vet thing went away? Because doesn't, every kid wants to be a vet.

• 17:28Speaker 04

  I think everybody does. I was in the 4H Club. I mean, like, I thought this was great. And it wasn't until I discovered that I don't really have a mind for science.

• 17:39Sean Hayes?

  Right, right, right, yeah.

• 17:40Speaker 04

  I just wanted to do the petting and the, you know, I could take out a toothbrush and put some mange medicine on if necessary, but I didn't want to do the surgeries.

• 17:50Jason Bateman?

  What was the most involved thing you've ever done with an animal? Like, have you milked a cow? Have you changed horseshoes?

• 17:55Speaker 04

  I've milked a cow. I have not changed, I've watched the ferrier do it, but I've not done it myself.

• 18:02Jason Bateman?

  What's it called? A ferrier?

• 18:03Speaker 04

  A ferrier.

• 18:04Jason Bateman?

  See, I would lose that on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I wouldn't know what that name is.

• 18:08Speaker 04

  You could call me.

• 18:09Jason Bateman?

  I could call you.

• 18:10Sean Hayes?

  You would know.

• 18:11Will Arnett?

  Oh, my God, she'd be your security caller, whatever. I'd like to call Julia Roberts.

• 18:18Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 18:19Will Arnett?

  That'd be so good.

• 18:21Jason Bateman?

  Well, how, when did the acting, when did you say, yeah, no, screw veterinarian, I want to be an actor?

• 18:28Speaker 04

  I mean, I don't know that I had that kind of moment where I thought, this is the path I want my life to take. I mean, my parents were artists. I have an older brother and sister. They were, they're artists. My sister was going to the Neighborhood Playhouse when I moved to New York and moved in with her. And that's when I was working at the Athletes' Foot on 72nd and Broadway, right by the Ray's Popeye and Popeyes.

• 18:58Jason Bateman?

  No way.

• 18:59Sean Hayes?

  That's great.

• 19:00Speaker 04

  And I worked there for a while. And I think it was just realizing that college was not going to be in the cards for me and...

• 19:11Speaker 04

  I didn't really know what I was gonna do. I mean, I had moved to New York really just because I wanted to be back with my sister because she had been gone for two years and we were so close and I missed her and I-

• 19:23Jason Bateman?

  Gone from Georgia?

• 19:24Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 19:25Will Arnett?

  But you were like, you were thinking, what, that you were just gonna go to New York and something was gonna happen, something different was gonna-

• 19:31Jason Bateman?

  I don't wanna embarrass you, but was modeling a pole at all?

• 19:36Speaker 04

  I did get called in to a couple of agencies and there was an agency called Click Models. God, I completely forgot about this. You have jogged a piece of the puzzle out of my-

• 19:48Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, let's get into it.

• 19:50Speaker 04

  And I did go meet a really nice woman there and-

• 19:54Jason Bateman?

  Wait, flick and click, wasn't it flick and click?

• 19:57Speaker 04

  I don't think so.

• 19:59Jason Bateman?

  No?

• 19:59Speaker 04

  That doesn't sound good at all.

• 20:00Sean Hayes?

  I think that's something else, yeah.

• 20:01Jason Bateman?

  No, no, no, I think it was. I actually think it was.

• 20:04Speaker 04

  No, it was click modeling, click like a camera click. There's no flicking.

• 20:08Jason Bateman?

  Click and flick, so I swear to God, anyway.

• 20:11Will Arnett?

  I think that's a massage, okay.

• 20:15Will Arnett?

  So, wait, so Julia, but really to answer the question, you weren't like, okay, I'm leaving Georgia now, I'm gonna be an actor, so I'm moving to New York. You were going because your sister was there and you just thought-

• 20:26Sean Hayes?

  But Eric had already been working, no?

• 20:28Speaker 04

  He's 11 years older than I am, so he was, he had a career-

• 20:33Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 20:33Speaker 04

  -by the time I graduated from high school. But to answer your question, everybody was sort of leaving home to go to school-

• 20:40Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 20:40Speaker 04

  -and I did not want to be like, okay, I'll see you guys when you get back.

• 20:46Will Arnett?

  Right. Right.

• 20:47Speaker 04

  Right here, in my mom's apartment, nobody worry.

• 20:50Jason Bateman?

  What about college? You said college wasn't a thing for you, why was that? Because it wasn't for me either.

• 20:55Speaker 04

  It wasn't financially feasible and I certainly didn't have the grades for any kind of a scholarship and-

• 21:03Jason Bateman?

  Should've called the King family.

• 21:05Speaker 04

  I'd relied on them once already. I just felt like I didn't want them to have to support me the whole way around.

• 21:12Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. And were you to study something in college at that age, had the veterinary thing had gone, had passed?

• 21:21Speaker 04

  Had gone.

• 21:21Sean Hayes?

  Right?

• 21:22Speaker 04

  I think I probably would, at that time, because you have to remember, this is 1985, I graduated from high school, and I probably would have wanted to be a home economics teacher.

• 21:36Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow.

• 21:36Speaker 04

  Something I'm happy to bring back into the school system now, if asked.

• 21:41Sean Hayes?

  What's a home, what does that mean, home economics? What does that mean?

• 21:45Speaker 04

  So many things. I'm glad you asked.

• 21:48Will Arnett?

  Uh oh, here we go, here we go.

• 21:50Sean Hayes?

  Well, I'm an idiot. I don't know what that is.

• 21:52Speaker 04

  No, it was such a great class because it covered, it was like, yeah, sewing, but it was like sewing, mending, it was practical things. You learn how to write a check, you learn how to sew on a button, you learn how to iron a shirt, you learn-

• 22:05Sean Hayes?

  Is that where you learn knitting?

• 22:06Speaker 04

  Make it, no, that, I learned, I learned how to knit from the standby painter on the Pelican brief. Eric Bart taught me how to knit.

• 22:15Sean Hayes?

  Wow, the standby painter, yeah. They got a lot of kit stuff right there.

• 22:23Sean Hayes?

  Right at your disposal. Oh, yeah, they got that, that bucket they sit on's got a bunch of stuff in there.

• 22:31Sean Hayes?

  We'll be right back.

• 22:35Sean Hayes?

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• 23:35Sean Hayes?

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• 24:11Sean Hayes?

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• 24:55Sean Hayes?

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• 25:14Sean Hayes?

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• 25:55Jason Bateman?

  And now, back to the show.

• 25:58Jason Bateman?

  Hey, I feel like I'm not a great parent for many reasons. One of them is that I haven't taught my kids how to iron, how to wash a window without getting streaks on it. How, like, my parents, like, I had 20 chores every weekend until the day I moved out when I was 18. Have you been good about teaching your kids? Like, do they know how to, like, iron a shirt without wrinkling the fabric that's underneath it? How to separate it over an ironing board and put the sleeve over the little wedge portion of the board? And like, all that stuff, like, you don't know it till you know it.

• 26:34Speaker 04

  You don't know it till you know it. Well, I would say there's a yes and a no here, because I feel like a lot of the things that I learned from my mom, I either learned, because like you, a long list of chores that started right when I got home from school.

• 26:49Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 26:50Speaker 04

  And paused only to watch the Mike Douglas show, and then right back to the chores.

• 26:55Jason Bateman?

  Sure. Mike Douglas, I love it.

• 26:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 26:59Jason Bateman?

  Phil Donahue.

• 27:00Speaker 04

  I mean...

• 27:01Will Arnett?

  JB, were you ever on the Mike Douglas show?

• 27:03Jason Bateman?

  No, no, I got bumped a couple times, but, uh, no, I'm kidding.

• 27:08Will Arnett?

  Did you?

• 27:08Jason Bateman?

  No.

• 27:09Speaker 04

  You couldn't possibly, even in your...

• 27:11Jason Bateman?

  I did do Merv Griffin, I did Oprah, um, what else?

• 27:16Speaker 04

  Phil Donahue?

• 27:17Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, never Phil Donahue.

• 27:19Sean Hayes?

  You know what, I slept with this guy.

• 27:21Jason Bateman?

  Uh-oh.

• 27:22Sean Hayes?

  In Chicago.

• 27:23Speaker 04

  Named Phil Donahue?

• 27:26Will Arnett?

  What a headline this is gonna be. Sean Hayes slept with Phil Donahue.

• 27:31Speaker 04

  Not B. Phil Donahue, A. Phil Donahue.

• 27:34Jason Bateman?

  Don't tell his wife.

• 27:35Will Arnett?

  Philip K. Donahue.

• 27:38Jason Bateman?

  No, I just slept with a guy once in Chicago, and then he ended up on the Phil Donahue show, because he was the Chicago, he was the Chicago weatherman that then did porn. It was so crazy.

• 27:47Will Arnett?

  Whoa.

• 27:48Speaker 04

  You just said so many things in one sentence.

• 27:52Sean Hayes?

  I know, isn't that crazy? I slept with him once, and I remember his name. And he was a Chicago weatherman on the TV. And then one day he was on Phil Donahue because he left that career and was a porn star. I was like, what? It was the craziest thing.

• 28:06Jason Bateman?

  Wait, you had no, you had no warning on this? You were just watching your Donahue like you do every day?

• 28:12Sean Hayes?

  Yep, that's it. There he is.

• 28:13Jason Bateman?

  And there's your guy, and he's on there because it was like a porn story that had gone wrong?

• 28:18Sean Hayes?

  No, it was, no, it was in America was like, wow, there's a gay person on television. That's it. Yeah, that was way before.

• 28:25Jason Bateman?

  Oh, Shawnee.

• 28:26Sean Hayes?

  Anyway, let's get back to you.

• 28:28Will Arnett?

  Let's get back.

• 28:28Jason Bateman?

  Everybody take a quick shower?

• 28:32Will Arnett?

  Julia, what I, what I don't know, and maybe Wikipedia can answer this, but I'd love to hear from you. What was the first, what was your first professional acting gig?

• 28:41Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 28:44Speaker 04

  Crime story.

• 28:47Jason Bateman?

  Precursor to Law and Order? Am I being a dummy?

• 28:50Speaker 04

  Dennis Farina, 1950s, Michael Mann TV show in Las Vegas. Dennis Farina, the nicest man you could imagine.

• 29:00Will Arnett?

  The great Dennis Farina.

• 29:02Speaker 04

  And...

• 29:04Jason Bateman?

  What was your, what was your character? Were you, were you, were you a damsel in distress? Or were you a bad person?

• 29:09Speaker 04

  I was a 15-year-old girl living with my mother, played by Hannah Cox, and her, I feel like, kind of newish husband. And he was maybe not being a good stepfather to me.

• 29:24Jason Bateman?

  No, Julia.

• 29:25Speaker 04

  If you catch my...

• 29:27Will Arnett?

  Yeah, catching your...

• 29:29Speaker 04

  I'm really bringing the mood down with this. This is no weatherman turned porn star story. But, yeah, so did that. And that was a great experience and, you know, but...

• 29:43Will Arnett?

  You were living in New York at the time? You got cast out of New York?

• 29:46Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 29:46Will Arnett?

  Okay, so it's a big, it was a big, it was exciting at the time, obviously.

• 29:51Speaker 04

  Oh, it was huge. It was, it was huge.

• 29:53Jason Bateman?

  So then you were able to sort of start, start your work and start to gain momentum before there was huge pressure on you to, to sort of pay a lot of rent and to really like declare this is what my career is going to be? You were still young enough to kind of like dip your toe in it and see if you get any traction? Is that kind of how things started?

• 30:15Speaker 04

  That sounds nice, the way you put all that. Let's, somebody jot that down. Well, you know what it is too?

• 30:21Will Arnett?

  He likes to bundle. He's bundling it.

• 30:24Speaker 04

  I'm, just to say, I met, there was an agent, I was with my brother and his girlfriend coming from dinner one night and, and, you know, they lived uptown and so they sort of ran into some people they knew and one of, one of the women they were chatting with was a talent agent and she, I don't know if she called my brother later or his girlfriend or something and said, oh, you know, does she act or, and she called me into her office and, and after a nice conversation, she said, well, I can't do anything for you, but I

• 31:08Speaker 04

  know someone who, who might be able to, you know, guide you here. And she sent me to meet this man called Bob McGowan, who was from Atlantic City and was dating the star of All My Children, Kim Delaney.

• 31:27Jason Bateman?

  Yes, I know.

• 31:28Speaker 04

  And he was just this, he seemed to me to be the nicest, most energetic guy with time and money to spare and he loved helping young people realize their dreams. I mean, you, I once went into, he became my manager. I once went into his office and said, Bob, I was at the Empire Diner today and there's this guy, he was our waiter and he wants to be an actor and I said, you've got to come meet Bob. No way. And he did and he signed him and that was Dylan Walsh.

• 32:04Jason Bateman?

  Oh my God, wow.

• 32:06Speaker 04

  Yeah. So Bob was just this kind of incredible man who just loved being the facilitator, you know, he just loved putting people together and, and that was kind of.

• 32:19Jason Bateman?

  A nice, early advocate and you stayed with him for a while?

• 32:23Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 32:24Jason Bateman?

  Yeah? And then what was then, the project that gave you the kind of momentum that would push you into sort of like, well, I, I need not pursue other things, I think this might work out for at least a few years?

• 32:38Speaker 04

  Mystic Pizza.

• 32:39Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 32:40Sean Hayes?

  Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 32:41Will Arnett?

  Mystic Pizza.

• 32:42Sean Hayes?

  Didn't you get, did you get nominated for that? Oh, no.

• 32:45Speaker 04

  No.

• 32:46Sean Hayes?

  Okay.

• 32:47Will Arnett?

  Way to go, Sean. You know, is there, and is...

• 32:51Speaker 04

  I did get nominated for Independent Spirit Award for Mystic Pizza.

• 32:54Sean Hayes?

  That's what you're thinking of, Sean, right? That's what he was thinking of.

• 32:58Speaker 04

  And I lost to Jodie Foster for Five Corners.

• 33:01Sean Hayes?

  All right.

• 33:01Will Arnett?

  Julie, was there, was there, again, I say this a lot, but at risk of embarrassing you, was there sort of Mystic Pizza, you know, crime story, then Mystic Pizza and everything, was there a kind of a life before Pretty Woman and life after Pretty Woman? Is that fair to say? It must have changed your life in a way.

• 33:22Speaker 04

  Well, I, you know, I kind of, it was a joke to start with, but it's actually completely true when people say, oh, you know, when Pretty Woman came out, did it, did it just completely change your life? And I said, well, I was out of town when it came out, which is the joke, but I was on location, shooting Sleeping With The Enemy.

• 33:45Sean Hayes?

  One of my faves.

• 33:47Speaker 04

  In this tiny little town, thank you, and it wasn't playing at the Sticky Shoe Theater where I was, and I remember one of the crew guys was reading USA Today, and he goes, "Hey, hey, your movie's in the paper." And it just kind of said, like, you know, box office, there was like a little square, and it said Pretty Woman, and it said what the box office was. Number meant nothing to me. I was like, hey, great. I mean, I didn't know if it was a great number, if it was a good number, if it was like...

• 34:19Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 34:21Speaker 04

  And, yeah, so in a way, it, the momentum of that moment passed me by a little bit, so I think I was probably spared.

• 34:31Sean Hayes?

  Well, you were also in work mode, and that helps as a distraction to that kind of stuff, right?

• 34:37Jason Bateman?

  Do you, do you long for those days of sort of the naivete and sort of just like, oh, just, just kind of just doing the work and having the fun and playing make believe and, and not being aware of sort of the machinations of this interesting business? Or you, or do you, do you like how complicated this business is?

• 34:58Speaker 04

  Is it complicated?

• 34:59Jason Bateman?

  Well, in certain areas, in the areas that are completely unpredictable and without any sort of meritocracy, I guess.

• 35:08Speaker 04

  I just feel like it's, there's so much more...

• 35:14Speaker 04

  Choice than we allow ourselves to believe. Like, I can choose to get super caught up in some of the things that really we have no control over.

• 35:27Speaker 04

  I have long given up reading anything.

• 35:31Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 35:32Speaker 04

  And, and I don't know. I don't know.

• 35:36Sean Hayes?

  You still just love doing it for what you're doing, right?

• 35:39Speaker 04

  It's so fun. I love it so much.

• 35:42Sean Hayes?

  You're so great at it.

• 35:43Speaker 04

  Such a goofy little job and...

• 35:45Will Arnett?

  I have a Google News alert on you, just don't worry. So I'm reading all your stuff for you. And you're, you're doing, you're fine.

• 35:51Speaker 04

  I'm listening and I'm reading and I'm...

• 35:54Sean Hayes?

  So when Steel, so, so you were filming Sleeping With The Enemy before Steel Magnolias?

• 35:59Speaker 04

  No, Steel Magnolias was first. So I filmed Steel Magnolias. I filmed Mystic Pizza and then I... Don't you have my IMDb? Help me.

• 36:09Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I know, but I want you to tell it.

• 36:11Speaker 04

  Then I did Mystic Pizza, then I did Steel Magnolias.

• 36:15Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 36:15Speaker 04

  Then I did Pretty Woman.

• 36:18Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 36:18Speaker 04

  Then I did Flatliners. Then I did Sleeping With The Enemy.

• 36:21Sean Hayes?

  And me, and then, you know, you know, the thing in Steel Magnolias, Scotty's diabetic. And when you had that scene, Scotty had a scene like that.

• 36:28Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 36:29Sean Hayes?

  In real life, and I had, I'd only watched Steel Magnolias like for the first time like

• 36:33Will Arnett?

  Saved his life.

• 36:34Sean Hayes?

  Seven, eight years ago.

• 36:35Will Arnett?

  Crazy.

• 36:36Sean Hayes?

  No.

• 36:37Speaker 04

  Thanks for the support.

• 36:38Sean Hayes?

  Just seven years ago. Oh, my God. I've seen Sleeping With The Enemy like 17 times. But I have, I've seen it a billion times. But, no, the, but that scene was so real.

• 36:50Will Arnett?

  So Scotty's flatlining, go ahead.

• 36:52Sean Hayes?

  That scene was so real when you had the diabetic thing. And, and when he was, when we first started dating, we've been together almost 20 years. And he would be, he would do... Let's go on to the next question. Good Lord.

• 37:04Jason Bateman?

  Well, I feel like you're circling the airport. You're about to take the landing gear down.

• 37:08Speaker 04

  Well, can I tell you, because you said, has any, has anything crazy ever happened during a play? But during screening of Steel Magnolias, there were a lot of reports of people having sort of like physical responses.

• 37:22Sean Hayes?

  To watching you do that?

• 37:23Speaker 04

  Reactions to, yeah.

• 37:25Sean Hayes?

  To that, yeah.

• 37:26Speaker 04

  People who are predisposed to these...

• 37:30Speaker 04

  Outbursts.

• 37:31Sean Hayes?

  It was wild.

• 37:32Will Arnett?

  Julia, I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna tell you a true story, truer than than Sean and Scotty. I guess, flatlining, watching, I don't know what happened, but.

• 37:40Sean Hayes?

  No, no, he, he almost died and it was, but he was going into that kind of shaking, kind of crazy thing. And he.

• 37:50Jason Bateman?

  Here we come. The landing gear is down. I think the landing gear is down.

• 37:53Sean Hayes?

  It's fine. It was just amazing how, it was amazing, amazing performance and how true to life that actually really was.

• 37:59Speaker 04

  Thank you, Sean. Thank you. I'm with you. Someone just told me that there's, I think, a smoothie place or something on Fire Island and they have a smoothie called Drink Your Juice Shelby.

• 38:09Sean Hayes?

  Ah, yeah, very good.

• 38:10Will Arnett?

  I wanna say, I wanna say.

• 38:11Jason Bateman?

  Will any Fire Island smoothie jokes?

• 38:16Speaker 04

  Hey, Jason.

• 38:18Jason Bateman?

  I'd just like to tee him up, you know?

• 38:21Will Arnett?

  I'm gonna say December 1991.

• 38:25Jason Bateman?

  Thank you, Mary Lou.

• 38:26Will Arnett?

  I'm in Stowe.

• 38:27Speaker 04

  Mary Lou Henner. I'm with you.

• 38:29Will Arnett?

  Vermont, skiing, skiing with my dad and my brother.

• 38:32Speaker 04

  Oh, I went to Stowe, Vermont.

• 38:33Will Arnett?

  And I saw you having breakfast in this little breakfast place. I just remembered that. I haven't thought about this in years. And you were with a bunch of people and you were having breakfast. And, uh, yeah.

• 38:44Speaker 04

  What did I eat?

• 38:45Will Arnett?

  Not for nothing.

• 38:46Sean Hayes?

  Wow, and mine was bad?

• 38:48Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, well, it just.

• 38:49Will Arnett?

  Mine was short.

• 38:49Sean Hayes?

  Great stories today.

• 38:50Will Arnett?

  Mine was short.

• 38:51Speaker 04

  That's true. Yeah, and I was only there one time, Stowe, Vermont.

• 38:55Will Arnett?

  The one time you were in Stowe, Vermont.

• 38:56Sean Hayes?

  There you go.

• 38:58Jason Bateman?

  Can we talk about, I think, I mean, your career is just incredible and enormous and something we can spend.

• 39:05Sean Hayes?

  And Aaron Bragavich, I mean.

• 39:06Jason Bateman?

  I wanna talk, to the extent you're comfortable, I think one of the greatest things in your life is your marriage. Like, it's been like forever and that's not common. And this guy is like a great guy, incredibly talented. I'm like, I really dork out over cinematographers. Can you, would you, are you comfortable talking about, like, is there, is there, is there a key, is there a secret? I mean, this is like a great success story.

• 39:34Sean Hayes?

  And, and how you met?

• 39:36Jason Bateman?

  Danny Motor, everybody.

• 39:37Speaker 04

  Danny Motor.

• 39:40Speaker 04

  Well, first let me just say this, is that he, I mean, I really liked your podcast. He loves this podcast.

• 39:49Jason Bateman?

  No, really?

• 39:49Speaker 04

  And I was trying

• 39:50Jason Bateman?

  Get him out here.

• 39:51Speaker 04

  To be on it without telling him, so that he would just like be tuning in and all of a sudden

• 39:58Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 39:58Speaker 04

  There's this old lady's voice, but it didn't

• 40:00Jason Bateman?

  That's nice.

• 40:01Speaker 04

  And he saw my agenda book and he was like, smartless.

• 40:04Jason Bateman?

  Well, we're fans of his.

• 40:04Sean Hayes?

  I love that. I remember seeing you at a charity event and you were with Danny and you just looked at him and you go, and you looked at me and you go, isn't he the best? I just love him. And it was so sweet. I just thought that was the sweetest.

• 40:17Jason Bateman?

  So cute, Julia. What's, what's the secret, darling?

• 40:20Speaker 04

  I know, I'm getting all sweaty. You know, it's really, you never

• 40:26Jason Bateman?

  You seem like your buddies. Yeah?

• 40:28Speaker 04

  Well, he's my best friend.

• 40:29Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, there you go.

• 40:30Speaker 04

  And, but also the only person I want to make out with. So I think it's that combination of things is

• 40:39Jason Bateman?

  Amen. Yeah.

• 40:40Speaker 04

  But you know what? Here's the thing, because you just don't know. And you never want to give all the credit away to one person and say, I owe it all to this one person. But honestly

• 40:51Jason Bateman?

  This is the section about Kevin Humvee? Here we go. I wanted to talk about Danny.

• 40:56Sean Hayes?

  For Tracy, he's an agent. He's a big agent in Hollywood.

• 40:59Speaker 04

  But 25 years later, I mean, I just think, gosh, my life could have gone off the rails 100 different ways in the last 25 years, were it not for finding my person. I don't know how, I don't know what small nation of people I saved in a former life, or

• 41:20Sean Hayes?

  I feel the same way, yeah.

• 41:22Jason Bateman?

  Did you, were you, did you guys work on a project together? Is that how you met?

• 41:25Speaker 04

  Yes, we met on a movie called The Mexican.

• 41:29Jason Bateman?

  Ah, yeah, yeah. Good looking movie.

• 41:31Sean Hayes?

  Mr. Pitt, yeah.

• 41:32Speaker 04

  And he was, he was on that movie and I

• 41:40Speaker 04

  They had been shooting for about three weeks. And he, God, what was he? He was the focus puller on that movie?

• 41:48Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 41:49Speaker 04

  And he and Brad were always next to each other and always talking.

• 41:55Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 41:55Sean Hayes?

  Brad Pitt from The Sister.

• 41:56Speaker 04

  So I come in and, and I'm like the new one and I'm like, you know, you know, they're talking about, I don't know, a new, you know, record that's come out or something. I'm like, oh, I, I love that.

• 42:11Jason Bateman?

  Trying to jump in there.

• 42:12Speaker 04

  I love that band. Oh, yeah. Like, or I'd kind of start humming it and be like,

• 42:17Jason Bateman?

  Music, yeah.

• 42:17Speaker 04

  Yeah, oh, yeah, I know. And they're just like so locked into each other. I was just looking for a way and the conversation.

• 42:27Speaker 04

  And not realizing that one day, this man that I was just trying to have a conversation with would be my husband.

• 42:34Sean Hayes?

  Wow.

• 42:34Jason Bateman?

  That's so cute. And then you finally, and then you finally had a conversation.

• 42:37Speaker 04

  We had a conversation and he has not gotten me to shut up in 20 years.

• 42:42Sean Hayes?

  I love that. I love that.

• 42:44Jason Bateman?

  The fact that you're able to, to schedule and work out all these kind of you go away, he goes away, let's meet up every couple of weeks. Like, it's gotta be just so difficult. I know, high class problems, listener, I apologize.

• 42:56Speaker 04

  These are high class problems, but you want to know something? We have in all these years, and we have three awesome kids. And only one time in our lives, and the kids were probably, they were all under five for sure, and now they're all in college. But there was one time when I was doing Eat, Pray, Love. And Danny was shooting a movie in Detroit. And we were apart-

• 43:30Jason Bateman?

  So you were in India, right?

• 43:31Speaker 04

  For seven weeks.

• 43:33Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow. That's long.

• 43:34Speaker 04

  And, I mean, I was lucky because I at least had the kids with me. But he, and there was just no way, even one time I did have three days off in a row. And I thought, oh, great, we can, you know. And even if I went as the crow flies from New Delhi to Detroit.

• 43:54Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 43:55Speaker 04

  It would, we could have hugged and I'd have to turn around. Like, it was so, it was seven weeks. And when he finished and he came and joined us and-

• 44:04Jason Bateman?

  Never again.

• 44:06Speaker 04

  We were just like, wow, that, that will never work.

• 44:10Jason Bateman?

  All right, you said the kids are in college now. How recent have you become an empty nester?

• 44:15Speaker 04

  Uh, it's been two and a half weeks.

• 44:17Jason Bateman?

  Oh, my God.

• 44:18Sean Hayes?

  Wow.

• 44:18Jason Bateman?

  So I just, I just sent my first one away, but it was just down the street to USC. So I'm, I'm happy about that. But I, I'm, I'm not anticipating doing well when the 13-year-old goes away in five years and being empty, empty. How are you doing?

• 44:32Speaker 04

  Yes, but you and your wife are crazy about each other. So it's all gonna be okay. I think it's when the kids leave and you turn around and you're like, ew, who are you? What are you still doing here?

• 44:42Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 44:43Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's when you run into troubles.

• 44:45Sean Hayes?

  You were supposed to go too, yeah.

• 44:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, like, are you still here?

• 44:49Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 44:50Sean Hayes?

  That's amazing. I love that you revealed in that, you know, you're the first cover star of the brand new 72 magazine, which is really cool. And you, and you revealed, George Clooney interviewed you, and you revealed your dream seven-person dinner guest list, which I love. And the first person you named was Danny, which is great.

• 45:06Jason Bateman?

  Wow, that's good.

• 45:06Sean Hayes?

  And, um, and Jesus, and Virginia Woolf, and Joni Mitchell. It was a great list. I loved it.

• 45:12Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, it's so funny because whenever someone asks you a question like that and, and you have to, you know, rapid-fire answer and you feel like, and then afterwards you go like, oh, that'd be a good dinner party. And then, of course, for the rest of the day, it's like, oh, but what, oh, it should have been this person and what about that person?

• 45:28Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 45:29Speaker 04

  Um, but I think I did, I think, I mean, wouldn't it, Jesus coming to dinner, right?

• 45:35Jason Bateman?

  Well, would I ask him? What, what would I ask him today? You know, versus like last year or something? Uh, George would be a good guest at that, right?

• 45:45Speaker 04

  George Clooney?

• 45:46Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, the guy can talk.

• 45:47Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 45:48Jason Bateman?

  Very good storyteller.

• 45:49Speaker 04

  Great storyteller.

• 45:50Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, he told us that classic about crapping in the cat box.

• 45:53Speaker 04

  Oh, my, it's, it's one of the greatest stories of all time.

• 45:56Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 45:56Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that is, and I hadn't heard it until he came on the podcast. It was great.

• 46:01Speaker 04

  But even better than hearing George tell it is Richard telling it because of voice. Richard's voice is so...

• 46:08Jason Bateman?

  Oh, Katie!

• 46:09Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 46:11Sean Hayes?

  He's great. I love that guy.

• 46:15Jason Bateman?

  And we will be right back.

• 46:19Sean Hayes?

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• 48:04Speaker 05

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• 48:29Speaker 05

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• 48:36Jason Bateman?

  And now, back to the show.

• 48:39Sean Hayes?

  Wait, so I read that you saved a seven-page love letter from Danny to someday show your kids? And have you showed your kids?

• 48:46Speaker 04

  I, that's the first letter he ever wrote me. But I have all the letters. And in fact, someone gave us a great present many years ago. These two beautiful, sort of ceramic earthen pots. And the lid on one pot inside is painted, um, love letters to Julia from Danny. And the other one is to Danny from Julia. And so there's all these, like, we're just shoving stuff in there for years. There's just no telling what's at the bottom of these jars.

• 49:18Sean Hayes?

  Right.

• 49:21Speaker 04

  But yeah, we are, uh, we're big on paper in our house. And our, our kids are now too. So it's nice to, like, I opened a book the other day. There was a post-it from my oldest son in the handwriting of maybe like a seven-year-old, which is not too dissimilar from his handwriting now, but I could see the time. And it just said, "Mom, I'm so, so, so, so, so, so sorry."

• 49:51Speaker 04

  What did I do? And I thought, oh, I wish I had written on the other side of the post-it like what the, what the, what the grievance was.

• 50:01Sean Hayes?

  Other than your wedding day and the birth of your gorgeous children, if you could pick one year to relive, what would it be? Because it was so great.

• 50:11Speaker 04

  Because it was so great?

• 50:13Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. I love that. Somebody just asked me that the other day.

• 50:17Speaker 04

  A whole year.

• 50:18Jason Bateman?

  Sean's coming with a classic.

• 50:19Speaker 04

  A whole year.

• 50:20Sean Hayes?

  A whole year or a day? Or is, or is there one day?

• 50:23Jason Bateman?

  Don't back off, don't back off, Sean.

• 50:25Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, no, mine, mine was, um, mine was any day, any year in college. I just loved my college life. I loved it.

• 50:31Jason Bateman?

  Cool, I'd love to see that.

• 50:33Sean Hayes?

  I was a crazy person. It was great.

• 50:36Speaker 04

  You know, I don't know, I'm just thinking, any year that I could go back and spend with, before my father passed away, he passed away when I was young, and so I feel like, even though I don't kind of say, oh, this was a great year and I want to relive that year, just to have any year with the knowledge that this is special because it's not going to last.

• 51:00Jason Bateman?

  Was he the one that was running the theater school? Was it your dad and your mom together?

• 51:05Speaker 04

  It was my dad and my mom together, but I think my dad was the captain.

• 51:11Jason Bateman?

  Was he alive long enough to start to experience some of your momentum?

• 51:16Speaker 04

  No, I was a child.

• 51:19Jason Bateman?

  He would have loved it.

• 51:20Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, did that, I mean, that's a dumb question, but like, what did you, how did you?

• 51:26Speaker 04

  Did that affect my life?

• 51:31Sean Hayes?

  No, because my dad, I mean, I guess I haven't thought about it either. My dad left.

• 51:34Jason Bateman?

  Get ready, Will.

• 51:36Sean Hayes?

  My dad left when I was like five or six.

• 51:38Jason Bateman?

  He did? How?

• 51:40Sean Hayes?

  He just literally walked out the door.

• 51:41Jason Bateman?

  He did? With the keys or?

• 51:43Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 51:44Will Arnett?

  Surely he came back.

• 51:46Speaker 04

  You guys are cruel.

• 51:48Jason Bateman?

  Was there a vehicle involved?

• 51:52Jason Bateman?

  We gotta have one of those things like Stern with the little sound things, just the screeching tires. Anytime his parents.

• 51:58Will Arnett?

  Oh, you're right, we do, we need Fred here to do that.

• 52:00Sean Hayes?

  No, but there was, there was something like with the fact, I think growing up.

• 52:05Speaker 04

  Abandonment can be funny.

• 52:08Sean Hayes?

  It has to be.

• 52:09Will Arnett?

  If you did laugh, you'd cry. I think that that's the kind of, you know.

• 52:13Sean Hayes?

  I mean, my mom had Alzheimer's too, which is, once I cried.

• 52:17Will Arnett?

  So she doesn't remember him later.

• 52:20Speaker 04

  Oh my God, you guys.

• 52:23Will Arnett?

  That's the good news.

• 52:24Speaker 04

  I cannot play like this.

• 52:26Jason Bateman?

  We find the good in everything, Julia.

• 52:28Sean Hayes?

  You have to.

• 52:29Will Arnett?

  This is how we love.

• 52:30Sean Hayes?

  Julia, this is how we love. This is how we love. And also, but if I didn't, if I didn't make jokes or laugh about him, I cried for three years straight about my mom having Alzheimer's. She's passed away since then, but I cried and cried and cried and tried to take care of her and every one of our family members tried to take care of her. And then after a while, you're just, you have to have some levity. So anyway, one time I was, she was at this, this memory care place and there was a band there, it was a live band, and I was sitting with Scotty and his mom and we.

• 52:58Jason Bateman?

  What a gig.

• 52:58Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, and.

• 53:02Sean Hayes?

  Was one of the top bands?

• 53:03Will Arnett?

  A bunch of people who won't remember you.

• 53:10Will Arnett?

  They're like, should we play some of the old hits? Doesn't matter.

• 53:14Will Arnett?

  They don't know, it's new to them. Everything's new to them. You can, you can play a Beatles song and just say, we just wrote this.

• 53:20Sean Hayes?

  That's what I'm saying.

• 53:24Sean Hayes?

  That's what I'm saying. That's why you have to make light of it because otherwise you'll die crying. Okay. So anyway, there's a band.

• 53:33Will Arnett?

  This one's satisfaction.

• 53:36Will Arnett?

  I just wrote it in the car the way here.

• 53:39Sean Hayes?

  So we're sitting there and I'm, I'm sitting there with Scotty and Scotty's mom. And all of a sudden Scotty's mom, who's one of the sweetest people in the world, she gets up and starts dancing. She says to my mom, Mary, she's like, Mary, come on and dance. And she's like, yeah. And she's like, she's gonna get up and then she tries to grab me and she goes, Sean, come on, let's dance. I go, mom, I don't wanna dance. There's all these people watching in this room and, and there's a dance floor. And I'm like, no, mom, I don't wanna watch. She goes, come on, let's dance. I go, no, mom, I don't want. She goes, don't be such a pussy.

• 54:08Sean Hayes?

  And I was like, what? She would have never said that.

• 54:12Will Arnett?

  Did you die laughing though?

• 54:13Sean Hayes?

  Oh my God, I laughed so much. Did you dance with her? No. I was too embarrassed. Sean. I know, I wish I could now, blah, blah, blah.

• 54:22Sean Hayes?

  So anyway, no, she was sweet though. But anyway, let's be that.

• 54:25Will Arnett?

  Tracy must have laughed at that one of ours.

• 54:27Sean Hayes?

  Oh God, so my, my whole family, we, we obviously loved her so much. But anyway, so this is a good one I wrote down because somebody asked me this the other day. If you had to marry, this is for everybody. Julia, if you had to marry a woman? Guys, if you had to marry a guy? Me, if I had to marry a woman? Who would it be? Mine would be Carrie or Raina or Ally or Jen or Amanda. I would, I would marry Jason's wife, Amanda. If you had to marry a girl.

• 54:55Speaker 04

  That's a lot of people and I didn't even like make the top 10.

• 54:58Sean Hayes?

  And hang on, I'm not done. Julia. Okay, there you go.

• 55:03Speaker 04

  I would, I would marry either Frances McNormand or Cate Blanchett or.

• 55:12Sean Hayes?

  Oh, nice.

• 55:13Speaker 04

  Emma Thompson.

• 55:14Sean Hayes?

  Nice. Wow. Those are good answers. Those are pretty good.

• 55:16Speaker 04

  There's more, but I'm limiting myself to three.

• 55:20Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. Guys, if you had to marry a guy. I would marry one of these two guys because of the formula you were talking about before, which is you gotta marry a friend if you want it to last. That's right. I've always, I've always thought and so far I'm right because I do, I do really like that Amanda.

• 55:35Will Arnett?

  I'd marry, I'd, same thing. I'd marry one of these two guys because they're guys that I love and that I like. And Jason, we'd be able to share our golf clubs. And because we have like, I tried his wedge the other day, it's great. And also Jason, because I'd love to marry a known bottom.

• 55:51Sean Hayes?

  You don't want to have to do any fighting. Right. No negotiating. Right.

• 55:56Will Arnett?

  And no, I truly, truly, I would be one of these two guys. I love these guys so much and.

• 56:01Sean Hayes?

  I love you guys too. I want to hear about your new, your new thingy, Julia. So I just watched it last night. I want, I couldn't wait to talk.

• 56:08Speaker 04

  Oh, you did?

• 56:09Sean Hayes?

  They're locked. They're locked, Sean. So watch the notes. I loved it so much.

• 56:13Will Arnett?

  Wait, what is it?

• 56:14Sean Hayes?

  After the Hunt. It's called After the Hunt. I just watched it last night. What an awesome, dark, complicated character you're playing. As always, I believed every moment, every word coming out of your mouth.

• 56:29Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you never suck.

• 56:30Sean Hayes?

  And, and it was crafted in such a way that reminded me of, and now After the Hunt will be on that list. Doubt. What's the other one? Like Conclave, After the Hunt. Like they're all kind of brilliantly made, brilliantly performed. Your performance was incredible. And the end, I was like, because the whole time I'm like, what's going on? What is happening? And then the reveal was so cool. I mean, crazy, but cool. Anyway, thanks for coming.

• 57:03Will Arnett?

  Love to hear your question.

• 57:04Jason Bateman?

  Julie, you must be proud of it. It sounds like a pretty high level.

• 57:07Sean Hayes?

  What drew you to the material?

• 57:10Speaker 04

  Luca Guadagnino, who is just, he's...

• 57:14Sean Hayes?

  He did Call Me By Your Name, I mean tons of great movies.

• 57:16Speaker 04

  He is so wonderful as a person and so innovative and the most curious person I've ever met. He's so curious about people and why we do the things we do and why we don't do things. And just every detail of every, everything he is. There's nothing that you're seeing that hasn't been specifically chosen in this shade of color and this statue and this painting being slightly askew or, you know, whatever. I mean, it's just really, it's so...

• 57:52Sean Hayes?

  There's a really cool moment too when you guys, you and, oh, forgive me, Aya, right?

• 57:58Speaker 04

  Ayo, Ayo Debré.

• 57:59Sean Hayes?

  So sorry. So when you and Ayo are, it's kind of towards the end and you have this incredible scene outside of this building. And it starts as like regular, over the shoulder, and then it just cuts to you guys looking right into the camp. I love that. It was so effective. As you're finishing this argument, just right into the camera, cutting back and forth directly. It was really cool.

• 58:21Will Arnett?

  Oh, I can't wait.

• 58:22Sean Hayes?

  By the way, six minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival.

• 58:24Will Arnett?

  Yeah?

• 58:25Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 58:26Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 58:26Sean Hayes?

  Really amazing.

• 58:27Speaker 04

  People tried to sit down. I was like, oh no, no, no sitting.

• 58:32Will Arnett?

  Don't be rude.

• 58:35Sean Hayes?

  I just loved it.

• 58:36Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm glad, thank you. I'm glad you got to see it. Oh, Luca just texted me. How crazy.

• 58:43Sean Hayes?

  Crazy.

• 58:45Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 58:46Sean Hayes?

  Tell him he's doing well.

• 58:47Speaker 04

  He must have felt us talking about him.

• 58:49Jason Bateman?

  Is it, is it nice to launch a film at a, at a festival like that as opposed to just sort of a, a standard kind of release where it just kind of comes out?

• 58:58Speaker 04

  I've never really had an experience like this before, so it's nice to do new things, you know, especially this.

• 59:05Will Arnett?

  What do you mean? What do you mean you haven't had an experience?

• 59:07Speaker 04

  Well, I mean, I've never been to the Venice Film Festival for one thing. And, I mean, I guess George and I went to Cannes a few years ago, but that was the first time I'd ever been to Cannes.

• 59:19Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 59:21Speaker 04

  Because on television, they all look so terrifying. Like, why would you want to put yourself there?

• 59:28Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I agree.

• 59:30Speaker 04

  So if people say, "Oh, do you want to go to Cannes?" No, thank you.

• 59:35Jason Bateman?

  Off-season.

• 59:36Speaker 04

  Yeah, it just looks so terrifying. People screaming and...

• 59:41Jason Bateman?

  But what about all the glam and festivities of it all? Is that appealing in the, just in the slightest? Playing dress up and all that stuff?

• 59:49Speaker 04

  Well, I think, once you say yes, like, once you commit to it, then you have to have a sporting event mentality about it. You have to, you're gonna have a great time. Danny had on a tuxedo. I was just, it was great. That part was great.

• 1:00:08Sean Hayes?

  One final question before we let you go, because we've taken up way too much of your time. What is the coolest or weirdest or amazing piece of memorabilia from any film? Have you kept anything that you love?

• 1:00:18Jason Bateman?

  That's a good question.

• 1:00:19Speaker 04

  That is a good question.

• 1:00:21Sean Hayes?

  Because there are also, there's so many iconic films.

• 1:00:23Jason Bateman?

  I try, I always forget.

• 1:00:25Will Arnett?

  Not contaminated soil from Aaron Brockovich, surely.

• 1:00:27Speaker 04

  But no, water samples, no.

• 1:00:31Speaker 04

  But I haven't done anything cool, like a...

• 1:00:34Sean Hayes?

  Or a costume, or like a shirt, or any...

• 1:00:37Speaker 04

  I have a lot of costumes. I have a lot of costumes. And somewhere, I actually think I have some wedding dresses from Runaway Bride.

• 1:00:52Jason Bateman?

  Oh, really?

• 1:00:53Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:00:54Sean Hayes?

  Do you have a place you keep them? Like, I mean, like a separate from your house?

• 1:00:57Speaker 04

  It's probably dangerously just in the garage in New Mexico. And maybe there's just generations of mice that have made homes now.

• 1:01:08Sean Hayes?

  They're trying it on.

• 1:01:10Speaker 04

  In these boxes.

• 1:01:13Speaker 04

  Yeah, but not really more like I have a beautiful drawing that Meryl Streep did for me of my character that she gave me as a rap gift from Augusto H. County.

• 1:01:26Sean Hayes?

  Oh, I love that movie.

• 1:01:28Jason Bateman?

  That movie's so good.

• 1:01:29Speaker 04

  Some things like that.

• 1:01:30Jason Bateman?

  I love that. What a cast.

• 1:01:31Sean Hayes?

  Eat your fish, eat your fish.

• 1:01:33Speaker 04

  Produced that movie. Yeah, Eat Your Fish, Bitch. George Clooney produced that movie.

• 1:01:36Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yeah?

• 1:01:37Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's great.

• 1:01:37Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:01:38Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's very good.

• 1:01:40Sean Hayes?

  Okay, so it premiered, so it's called After the Hunt. It premieres, wait, select theaters, October 10th and wider, October 17th. It's so good. I mean, I just loved it. I loved it so much.

• 1:01:50Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 1:01:51Jason Bateman?

  Julia, you're the greatest.

• 1:01:52Will Arnett?

  Yeah, no kidding.

• 1:01:53Speaker 04

  You guys are so fun. I honestly, I, this is just zipped by and I-

• 1:01:58Jason Bateman?

  It was quick, right?

• 1:01:59Speaker 04

  I just want, I want a chance to do it again and be quick and witty and, and more-

• 1:02:06Jason Bateman?

  You were sublime.

• 1:02:07Speaker 04

  More one of the, one of the dudes.

• 1:02:09Jason Bateman?

  No, no, you are, you were, you were amazing. Come back anytime you want.

• 1:02:13Speaker 04

  Can we just talk about the microphone that Will Arnett has in his apartment?

• 1:02:17Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's pretty sweet.

• 1:02:18Speaker 04

  What is up with that?

• 1:02:19Will Arnett?

  It's, it's janky right now. I'm in a very, I'm in a makeshift situation, uh, cause I just moved in here yesterday.

• 1:02:26Jason Bateman?

  Yo, let's get the whisper booth all set up, huh, Willie?

• 1:02:28Will Arnett?

  I know, I know, I know. It's, it's not, nothing's great. The internet's not great. I got the windows open cause the AC's broken. I got a guy here.

• 1:02:34Jason Bateman?

  You got a real-

• 1:02:35Sean Hayes?

  You got a guy.

• 1:02:36Jason Bateman?

  Vital VO career you need to manage.

• 1:02:38Speaker 04

  Don't we get to see, oh, those chairs are nice.

• 1:02:41Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, nice chairs.

• 1:02:42Speaker 04

  Do we get to see your, your guest star?

• 1:02:46Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. Where's your babe? Let's pull your babe in real quick.

• 1:02:49Will Arnett?

  She just went out. She just went out.

• 1:02:50Speaker 04

  Oh, sure.

• 1:02:51Sean Hayes?

  Oh, she's just went out, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:02:52Speaker 04

  Just left.

• 1:02:53Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. I think it's all fake. I think what you guys, yeah, it's like a, it's a fake media story.

• 1:02:58Will Arnett?

  Hmm.

• 1:02:59Jason Bateman?

  No, we're thrilled for you.

• 1:03:01Sean Hayes?

  Well, yeah, we are thrilled.

• 1:03:02Jason Bateman?

  Julia, you're incredible. Thank you for saying yes to this.

• 1:03:06Will Arnett?

  Talking about a thrill.

• 1:03:06Jason Bateman?

  Come back anytime you want, Mrs.

• 1:03:08Speaker 04

  Oh, thanks. Thank you.

• 1:03:10Jason Bateman?

  Say hi to Danny.

• 1:03:11Will Arnett?

  It goes without saying, I've been such a fan of yours for so long.

• 1:03:14Jason Bateman?

  Likewise.

• 1:03:15Will Arnett?

  You're so great at what you do.

• 1:03:16Jason Bateman?

  Yes.

• 1:03:16Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 1:03:17Sean Hayes?

  More please.

• 1:03:18Will Arnett?

  Truly.

• 1:03:18Speaker 04

  Thank you. And can I just say, I'm sorry to leave you out, Sean, because I am your guest and I appreciate you so much.

• 1:03:24Jason Bateman?

  That's okay, likewise.

• 1:03:25Speaker 04

  But a rest of development.

• 1:03:28Speaker 04

  Danny and I ate that show up like ice cream and I'm happy to report that our youngest son, who's 18, just started college. Episode one pilot, we just started all over again, me and him together. We are loving it.

• 1:03:44Jason Bateman?

  Wait, can you invite me over? Because I haven't seen them since then and I want to watch them all again and my kids won't watch anything I do.

• 1:03:52Speaker 04

  Come over. We'll go back to the pilot. We will back this right up.

• 1:03:56Will Arnett?

  Jason and I haven't watched, we used to watch when it first came on the air. I'd go over Sundays, we'd watch football together and we'd watch the episodes as it aired. We were like, wow, this is so crazy.

• 1:04:05Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, and then we'd wake up in the morning and we'd call in for the overnights.

• 1:04:08Speaker 04

  It is so, how much is going on all the time is, it's extraordinary.

• 1:04:18Will Arnett?

  Well, you know Mitch Hurwitz, Julia, I know you know Mitch a little bit. And I just spoke to him for the first time in a few months, two days ago out of the blue.

• 1:04:25Jason Bateman?

  How's he doing?

• 1:04:26Will Arnett?

  He's doing okay, yeah. You know, he's the funniest guy. Immediately you start texting with him and he's the funniest person of all time.

• 1:04:32Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:33Speaker 04

  I mean, that show really is one in a million.

• 1:04:36Jason Bateman?

  Sean's gonna catch it one of these days. We're gonna get some tapes, Sean.

• 1:04:40Will Arnett?

  We're gonna make him watch it clock record style.

• 1:04:42Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. Well, thank you, Julia, for being with us today. Enjoy the rest of your day and good luck with the film.

• 1:04:52Speaker 04

  Thanks.

• 1:04:53Jason Bateman?

  After the Hunt.

• 1:04:54Will Arnett?

  Can't wait.

• 1:04:55Jason Bateman?

  Coming in October.

• 1:04:56Speaker 04

  After the Hunt.

• 1:04:57Will Arnett?

  October 10th.

• 1:04:58Speaker 04

  October 10th. Wide, October 17th. My birthday, October 28th.

• 1:05:02Jason Bateman?

  Oh, great. That's Franny's birthday, my eldest.

• 1:05:06Speaker 04

  October, it's the, it's the big month now.

• 1:05:10Will Arnett?

  Three days after my son Archie and Wendell Clark's birthday. Okay, doesn't matter.

• 1:05:13Jason Bateman?

  It's like three and a half months and a week, couple of weeks after. Anyway, so.

• 1:05:20Sean Hayes?

  I love you to pieces. Thank you for being here.

• 1:05:22Speaker 04

  Lots of love, you guys. Thank you.

• 1:05:23Sean Hayes?

  You too.

• 1:05:24Speaker 04

  Bye.

• 1:05:24Sean Hayes?

  Bye.

• 1:05:28Will Arnett?

  Wow, Sean.

• 1:05:29Sean Hayes?

  Isn't she great? I love... By the way, for so long, she's been on my list for so... I'm sure she's on all our lists.

• 1:05:35Jason Bateman?

  Tip top, of every list.

• 1:05:37Sean Hayes?

  I know.

• 1:05:37Jason Bateman?

  Name the list, she's at the top.

• 1:05:39Sean Hayes?

  Iconic. Iconic. I was looking at her list of credits and you're just like, bang, bang, bang, bang, one big movie after another. It's just...

• 1:05:48Jason Bateman?

  Even has even taken pauses, you know, as she's elected to take pauses and the industry just keeps her place in line. And she comes back in and she's just, bang, another incredible director she works with.

• 1:06:00Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:00Jason Bateman?

  You know, it's an incredible career.

• 1:06:03Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, and that movie's really good.

• 1:06:05Jason Bateman?

  Yeah?

• 1:06:05Will Arnett?

  I can't wait to see that movie.

• 1:06:08Jason Bateman?

  It's not in the English countryside chasing foxes on horses, right?

• 1:06:13Sean Hayes?

  No, this is not... None of that's happening now.

• 1:06:17Will Arnett?

  It's not about a salon after the hunt where we're just sitting in the drawing room talking about the hunt.

• 1:06:22Jason Bateman?

  Wonderful shot back there, geez.

• 1:06:24Will Arnett?

  What a hunt we had, eh?

• 1:06:26Jason Bateman?

  Oh, that's tricky little fox.

• 1:06:31Jason Bateman?

  Tricky little fox.

• 1:06:33Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, what else can you say? She is... You know, I was gonna ask her about being called America's sweetheart because she's been called that for her whole life. And what that means, like, if she hates that anymore, you know? It's like, it's true, everybody... There's nobody that doesn't love her.

• 1:06:47Jason Bateman?

  Right, but it's also like, you can hate it, but like, it is something maybe you could look back on when you're, you know, lying on the bed, taking your last 25 breaths and going like, "That was pretty cool that I held that title," you know?

• 1:07:01Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I mean, for so long.

• 1:07:03Jason Bateman?

  She's awesome.

• 1:07:04Sean Hayes?

  And there's other friends of ours that has that title as well.

• 1:07:07Jason Bateman?

  There are those that share it, for sure.

• 1:07:08Sean Hayes?

  I share it.

• 1:07:09Jason Bateman?

  Well, hang on.

• 1:07:10Sean Hayes?

  So many people.

• 1:07:12Jason Bateman?

  I don't know.

• 1:07:15Will Arnett?

  Who's thinking of a bye?

• 1:07:17Jason Bateman?

  Yo, I know, well, you're Googling something. Let's see what you found, Zoe.

• 1:07:22Will Arnett?

  I just loved her story about that she kept the dresses from Runaway. Bye!

• 1:07:39Speaker 03

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• 1:08:41Sean Hayes?

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• 1:09:26Sean Hayes?

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