"Amy Adams"

Harmonize to a deep cut from the Indigo Girls: it’s Amy Adams. Telepathy, Army Dads, emergency medical responses, and cracking the code of neutrality. Call us from the White House bathroom… it’s a sparkly-fresh brand spankin’ 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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• 1:29Sean Hayes?

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• 2:05Sean Hayes?

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• 2:48Sean Hayes?

  And three, two, one.

• 2:50Will Arnett?

  Cold open.

• 2:51Sean Hayes?

  Hey, it's podcast time, everybody. Welcome, welcome. You're live on Podcast Time. We're cold opening.

• 2:58Will Arnett?

  Yeah, we are.

• 2:58Sean Hayes?

  We're getting ready to do our little show. Mm-hmm. Hope you stick around for that instead of just this. Yeah, you get ready to listen, we'll get ready to talk. Ready, set, go. Welcome to Smartless.

• 3:27Will Arnett?

  I'm going full tilt this morning. It's a Smartless, it's one of our OG original ones.

• 3:31Sean Hayes?

  Smartless hoodie. You're like, you're cool dad this morning.

• 3:34Will Arnett?

  Did I tell you, so the other day, I've never worn it out of the house, obviously, for every...

• 3:38Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you don't want people to know that.

• 3:40Will Arnett?

  Well, also, it's got our faces on the back.

• 3:42Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you don't want people to know that.

• 3:43Will Arnett?

  So you don't want to be like, hey, Johnny wearing his merch. So the other day, wearing the house, went to do my little walk that you guys know, and forgot that I had it on. And then my shirt, and I had to wear it to go, and I went to Whole Foods. And I realized as I was getting out of the car.

• 4:01Jason Bateman?

  Why'd you have to wear it? Because if you took it off, you'd be just in a sweaty.

• 4:04Will Arnett?

  Well, I'd taken my t-shirt off because it was gone. It was so soaked in sweat because I work out so hard. Because if you want, let me walk you through the workout.

• 4:12Jason Bateman?

  Well, because you're wearing the heavy hands. You strap on the heavy hands and the heavy ankles, right? The Velcro.

• 4:17Will Arnett?

  And I got the big visor that comes down in front and then I got the lock. No, because I'm wearing the, you know, I got the weight vest as we know.

• 4:25Jason Bateman?

  So you're shirtless with a hoodie on.

• 4:26Will Arnett?

  So anyway, shirtless with the hoodie on and then I'm in line.

• 4:28Jason Bateman?

  Smartless hoodie on in Whole Foods.

• 4:31Will Arnett?

  And I'm in Whole Foods. I'm just trying to do it in and out.

• 4:33Jason Bateman?

  Somebody you knew.

• 4:34Will Arnett?

  No, I got a guy, I forget the dude's name. He's always does like Getty Images photos at events and he's like, and I just hear it, I was like, well, it looks like somebody's got Will Arnett on the back. And I turn around and I go, luckily I kind of, we all kind of know, I forget his name, he's a nice guy. And I was like, oh shit. At which point, and then I go up to, I do a self-checkout and this girl taps me on the shoulder like, are you Will?

• 4:57Jason Bateman?

  Love the show.

• 4:57Will Arnett?

  Yeah, and I'm like, really big fan. And I literally said, and I said to this stranger, and I said to this stranger, I was so embarrassed. I go, by the way, I never normally would wear this, but I didn't have like.

• 5:09Jason Bateman?

  It gets worse.

• 5:10Will Arnett?

  And I just ran to my car. I was like, fuck, what a tool.

• 5:13Jason Bateman?

  In a deeper sweat. Then I hope you were locked out of your car, had to call AAA on the side of the.

• 5:20Will Arnett?

  Standing on the side of the street.

• 5:22Sean Hayes?

  I'll wear, I'll wear smartless sweats.

• 5:26Will Arnett?

  No, we know.

• 5:27Sean Hayes?

  No, to the gym, to the gym.

• 5:28Will Arnett?

  Sure, sure.

• 5:29Jason Bateman?

  Or anywhere.

• 5:30Sean Hayes?

  But nobody cares. Nobody stops.

• 5:32Will Arnett?

  It was so humiliating. Tapped on the shoulder.

• 5:37Jason Bateman?

  Love the show. Excuse me, are you Will Arnett?

• 5:40Will Arnett?

  Yeah, how's your merch going?

• 5:41Jason Bateman?

  What's that new tag for Reese's where you're using the Reese's name for a different word? Like it's, it's all, instead of like, it's all reality, it's all Reese's or something like that? I don't know. I was impressed with it this weekend.

• 5:54Will Arnett?

  Yeah, everybody, everybody loves a Reese's.

• 5:57Jason Bateman?

  No, and something like that. Anyway, I was excited. I apologize, I'm picking my teeth a little bit. What is, what's the, what's the?

• 6:05Sean Hayes?

  Don't start now.

• 6:06Will Arnett?

  What's the protocol?

• 6:07Jason Bateman?

  I know. Yeah, the politeness thing. You guys aren't both real deep on manners, but I wouldn't mind.

• 6:13Will Arnett?

  Much more than you are.

• 6:14Jason Bateman?

  I don't know about that.

• 6:15Sean Hayes?

  What about?

• 6:16Will Arnett?

  I don't talk about potty stuff. I don't, I don't pick my teeth. I don't eat.

• 6:20Jason Bateman?

  And you don't, you know, you don't fart. You don't fart either. I don't think you've ever farted in front of me.

• 6:24Will Arnett?

  Well, it's disgusting. Who wants to hear? What are you talking about, man?

• 6:27Jason Bateman?

  Oh, it's, listen, that's just, it's just dude shit, you know, bro.

• 6:31Will Arnett?

  It's not just dude shit.

• 6:33Jason Bateman?

  I mean, Sean and I love our power burps. Sean, I think you and I, you and I, I've definitely farted in front of you, Sean. I think you've done.

• 6:39Sean Hayes?

  You've definitely farted on me.

• 6:41Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you farted in front of me before.

• 6:43Sean Hayes?

  I have, yeah.

• 6:44Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 6:45Sean Hayes?

  In the car.

• 6:45Jason Bateman?

  But Willie doesn't. He doesn't. So then Will, then you don't, you don't, you don't, did you ever poo in front of Amy?

• 6:54Will Arnett?

  Are you looking for clicks?

• 6:56Jason Bateman?

  No, I'm just saying.

• 6:57Will Arnett?

  Are you trying to get something that we can click around there?

• 6:59Sean Hayes?

  I always forget people are listening.

• 7:01Jason Bateman?

  Wait, but hang on, you were married to her, had two kids. You guys never went to the bathroom in front of each other?

• 7:07Will Arnett?

  I'm sorry, the question is, did I poo in front of Amy? And you're, and you're saying that I don't have manners? What are you talking about?

• 7:14Sean Hayes?

  I think it's a good question.

• 7:15Will Arnett?

  It's not a good question. I refuse to answer it.

• 7:17Sean Hayes?

  Poo, it's a cute question.

• 7:18Will Arnett?

  I refuse to answer that. It's none of your fucking business.

• 7:21Sean Hayes?

  P E W P, yeah.

• 7:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, alright.

• 7:24Sean Hayes?

  I hope we have a very respectable guest on.

• 7:26Will Arnett?

  Well, we do.

• 7:27Sean Hayes?

  Well, let me ask you.

• 7:27Will Arnett?

  We do, and she's gonna be outraged by this, by the way.

• 7:30Sean Hayes?

  But wait a minute, but wait a minute, do you poo in front of, in front of Amanda?

• 7:35Jason Bateman?

  I mean, we don't use the same potty, but.

• 7:40Will Arnett?

  Potty, god.

• 7:42Jason Bateman?

  If she, if she needed to come in and ask me something important, she, she could and would. I don't know if I would do that to her, although to hear her, she doesn't poo, never has.

• 7:57Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 7:58Jason Bateman?

  I don't know how, it's amazing. But, um, uh, yeah.

• 8:04Sean Hayes?

  I spoke to her this morning. She said, please tell him that I'm jealous that we get to see your, your face, and she didn't this morning.

• 8:13Jason Bateman?

  Oh, that's your age. It's coming up on three weeks.

• 8:18Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 8:19Sean Hayes?

  When are you back?

• 8:20Will Arnett?

  We saw her this weekend. I talked to her yesterday and I saw her Saturday night.

• 8:23Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, we saw her Saturday night.

• 8:25Will Arnett?

  I've been spending a lot of time with her.

• 8:26Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, same.

• 8:27Will Arnett?

  Been spending a lot of time with her.

• 8:28Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 8:29Will Arnett?

  Well, let me get, let me say this. When you get home, she is worn out.

• 8:33Sean Hayes?

  Just give her, just give her a break?

• 8:38Will Arnett?

  I love, can I just say, all, all bits aside, how much I do love your wife Amanda.

• 8:44Sean Hayes?

  Oh my God, we all love her.

• 8:45Will Arnett?

  She is the, she is-

• 8:46Sean Hayes?

  I was on the phone with her this morning.

• 8:47Will Arnett?

  She is the fucking greatest. She's such a good friend. She's so thoughtful and kind and sweet.

• 8:52Sean Hayes?

  Always available.

• 8:53Will Arnett?

  Yeah, she's amazing. And, and-

• 8:55Sean Hayes?

  I, I, I like her too, pretty much.

• 8:57Will Arnett?

  She's so good. She's so, so good. Tell you, she's good. Tell you, she's real good. And classy. And you're gonna feel badly about all this disgusting potty talk.

• 9:04Sean Hayes?

  Tell me, she's not an award winner, is she?

• 9:06Will Arnett?

  Oh, well, okay. Well, tell me, if, if this means a lot.

• 9:08Sean Hayes?

  Uh-oh.

• 9:09Will Arnett?

  Ten Golden Globe nominations and two wins.

• 9:12Sean Hayes?

  Wow.

• 9:12Will Arnett?

  Seven BAFTA nominations.

• 9:14Sean Hayes?

  Oh, I was gonna say, does she have a British accent? No.

• 9:16Will Arnett?

  Two Emmy noms, ten SAGs nominations and two wins.

• 9:20Sean Hayes?

  I apologize.

• 9:21Will Arnett?

  Five Academy Award nominations.

• 9:24Sean Hayes?

  Wow.

• 9:24Will Arnett?

  Christ. Five Academy Award nominations. Do you like films like Junebug? Do you like films like Night of the Museum, Julian and Julia? Uh, do you like, like The Master, The Muppets, On the Road, Arrival, Sean?

• 9:39Sean Hayes?

  Oh my God, Arrival's my favorite movie. She's got a dirty sense of humor. She's fine with the poo talk. Get around here. Hi.

• 9:48Speaker 03

  I'm so glad I entered on this conversation.

• 9:50Will Arnett?

  I'm so, I'm so embarrassed, Amy. I'm sorry.

• 9:54Speaker 03

  No, no, don't be, don't be.

• 9:55Sean Hayes?

  I know you're good with the poo talk.

• 9:57Speaker 03

  I'm fine with poo talk, absolutely. And I also love Amanda, so.

• 10:01Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, she's the best. Oh, how nice you're here with us, Amy.

• 10:06Speaker 03

  I'm so happy to be here. Yes, I, I'm, I'm very glad to get to participate in this conversation. It's an important conversation.

• 10:12Sean Hayes?

  Well, jump in if you want.

• 10:13Will Arnett?

  Amy, welcome. Listen, here's our new intro. Pretend that it never happened.

• 10:18Sean Hayes?

  Now we get the-

• 10:19Will Arnett?

  Guys, it's Amy Adams.

• 10:20Speaker 03

  Hi. Hi, guys.

• 10:23Will Arnett?

  Amy, where are we finding you today, by the way? I'm really liking your background.

• 10:27Speaker 03

  Uh, Los Angeles, in my kitchen.

• 10:29Will Arnett?

  Okay, in your kitchen. You look so nice.

• 10:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 10:31Sean Hayes?

  Amy, I'm gonna let Will drive this, but I'm dying to get to Doubt.

• 10:34Will Arnett?

  Don't worry, he won't.

• 10:35Sean Hayes?

  And, and Arrival, because those are two of my favorite-

• 10:40Sean Hayes?

  Films ever and I've seen Arrival probably, no joke, probably like 10, 12 times.

• 10:46Jason Bateman?

  It's so good.

• 10:47Will Arnett?

  Amy, I can't tell you how many times we've had other people on who have no connection to Arrival. And then Sean will be, have you seen Arrival?

• 10:54Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 10:55Sean Hayes?

  But, but that's, that script is one, you know, not since like, you know, The Sixth Sense or something. Have you read a script or seen a script or seen a movie, whatever, that has an ending that just completely blows your mind? I mean, the, the fact that all the flashbacks were actually flash forwards is so.

• 11:12Jason Bateman?

  Spoiler alert.

• 11:13Sean Hayes?

  You've never seen anything like, like when you read it, were you like, wait a minute, what? Like.

• 11:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, I was reading it sort of thinking it was told in like a traditional timeline. So I still loved it, but then when I got to the end, I was like, oh, now I gotta go back and reread it and understand.

• 11:29Sean Hayes?

  Right, you almost have to watch the movie again.

• 11:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's, I was, it was so crazy to shoot it because I had to perform it as if it were like, it was, I had to live in those, in, in that duality of like, letting the audience think that it was flashbacks, but then on a rewatch, understanding that it was a flash forward. So that was a lot of fun.

• 11:46Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 11:47Will Arnett?

  It's so.

• 11:47Sean Hayes?

  So smart.

• 11:48Will Arnett?

  Yeah, that's so, so smart.

• 11:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, Denis is amazing. He's so good.

• 11:52Will Arnett?

  That guy is something else.

• 11:53Speaker 03

  And he's lovely. He's like the nicest.

• 11:55Sean Hayes?

  He was on the podcast too.

• 11:56Will Arnett?

  We, we had him on.

• 11:57Speaker 03

  Isn't he just like so humble and funny and you're like?

• 12:00Will Arnett?

  Yeah. Can you imagine he had to deal with Sean that whole, the whole podcast?

• 12:03Speaker 03

  Oh my gosh.

• 12:04Will Arnett?

  It was such a handful.

• 12:05Sean Hayes?

  I was dripping in sweat.

• 12:06Will Arnett?

  And then you did, and then you did the, and then you.

• 12:08Sean Hayes?

  And Dune, I'm like, Dune?

• 12:10Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:10Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 12:10Jason Bateman?

  And then I was the idiot over here calling him Denny the whole time, which is.

• 12:14Speaker 03

  That's all right. I called him Dennis Villanueva. So there you go.

• 12:18Sean Hayes?

  Villanueva.

• 12:20Will Arnett?

  Denis.

• 12:20Speaker 03

  Not to him. I, I joked to him because it's, that's kind of how it's spelled in sort of the.

• 12:26Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 12:27Will Arnett?

  Well.

• 12:27Speaker 03

  Colorado pronunciation.

• 12:29Will Arnett?

  But I was gonna say Colorado by way of, so I didn't know this, that you were born in Italy.

• 12:35Speaker 03

  I was born in Italy.

• 12:36Sean Hayes?

  What part?

• 12:37Speaker 03

  Dad was in the army. Um. My dad was stationed at Vicenza and Aviano Air Force Base and Vicenza Army Base. So I was born in that region, which is kind of in between Florence and Venice.

• 12:49Sean Hayes?

  Scotty, my husband Scotty, he's an Army brat too. He was born in Okinawa, Japan.

• 12:53Speaker 03

  Oh, wow.

• 12:54Sean Hayes?

  Yes, you guys are like born all over the world.

• 12:56Speaker 03

  Exactly. My husband was born in Ramstein, Germany.

• 13:00Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow.

• 13:01Will Arnett?

  Oh, wow.

• 13:01Speaker 03

  Called Ramstein, yeah.

• 13:02Will Arnett?

  Also, so also, also.

• 13:03Speaker 03

  Also Air Force, yeah.

• 13:05Will Arnett?

  Also Air Force.

• 13:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, his dad was Air Force, so.

• 13:08Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow, that's cool.

• 13:09Jason Bateman?

  Then how does it work then to get an American passport? Do you have to like sort of when you, when you come to this country, then what, what goes on with that?

• 13:17Will Arnett?

  Well, her parents are American, so she's an American born abroad.

• 13:19Speaker 03

  You're naturalized.

• 13:20Sean Hayes?

  Because you're born in an American base.

• 13:22Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 13:23Will Arnett?

  Yeah. Can you, could you run for president?

• 13:27Speaker 03

  I think I'm, I don't, I don't think that's in my interest.

• 13:30Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 13:30Speaker 03

  But I think technically I can.

• 13:31Will Arnett?

  By the way, all the rules are at the window on that one, I think, so. Are there any rules to that anymore?

• 13:38Speaker 03

  I think I'd be, I'd be great.

• 13:39Will Arnett?

  I bet you'd be very good.

• 13:41Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 13:41Will Arnett?

  I bet you'd be very good. I'd vote for you.

• 13:43Speaker 03

  There'd be a lot of singing in the White House, that's for sure.

• 13:46Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 13:47Will Arnett?

  That would be lovely. So, so you're, you're born, born overseas to Air Force dad.

• 13:55Speaker 03

  Army dad.

• 13:55Will Arnett?

  And moved around.

• 13:56Speaker 03

  Just to be clear.

• 13:57Will Arnett?

  Army dad, oh, sorry.

• 13:57Speaker 03

  My husband has an Air Force dad. Sorry, I'm not that particular, but just in case he is, I wanna.

• 14:02Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, of course. Okay, so Army dad.

• 14:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 14:04Will Arnett?

  Um, and then you end, but you end up basically settling in Colorado, you, which you mentioned?

• 14:11Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 14:11Will Arnett?

  And then where did the, where did the sort of the interest come from to, you know, for performing? Because you're not just a great performer who does it at the highest level, you're also prolific. You've done so much. And so it seems like, where, where does that come from? Was, was your mom into that or was your dad into that? Was, were they encouraging?

• 14:34Speaker 03

  My dad was a performer.

• 14:35Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow.

• 14:36Speaker 03

  He played.

• 14:39Speaker 03

  He had a band and sang and he ended up being sort of like a one man band and he played in bars and so we'd go watch him in bars.

• 14:46Jason Bateman?

  Wait, with the cymbals tied to the leg and everything?

• 14:49Speaker 03

  It wasn't quite Dick Van Dyke, Mary Poppins.

• 14:51Will Arnett?

  I love that. I love that.

• 14:53Speaker 03

  No, he had like all these synths and he would like push buttons for, yeah.

• 14:58Jason Bateman?

  Bang your knees together for the cymbal hit?

• 15:00Speaker 03

  In bars. Yeah, pizza joints, just walking around, flapping his wings.

• 15:04Will Arnett?

  Oh, I love that.

• 15:05Jason Bateman?

  They just, they'd just turn them loose for someone's birthday, come out of the kitchen?

• 15:11Speaker 03

  I actually wish that's what he did. That would be great.

• 15:14Will Arnett?

  That's so good.

• 15:17Speaker 03

  No, he would play, there's a foot synthesizer, right? So I don't know if you guys have ever seen those.

• 15:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 15:23Speaker 03

  So he would wear fancy socks and play the foot synthesizer.

• 15:26Jason Bateman?

  Come on.

• 15:27Will Arnett?

  No way.

• 15:27Jason Bateman?

  Kind of like Big, like the movie Big?

• 15:29Speaker 03

  No, it's a, it's not like that. It's, it's literally looks sort of like, I guess, this is what came to mind. You know in Goonies, that big piano? That they play with the bones?

• 15:40Jason Bateman?

  With the skeleton bones?

• 15:41Speaker 03

  It's like that, but like a black lacquer. I don't know. That's the best way. That's the visualization.

• 15:46Jason Bateman?

  Is it kind of like the bottom half of an organ? Like when they push the feet with you?

• 15:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly. So he pushes on these pedals with his feet while he plays.

• 15:52Jason Bateman?

  You say that, Sean.

• 15:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 15:54Jason Bateman?

  Instead of Goonies, like getting so excited about Goonies?

• 15:56Speaker 03

  I'm like, it's kind of like the Goonies skeleton.

• 15:57Will Arnett?

  Sean's like, imagine if they made Big and Goonies into like, like imagine if the Villeneuve made like Goonies and Big?

• 16:05Jason Bateman?

  And that person who's making it is watching Arrival?

• 16:09Jason Bateman?

  Wait, so Amy, this doesn't sound like an army dad.

• 16:13Speaker 03

  I'm just like, return to the Goon docks. All of a sudden, you guys are writing a script, just so you know.

• 16:18Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you're right. Jason's right. It doesn't sound like a, like a regular army dad.

• 16:22Jason Bateman?

  He can also clean a weapon, too. I mean, this guy's multi-talented, we're saying. You're painting a great, dynamic picture.

• 16:29Speaker 03

  Absolutely. Yeah, but mostly, mostly played music, so.

• 16:33Jason Bateman?

  Wow, so then that's, so then that's where you got your, so then did singing and dancing precede acting?

• 16:39Speaker 03

  Yes, yeah. Absolutely. I never thought I was going to be an actress. I was, I was such a musical theater kid and mostly trained in ballet, but like I was so shy and I had paralyzing stage fright. Still do, but I make myself do it anyway. And every time I'm like, why do I do this to myself?

• 16:57Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's torture.

• 16:58Speaker 03

  Torture.

• 16:59Jason Bateman?

  But isn't stage fright more acute on a stage, doing singing, dancing, spotlight, microphone?

• 17:04Will Arnett?

  It's not cute anywhere.

• 17:09Sean Hayes?

  Isn't the fright more intense there than in front of a camera? Or no?

• 17:15Speaker 03

  Yes, oh yeah. I mean, I still get nervous in front of a camera, but it's such an intimate thing and you have one person you can focus on and-

• 17:22Sean Hayes?

  And you can screw up.

• 17:23Speaker 03

  You can screw up, exactly.

• 17:24Sean Hayes?

  And then just do it again. Now, this is reminding me because I was doing a project, this is many, many, many, many, many years ago-

• 17:31Will Arnett?

  Which project was this? Sorry, which project were you working on?

• 17:35Sean Hayes?

  I can't say. No, that's all right, we'll applaud. And the producers were like, "You should reach out to Amy Adams for this project." And I was like, "Well, I don't know Amy Adams, I'm a big fan, but I don't know her." "No, just do it, she knows you're gonna call." So I called you, I don't know if you remember this. I called you and you picked up and you go, "Hello." And I go, "Hi, Amy, it's Sean Hayes." "Oh, hi, I'm in the White House right now in the bathroom, can I call you back?" Do you remember this?

• 17:59Speaker 03

  I was at the White House for Julie and Julia.

• 18:02Sean Hayes?

  Oh my God, and that's when I was like, "Wait, the time I call you, you're in the bathroom at the White House?"

• 18:07Speaker 03

  Yes, I was in the bathroom at the White House.

• 18:09Sean Hayes?

  That is crazy.

• 18:09Speaker 03

  "Can we talk later?"

• 18:10Sean Hayes?

  So that was the last time you-

• 18:11Will Arnett?

  So that was the last time you talked to her?

• 18:13Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that was the last time I talked to Amy. "How've you been since?"

• 18:16Speaker 03

  You know, just hanging out, having a kid.

• 18:19Will Arnett?

  What I want to know, oh yeah, we're gonna get into that, but what I want to know is, you didn't think you would have a career as an actor. So, and your dad's doing all these, playing the one man band in the bars and stuff. How do you go from that to, what's your first acting gig and how did that happen? From Colorado.

• 18:35Speaker 03

  Well, I started dancing. That was sort of my way into performing, which was good because I could be with like a group of people. For me, it's very much about a singular focus. So like, always being in the chorus was really fun because you got to feed off of everybody else and just become a part of a group, you know? And I love that. So yeah, I got into dancing, which led me after high school. I was gonna say, the reason I got into all of it is because I was bad at math because I wanted to be a doctor, so I was like-

• 19:04Sean Hayes?

  Really?

• 19:05Speaker 03

  Really.

• 19:05Sean Hayes?

  What kind of doctor?

• 19:06Speaker 03

  Still wish I could have been a doctor. I think- I think I wanted to work in emergency medicine. I'm really good in a crisis.

• 19:14Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 19:15Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 19:15Jason Bateman?

  And you'd be OK with like blood and gore and like somebody in a lot of pain?

• 19:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:20Jason Bateman?

  Trauma you'd be OK with?

• 19:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, I really, I want to like, I have this fantasy that when I retire from acting, I'm going to be one of the seniors that volunteers down at Cedars. I was like, I just want to work.

• 19:31Sean Hayes?

  I kind of have the same thing.

• 19:32Speaker 03

  Do you?

• 19:32Sean Hayes?

  I kind of want to, yeah, like I want to just go like help people out, like what's going on?

• 19:35Will Arnett?

  Well, you're going to be there anyway, so you might as well.

• 19:38Jason Bateman?

  You've got your own parking spot there.

• 19:41Sean Hayes?

  It's a hop, skip and jump. Wait, that's so interesting. Are you good? So, so because some people are like flight instead of fight during emergencies, right? They're like, I can't deal with this and they run away. Whereas like, there's this one time when I was driving home from a taping of Will and Grace and a guy was lying in the middle of the street.

• 19:59Will Arnett?

  This is a sitcom. So funny. So many misunderstandings.

• 20:04Jason Bateman?

  They don't make them no more.

• 20:06Will Arnett?

  They're not like that, not with the laughs and this one thinks this and the other one thinks this and they have a misunderstanding.

• 20:17Sean Hayes?

  They have a misunderstanding.

• 20:18Jason Bateman?

  The one door shuts, the other one opens, no one knows who's in what bed.

• 20:22Will Arnett?

  Everybody's gay.

• 20:27Sean Hayes?

  Sorry, Amy.

• 20:28Will Arnett?

  Sorry about that.

• 20:29Speaker 03

  No, I love it. I love it. You guys are great. I'm like sometimes way too earnest, so I appreciate you guys bringing humor in.

• 20:37Will Arnett?

  We're not.

• 20:37Sean Hayes?

  No, don't worry about it.

• 20:39Will Arnett?

  We should be, we should learn from you.

• 20:41Speaker 03

  No, no.

• 20:42Sean Hayes?

  No, so I was driving home from one of the tapings and there's this guy lying in the middle of the street and I was like, what? And the two cars ahead of me were just driving around him. I was like, but this guy's lying in the middle of the street.

• 20:51Jason Bateman?

  That was me and Will.

• 20:54Jason Bateman?

  On the gas.

• 20:56Will Arnett?

  Smart.

• 20:58Sean Hayes?

  Just missed his head. And so I, so I pull over as if somebody would do and, and then just as I open the door to my car, I'm like, oh, is this one of those things, the setup where I get out, I help the guy and then somebody takes my car or whatever, or you know, jumps me or whatever it is. So, so.

• 21:21Sean Hayes?

  I'd love to see you get taken over by that guy and the other dude that's hiding behind the mailbox. And them just taking your car and your clothes.

• 21:30Will Arnett?

  By the way.

• 21:32Sean Hayes?

  And just leaving you.

• 21:34Will Arnett?

  Them tying you up and them not understanding how much you're enjoying it.

• 21:41Sean Hayes?

  And I'm just going, no, stop, no, ouch. You don't want these clothes? Oh, God.

• 21:47Will Arnett?

  You don't want these?

• 21:58Sean Hayes?

  No, wait. How am I gonna get home naked? You'll figure it out. Okay. All right, so, oh my God.

• 22:12Will Arnett?

  So you end up lying in the middle of the road so somebody pulls over for you. It's a cycle.

• 22:21Sean Hayes?

  Cause now you need a ride. How am I gonna get home? By the way.

• 22:28Will Arnett?

  So sorry, Amy.

• 22:29Speaker 03

  It's okay, no, I love it. You're kidding.

• 22:32Sean Hayes?

  I was only a few blocks from home, too.

• 22:34Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 22:35Sean Hayes?

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• 26:27Sean Hayes?

  And now, back to the show.

• 26:31Sean Hayes?

  All right, so. So you're about to get out of the car. You think it might be a thing. But then I was like, but the guy could see it's real in really, real pain. God, this is a long way to go to get to the question. But I, so I get out and the guy just got shot. The guy was shot. Oh, yeah. I did take off my shirt and I put, I didn't know what I was doing, like to your point, like emergencies, like, you know, fight or flight. So I was like, I know I'm gonna do this. So nobody was around. And so I took my shirt off. I put it on the bullet wound on his stomach. Okay, just to hold it over for some pressure, not a tourniquet or anything. Correct. Well, yeah, a makeshift tourniquet. And so I'm pulling on, and I'm dialing 911 on my phone. Meanwhile, other people have heard it and now are starting to coming out of their houses, right?

• 27:15Sean Hayes?

  And so they already called too. You starting to feel self-conscious about being topless? A little bit, a little bit, a little bit.

• 27:22Will Arnett?

  Were you actually topless?

• 27:23Sean Hayes?

  I was, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so I. Not everyone wears a undershirt, granddad. Yeah.

• 27:32Sean Hayes?

  And so, yeah, so the guy, I don't know, that's so finally the ambulance came and everything and he lived and he was okay and everything was fine. He got the help he needed. And but but of course, the ambulance guy was like, are you Shauney?

• 27:44Will Arnett?

  No.

• 27:45Sean Hayes?

  With my hand on his stomach. I was like, yeah, but anyway, the point is.

• 27:48Will Arnett?

  Still topless.

• 27:49Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, still topless. So the and then we exchanged numbers. No, I'm kidding. Then, but the point is, yes, emergencies, I attack them. I don't run from them usually.

• 27:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, I get very focused. Like, everything becomes very focused in an emergency.

• 28:02Will Arnett?

  I'm sorry. Was that whole story about the time that you saved the dude's life?

• 28:05Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 28:06Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, because most people drive. He runs into a fire instead of away from a fire.

• 28:10Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, for sure.

• 28:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, I've come across a couple of scenes where we've been sort of the first people on the scene.

• 28:17Sean Hayes?

  Oh, really?

• 28:18Will Arnett?

  Really?

• 28:18Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 28:19Sean Hayes?

  Care to share?

• 28:20Will Arnett?

  Like what? Like where? Like?

• 28:21Speaker 03

  Uh, we were in Santa Monica and coming out of our favorite restaurant and I was with my dad and my dad is also very much like that, thankfully. And these people were screaming and a guy was walking and they're yelling, he's dying. And my husband's like, that's blood. And he think, I was like, Darren, you stay here with our daughter. We ran over and he'd been stabbed in the neck.

• 28:43Will Arnett?

  Oh, gosh.

• 28:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, so he was bleeding and his friends were freaking out. So luckily, we're going to the beach. We grabbed towels. My dad has been on lots of scenes. I guess he attracts them as well and applied pressure. And I'm sitting there somehow going, you need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath. And I was just so focused. I was like, I was like, the more you struggle, the faster you're gonna bleed. Just lay down. Let's elevate this. We were like, just, and yeah. And then I ran into him. A year later, a guy walks up to me in the restaurant. He's like, I heard a story that you and your dad were on the scene of a guy getting stabbed. And I was like, yeah, yeah, that's so funny. You heard that story? And he went like that. And I was like, oh, my God, it's you.

• 29:24Sean Hayes?

  And it was him.

• 29:25Will Arnett?

  No.

• 29:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, and it was him. And he was like, all teary and he had his son with him and.

• 29:29Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 29:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was so crazy.

• 29:31Will Arnett?

  Did he tell you what the situation was under which the reason that he got stabbed?

• 29:35Speaker 03

  I mean, as far as I could make out, it was, they had run into an old college friend and and had some drinks and then went to the liquor store. They were gonna go back to someone's house and he just freaked out. But I don't know kind of what the whole story is.

• 29:49Jason Bateman?

  Wow, wow, wow, wow. That's crazy.

• 29:52Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 29:52Jason Bateman?

  Would have been great if you and your dad started singing him a little song to calm him down.

• 29:56Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah, like a one man.

• 29:58Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, he had like a little pocket, pocket trombone or something.

• 30:02Speaker 03

  Yeah. Can you imagine? I just start singing like Giselle.

• 30:06Will Arnett?

  Well, your dad's playing and you're dancing.

• 30:07Speaker 03

  I'm like, stay away.

• 30:10Sean Hayes?

  That's calming, you know?

• 30:12Jason Bateman?

  That is calming.

• 30:13Speaker 03

  Start singing Mary Poppins.

• 30:14Will Arnett?

  That would have been nice. Wow, you really would have been great in an emergency room. This is, this is.

• 30:19Speaker 03

  I'm, I'm not that smart, but I'm, I'm that focused, so.

• 30:23Will Arnett?

  You're a lot smarter than we are, so.

• 30:24Speaker 03

  No, I don't think so.

• 30:25Sean Hayes?

  Have you ever played, have you ever played a, a, a, a medical person?

• 30:29Speaker 03

  You know, I did in, uh, Dr. Vegas. I played, uh,

• 30:35Will Arnett?

  Sure.

• 30:35Speaker 03

  Rob Lowe's, uh,

• 30:37Jason Bateman?

  Wait a second.

• 30:38Speaker 03

  RA.

• 30:39Jason Bateman?

  I need to see this.

• 30:40Will Arnett?

  Yeah, me too.

• 30:41Speaker 03

  And so I went and.

• 30:42Jason Bateman?

  What year, what year did, what year did we make this?

• 30:45Speaker 03

  Two thousand one. I actually, it's a good story. I was filming and they sent me home and I was mad because I was like, of course, the one project where you want to stay where they're filming in Vegas when I was like, you know, thirty, I was, and when I went home, I got the Junebug audition.

• 31:04Will Arnett?

  Oh.

• 31:04Sean Hayes?

  And then was filming Junebug when they reduced my role from, to recurring.

• 31:11Jason Bateman?

  Oh, he's bad.

• 31:11Will Arnett?

  On Dr. Vegas, on Dr. Vegas.

• 31:13Speaker 03

  On Dr. Vegas. And I was like, I'm good. They're like, you're just gonna leave? I'm like, yeah, I'm, I'm good. I feel like.

• 31:19Jason Bateman?

  I'm all set. Got an indie. Suck it.

• 31:22Speaker 03

  I just did an indie. I'm set.

• 31:25Will Arnett?

  I'm, I'm just gonna go ahead and get an Academy Award nomination over here, so I'm, I'm good. You want to reduce it?

• 31:30Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 31:32Speaker 03

  Look, I had no idea. I just was like, uh, anyway, it's a long story, but I, I did a shadow at Emergency Room Doctor.

• 31:39Sean Hayes?

  For that part, yeah.

• 31:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, and I was like.

• 31:41Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's gotta be fascinating.

• 31:42Jason Bateman?

  Did you not want to see? Did you see some things you didn't want to see?

• 31:45Speaker 03

  I think for me, I was just fascinated with the stories that kind of really helped me put things into perspective. I know, I'm so earnest. I told you guys. I, I just was so grateful and invested in people's personal stories. It's just.

• 31:59Sean Hayes?

  I was, you know, I, I, I'm a frequent flyer at the ER in, in Los Angeles.

• 32:04Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you want to give a shout out to Cedars, Freddie? Do you get a discount?

• 32:08Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, and I was lying there waiting to get.

• 32:10Jason Bateman?

  Extra couple of punches on your punch card. You get to your bonus earlier.

• 32:15Sean Hayes?

  For the cafeteria.

• 32:18Will Arnett?

  Sean's nickname is Paddles, by the way. This is true, Amy.

• 32:21Sean Hayes?

  Because I get Afib and they zap my heart back. Anyway, so, but one time I was in there, this is like two years ago, and the guy, some guy OD'd on drugs and they were trying to revive him and he died right next to me, in the room right next to me. It's so crazy to witness all of that.

• 32:35Jason Bateman?

  Willie and I play golf with Dr. Gary Shulman. He does ER doctor and the things that he knows how to do and he could save any life you put in front of him. I think it's incredible.

• 32:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's really amazing.

• 32:49Jason Bateman?

  And he's got a great short game, too. He can get up and down from anywhere, really.

• 32:53Will Arnett?

  By the way, let's be clear, he's got a great game all around. He's middle of the fairway.

• 32:57Jason Bateman?

  Long game, yeah.

• 32:58Will Arnett?

  I never see him in trouble.

• 32:59Jason Bateman?

  You never see him looking for a ball, ever. You want him as your teammate.

• 33:03Will Arnett?

  Yeah, Dr. Gary's been playing with the same ball for three years, definitely. Anyway, let's not...

• 33:08Jason Bateman?

  Nice man.

• 33:09Will Arnett?

  Shout out to Dr. Gary. You know, so, Amy, you've done so many things, but so many different kinds of roles, like comedy, drama, sci-fi. Is there one?

• 33:22Jason Bateman?

  The one I've seen the most is Enchantment.

• 33:25Speaker 03

  Enchanted?

• 33:25Jason Bateman?

  Or Enchanted.

• 33:26Speaker 03

  You nailed it.

• 33:27Will Arnett?

  Never saw Enchantment because it doesn't exist, but...

• 33:30Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I mean, you know, having two girls, you met both of them.

• 33:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, how are they doing? They must be...

• 33:36Jason Bateman?

  They're doing great, thanks. Yeah, they're...

• 33:38Will Arnett?

  He's heard they're doing great.

• 33:39Jason Bateman?

  They're not watching anymore. Yeah, but I mean, I knew that album backwards and forwards. Loved it.

• 33:45Speaker 03

  Thank you and I'm sorry.

• 33:47Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, no, no, it was fantastic. But I've seen them all, but that one a lot.

• 33:51Speaker 03

  I bet, yeah.

• 33:52Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, very good.

• 33:53Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 33:54Will Arnett?

  Do you have, like, a genre that you like doing more than, because you kind of, you've done, like I said, you've done it all. Like, you do, you work in comedy, you work in drama, you work in sci-fi. Like, is there one sort of lane that you feel more comfortable in, or do you just kind of, each one is just like a new opportunity to have fun and you don't really think about it?

• 34:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, I think each one's a new opportunity. I like working in different genres because it requires like a different... Approach to tone and it's a challenge and but I mean, I mean, I'm most comfortable in like musical theater, even at 51, if someone's like, you need to go play Belle. I'd be like, got it. Like, that's like, that's where my like, spirit lives, my like, younger, my inner child.

• 34:36Sean Hayes?

  Do you want to do more of it?

• 34:37Speaker 03

  I do. I, I did theater recently in London and I really do want to do more of it, but I think I'm so tired.

• 34:44Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 34:45Speaker 03

  It's so much work. I have so much respect for everybody who works on stage because doing that eight shows a week is really, really grueling. And so I'd have to really consider it. Maybe when my daughter is, uh.

• 34:57Sean Hayes?

  Gets a little older.

• 34:58Speaker 03

  Gets little, when she's out of the house, because I really want to be present for her.

• 35:02Sean Hayes?

  How old is she?

• 35:03Speaker 03

  She's gonna be 16 next Friday.

• 35:04Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow.

• 35:05Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 35:06Sean Hayes?

  That's amazing. Sweet 16.

• 35:08Jason Bateman?

  How are those driving lessons going?

• 35:10Speaker 03

  She has not started them yet. No, I.

• 35:12Jason Bateman?

  You haven't taken her out in your car and just like in an open parking lot and said, and just put her in the seat?

• 35:17Speaker 03

  Uh, not yet. No, I.

• 35:19Jason Bateman?

  Oh, my God.

• 35:20Speaker 03

  I am definitely, she has absolutely.

• 35:24Jason Bateman?

  No interest.

• 35:25Speaker 03

  No, she has interest, but she wants to get through finals before she starts studying for her permits test because she, she, uh, yeah, she likes to.

• 35:34Will Arnett?

  Disciplined. That's disciplined.

• 35:36Jason Bateman?

  This generation, though, is because of Uber. They're just, there's no.

• 35:39Sean Hayes?

  That's true. I didn't think of that.

• 35:42Jason Bateman?

  When we were kids, remember like the.

• 35:43Will Arnett?

  The day.

• 35:44Jason Bateman?

  The morning you turn 16, you're at the DMV.

• 35:47Will Arnett?

  No, my guys did. Art's got it immediately, but Abe's been kind of putting, well, he's can only get his lures because he's not 16 yet.

• 35:53Sean Hayes?

  You know what I thought would never happen, though, is that because Jason's right, when you turn 16, you're like, it, it, it signifies independence.

• 36:01Will Arnett?

  Yeah, freedom.

• 36:01Sean Hayes?

  Driving, right? Freedom. But now, and I thought, well, that will never go away, but with Waymo self-driving cars and Uber and stuff, maybe it's not a thing anymore. I don't know with kids.

• 36:10Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, but it is nice to be able to just like walk outside your house and climb into your car and go.

• 36:16Speaker 03

  It is. I think she's really gonna love that sensation when she sort of gets into it, but I respect, I'm letting her.

• 36:23Will Arnett?

  Are you still in driving her around mode or is she, is she leaning on the UBS like, like everybody?

• 36:28Speaker 03

  A little of both. I mean, we're a little more cautious with Ubers as long as she's with friends and stuff like that. So, but she loves a Waymo. That's her thing.

• 36:36Will Arnett?

  Yeah, we always say, there's, it's a known thing, Amy, that Jason has the personality of a Waymo driver.

• 36:44Will Arnett?

  That's just kind of known around the office here. Just around the office here.

• 36:50Sean Hayes?

  A Waymo driver.

• 36:53Jason Bateman?

  That's enough, Sean.

• 36:57Speaker 03

  So funny.

• 36:58Sean Hayes?

  I laughed.

• 36:58Will Arnett?

  By the way, I was gonna save this. Sean, I think you know this, and this is, you're gonna freak out again on Amy. You know she's in the new, she just wrapped the new Star Wars, right?

• 37:10Sean Hayes?

  What do you mean? The one with Ryan Gosling?

• 37:13Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 37:14Sean Hayes?

  Wait, I was on that set.

• 37:15Will Arnett?

  Okay, cool.

• 37:16Speaker 03

  Oh, amazing.

• 37:17Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, Sean Levy asked us to come visit, and we visited it for like a day.

• 37:22Will Arnett?

  What if you found out that Amy knew you were coming, and she's like, this guy fucking called me once in the toilet at the White House, this guy won't leave me alone.

• 37:29Speaker 03

  I had a very small part, yeah.

• 37:32Sean Hayes?

  You did? Wait, are you a fan or no?

• 37:34Speaker 03

  Oh my gosh, yeah.

• 37:36Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, huge.

• 37:37Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 37:37Sean Hayes?

  By the way, Tatooine.

• 37:39Speaker 03

  I mean, amazing.

• 37:40Sean Hayes?

  My Tatooine hat on today.

• 37:42Speaker 03

  I love it.

• 37:43Sean Hayes?

  I have my Tatooine hat on.

• 37:45Speaker 03

  Do you go to May the 4th Disney events at Disney? Because I've always wanted to go. Maybe next year, you and I, we'll figure it out.

• 37:52Sean Hayes?

  Oh my God, I would love it. Leave the kids at home, am I right?

• 37:56Speaker 03

  You're right.

• 37:58Will Arnett?

  I hate the May the 4th be with you, because that's my birthday, and I feel like they took it over. They took, no, I'm not, they took it over. Everybody's like, May the 4th, I'm like, enough!

• 38:06Sean Hayes?

  Wait, what, did you, did you get to hold all the props and whatever, and all the fantasy stuff? I love that.

• 38:12Speaker 03

  Went to the creature shop twice.

• 38:15Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I went to the creature shop too, isn't that wild?

• 38:17Jason Bateman?

  Careful, Sean, watch the paddles.

• 38:19Sean Hayes?

  I saw the new, I saw the new, you know, their version of R2-D2, and the new one, which we, I couldn't post. We're not allowed to post.

• 38:28Will Arnett?

  Is he real?

• 38:30Jason Bateman?

  We just, we just racked focus, there's Scotty in the back just heating up the paddles. Rubbing them together, getting them ready. Oh, he's talking about the creature shop.

• 38:39Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 38:40Will Arnett?

  Charge!

• 38:40Sean Hayes?

  Wasn't that, but, but, and then the guy, I met the guy who created BB-8.

• 38:44Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:45Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's wild.

• 38:46Speaker 03

  It's so cool.

• 38:47Sean Hayes?

  It's wild.

• 38:47Speaker 03

  I mean, I'll talk about this, I'm sure, down the road, but like, I don't know what I'm allowed to talk about, but I was so nervous the first day of working, like, I forgot how to act. I'm sure Sean Levy's like, Amy, are you okay? And I'm like, no, I'm just not a guy.

• 39:00Sean Hayes?

  Because of all the stuff that was around you, and like, were this?

• 39:02Speaker 03

  No, just like, I'm on a Star Wars set.

• 39:05Sean Hayes?

  I know, right?

• 39:06Speaker 03

  And I like, love, I grew up on this. This is like, I have to now get out of my like... Dorky fangirl place and go into like professional actress and like combining the two was really hard. So I had to like.

• 39:18Jason Bateman?

  Could you feel it? Was it palpable? I mean, were the sets big? Was the camera gear like all like?

• 39:25Speaker 03

  It's so cool, you guys. It's just so cool. I'm like not allowed to talk about anything, of course, but I can tell you it's so cool. And the kid in it is so great. I just.

• 39:35Jason Bateman?

  What about, what about like, was there a lot of, like, were the sets real? Were the weapons real?

• 39:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 39:42Jason Bateman?

  Was it all like sort of green screens and, you know?

• 39:45Speaker 03

  It's a mix, but it's.

• 39:47Jason Bateman?

  A mix, yeah.

• 39:48Speaker 03

  It was, it was, it's enough to like get the feels. You know what I mean?

• 39:52Jason Bateman?

  And then you got the great Sean Levy there, just like.

• 39:54Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 39:55Sean Hayes?

  He's the best. I love him.

• 39:56Jason Bateman?

  Energy and enthusiasm and kindness.

• 39:59Speaker 03

  And speaking of Arrival, he was one of the producers on Arrival.

• 40:02Jason Bateman?

  He was?

• 40:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, I worked with him at Night at the Museum.

• 40:06Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's crazy.

• 40:07Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:07Will Arnett?

  So you do the Star Wars and then you got another, you got a sci fi film coming out later this year that you did with our buddy Taika.

• 40:13Jason Bateman?

  What's that?

• 40:13Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah. I was like, I do? I was like, yes, yes. Yeah, we did that like over two years ago now. So, yeah.

• 40:21Will Arnett?

  Whoa.

• 40:21Jason Bateman?

  Are you a sci fi fan?

• 40:23Speaker 03

  I do like sci fi. Yeah.

• 40:24Will Arnett?

  There's such a, you have like so like Star Warsy sci fi, like this is like, seems to be a genre that you're very comfortable in.

• 40:30Jason Bateman?

  Superman?

• 40:31Speaker 03

  Oh, I love it. I love it. Yeah.

• 40:33Jason Bateman?

  But she's funny as hell, too, and can sing and dance. And let's not, we haven't even gotten to the drama part of it all. I mean.

• 40:40Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 40:41Speaker 03

  I do. I do love a good drama.

• 40:43Will Arnett?

  Do you want to leave any for anybody else? Like, what's going on?

• 40:47Jason Bateman?

  How great were you in Doubt? I saw that play and I was like, wow, this play is one of the best plays. And then the movie with you and Meryl Streep and.

• 40:53Speaker 03

  How good is, are Meryl and Philip in that?

• 40:57Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 40:57Speaker 03

  Getting to sit through the rehearsals with them was, it's my entire actor training.

• 41:02Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I'm sure.

• 41:03Speaker 03

  I never went to college or conservatory. So I really feel like that was how I learned how to act.

• 41:09Jason Bateman?

  And everybody showed up on set off book, probably. Just no, there's nobody has side, right? Everybody just knows their stuff.

• 41:13Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah. By that time, we, we really knew it. Yeah. I mean, I mean, it's, it's Meryl.

• 41:19Will Arnett?

  Was it a lot, was it a lot of rehearsal for that film? More than usual?

• 41:24Speaker 03

  I would say so, yeah.

• 41:25Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 41:26Speaker 03

  It was a while ago. It was amazing.

• 41:28Jason Bateman?

  So then, wait, did you just say that you did not go to drama school?

• 41:32Speaker 03

  I did not, no.

• 41:33Jason Bateman?

  No? And so what would you attribute your talent to? Was it just a...

• 41:39Speaker 03

  A lonely childhood.

• 41:41Will Arnett?

  Yeah, how'd you get so talented?

• 41:43Speaker 03

  A lonely childhood.

• 41:44Jason Bateman?

  Was it just like an innate, an innate sense of what would be...

• 41:48Speaker 03

  I don't know. Honestly, Jason, I really don't know. I think I've always just been... I read a lot and I've always been plugged into characters and how and why and what motivates them and all of that, and I think it just sort of started translating into acting. I never, I honestly, I also, when I moved to L.A., I started working with an acting coach

• 42:09Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 42:09Speaker 03

  later on, after I'd started working. And that was really helpful because she helped sort of ground me a bit more instead of being very big, so that was good.

• 42:17Jason Bateman?

  Well, that's what I was gonna say, yeah, because theater is sort of at odds with your incredible level of subtlety when you're doing on-camera work. You know, I mean, it like, it's just, it's just masterful how little you have the discipline to do, which, you know, if you did that on stage, the people in the front row would be able to read it, but that'd be about it, you know?

• 42:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 42:41Jason Bateman?

  I mean, it's great.

• 42:42Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 42:43Jason Bateman?

  But oftentimes, you'll see theater actors that are sometimes maybe just a little bit bigger on screen. Right. But you do not suffer that at all. It's really, really impressive.

• 42:53Speaker 03

  Well, I absolutely love people's inner life. Like, if I could know what people were thinking at all times, I'd be so happy.

• 42:59Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that's what I love about watching your performances, that, yeah, I lean in, I try to read your mind, you know? There's stuff going on inside as opposed to...

• 43:06Will Arnett?

  I told you guys, you gotta watch this new doc that's coming out later this year. I was telling Shawnee about it. It's called, it's based on the podcast, that really popular podcast, The Telepathy Tapes, about the non-verbal...

• 43:15Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 43:16Will Arnett?

  There's a doc, I just saw a screening of the doc.

• 43:18Speaker 03

  How, is it good?

• 43:20Will Arnett?

  It's unbelievable.

• 43:22Jason Bateman?

  Wait, what is it?

• 43:23Will Arnett?

  Dude, it's a super popular podcast. Yeah. And called The Telepathy Tapes, and they made a doc at the same time, and it's coming out later this year, and it's unbelievable. I had goosebumps the entire time watching it, talking about it.

• 43:38Jason Bateman?

  It was real popular at the same time the Richard Simmons podcast.

• 43:41Will Arnett?

  Sean, stop mentioning the Richard Simmons. Every time I mention this, Sean brings up the Richard Simmons podcast, I swear to God. Sean, why?

• 43:48Jason Bateman?

  No, I mean, how would that be?

• 43:50Will Arnett?

  Leave it.

• 43:50Jason Bateman?

  An ease?

• 43:51Will Arnett?

  Leave it.

• 43:53Jason Bateman?

  An easy reference for everyone.

• 43:55Will Arnett?

  Yeah, just let it stand on its own. Let it stand on its own. Why do you have to mention the fucking Richard Simmons podcast every time?

• 44:01Jason Bateman?

  No, because it was, because at that time, it was years and years ago. Those were the two most popular. I've never heard of a Richard Simmons podcast. Oh, God, you would love it. It's so wild. It's crazy.

• 44:10Will Arnett?

  Here we go. You love it. For fucking fuck's sake, man.

• 44:16Jason Bateman?

  Now, wait, Willie, the reason that you were seeing this earlier than when it's coming out is because that makes me think maybe we're gonna have somebody from it on the podcast coming up. Did you get a little, a little early link or something?

• 44:26Will Arnett?

  I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

• 44:28Jason Bateman?

  There's a guest, a guest coming?

• 44:29Will Arnett?

  Look at you putting, look at you putting some stuff together.

• 44:32Jason Bateman?

  I used to be a cop.

• 44:33Will Arnett?

  I know. Look at you. It's honestly, you guys, it's so fascinating and Amy talking about like, people understanding what other people are thinking and stuff.

• 44:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 44:41Will Arnett?

  It is a fucking mind blow.

• 44:43Jason Bateman?

  Did you listen to that, Amy? Did you listen to that podcast?

• 44:45Speaker 03

  Yeah, I did, actually. I listened to. I didn't get towards the end of the telepathy. It started to get, I don't wanna, you know, it started to get a little like, it twisted a bit. I don't wanna give any spoilers.

• 44:56Will Arnett?

  Yeah, but it's, it's, I, I found it, I mean, it was just stunning and I'd listened to the podcast too, but anyway, yeah, yeah, I don't know how we got here, but boy, it's good.

• 45:06Speaker 03

  It's really good.

• 45:07Will Arnett?

  Yeah, but what was your, so this is what I was gonna say. What was your first pro gig as an actor? Your first paying job?

• 45:15Speaker 03

  Like exclusively as an actor or does, does a dancer like?

• 45:19Will Arnett?

  As an actor. As an actor, actor, what was your first?

• 45:21Speaker 03

  Actor, actor. I did a commercial for Omaha National Bank.

• 45:31Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 45:31Speaker 03

  Where I lip synced. So I guess it's, I mean, it's, I lip synced to summer loving, but turned into summer banking.

• 45:40Will Arnett?

  Had me a blast.

• 45:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 45:42Jason Bateman?

  Sure.

• 45:43Will Arnett?

  Summer bacon. Had me a blast. Boom, boom.

• 45:47Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 45:48Speaker 03

  But then, but then in, uh, when I started, I was cast in Drop Dead Gorgeous out of Minnesota. So that was like my first like thing.

• 45:57Will Arnett?

  First thing, and then what was your first like, what was your first, did you do like a lot of, cause I know, obviously you did Dr. Vegas, we all know that, uh, we're talking about Rob Lowe. I still call him Dr. Vegas.

• 46:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:09Will Arnett?

  What was your first, like, did you start doing guest bots on shows?

• 46:13Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 46:14Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 46:15Speaker 03

  I did all the guest bots.

• 46:16Will Arnett?

  You did?

• 46:17Speaker 03

  I was on Charmed, I was on Buffy, I was on, uh, Back 70's Show.

• 46:22Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 46:22Speaker 03

  West Wing.

• 46:23Will Arnett?

  Oh, wow.

• 46:25Jason Bateman?

  We'll be right back.

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• 47:45Jason Bateman?

  And back to the show.

• 47:48Jason Bateman?

  What was the point when you figured that you might be safe? You might not need to have to study something else? Or have a second job? Or when did it seem?

• 47:59Speaker 03

  Yesterday.

• 48:00Jason Bateman?

  You could make a living?

• 48:02Speaker 03

  Um, I think it was after, I think it was after Enchanted.

• 48:09Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, cuz that was a big movie, yeah.

• 48:11Speaker 03

  It's funny cuz by the time Enchanted came out, I'd been nominated, but I still didn't see that as like anything that cemented me as secure. I just saw that as like an amazing, like, one-off.

• 48:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 48:23Speaker 03

  So.

• 48:23Jason Bateman?

  But having the box office of Enchanted, right? There's a different thing with that, isn't there?

• 48:28Speaker 03

  And I also think it was like the most confident at that point I'd ever been in a role. Cuz even when I read the script, and I am not somebody who says this. I looked at my husband and went, I don't know who else you're gonna get for this. Like, I just was like, no, no, no, no. I just, and I honestly, I'm not that person. I would cast someone else in every role I've done. Like, I'm not competitive like that. But I read that one and was like, well, well, this is mine.

• 48:56Jason Bateman?

  I'm good in that.

• 48:57Speaker 03

  Just cuz I felt like I really understood that world and the duality of her.

• 49:02Will Arnett?

  But then you also do like, then you go on to do a couple of films with David O. Russell, some gritty films. You do The Fighter, which is super gritty and such a great film.

• 49:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, David, that was huge. Cuz David really, I say take a chance, but no one really saw me that way.

• 49:19Will Arnett?

  Uh huh.

• 49:20Speaker 03

  And then there was something about an interaction he had with me that kind of was like, wait.

• 49:24Will Arnett?

  You got in his face about like a valet ticket or something?

• 49:27Speaker 03

  You're terrifying. No. No, I think he just.

• 49:30Will Arnett?

  I was here first.

• 49:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, something like that.

• 49:33Will Arnett?

  Wait, was David, did you stab David O. Russell in the neck and then you and your dad saved him? Is that what happened?

• 49:39Speaker 03

  No, it was not David O. Russell.

• 49:41Will Arnett?

  So you were surprised when David called you with that?

• 49:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, I was. I was. I always like to say, I have like such memories of where I was when things happened.

• 49:50Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 49:50Speaker 03

  Huge for me. And that was, I was in Ireland filming Leap Year, like this romantic comedy, which helped me learn that I was not good at romantic comedy, though I loved the film. I just was like, this is, there are people who are really good at this, and I don't think that's me. I don't think.

• 50:05Jason Bateman?

  There's nothing you're not good at. Yeah, come on.

• 50:08Speaker 03

  No, it's just, I'm too earnest. Like, I want to turn it into like Wuthering Heights and like, I just don't have that turn of phrase that some people are so good at. I'm just so earnest. It's so irritating. I've learned to accept it.

• 50:21Jason Bateman?

  What about, what about, did your, did your, did your eyes light up like mine would if I got a call from Paul Thomas Anderson? Like, The Master is one of my favorite, favorite films ever.

• 50:32Sean Hayes?

  The Master was great.

• 50:34Speaker 03

  Paul is one of those people that I will forever want to impress. It doesn't matter what I'm doing, what I'm saying, a text. I am just, I just love him so much. Just as a person, too.

• 50:45Jason Bateman?

  Agreed.

• 50:46Speaker 03

  Yeah. I actually met him at a house party.

• 50:50Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 50:51Speaker 03

  And I kind of ran the riot act because he had, he had, it's a lot, I don't want to get Paul in trouble, but he had.

• 50:59Jason Bateman?

  He took the last piece of pizza.

• 51:01Speaker 03

  He took the last piece of pizza. No, no, there was a mutual friend that was a little drunk and acting a little silly, and he was encouraging it, you know, having fun. And I was like, that is highly irresponsible. Now, to be fair, I was 10 weeks pregnant.

• 51:14Jason Bateman?

  Uh huh.

• 51:15Speaker 03

  And I was not telling anybody, so I was agitated. And then I looked at air and I was like, I can't believe I just yelled at like my favorite filmmaker of all time. I'm like, I'm never gonna get to work with him. I don't know what I've done. But I was so like.

• 51:26Jason Bateman?

  That's what it took.

• 51:27Speaker 03

  And then I got cast. He's like, who can yell at Philip Seymour Hoffman?

• 51:32Jason Bateman?

  Who can be stern?

• 51:33Speaker 03

  Who's that girl?

• 51:35Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 51:35Speaker 03

  I don't know if that's why he called me, but.

• 51:37Jason Bateman?

  Oh, just loved it.

• 51:39Speaker 03

  He's so great. Yeah, I still, anytime I hear from Paul, I'm excited, but yeah. He's wonderful.

• 51:45Will Arnett?

  So you do that, I mean, and then, and then you go and then you jump into the like the, the, the DC world, the Zack Snyder-y sort of Superman, like that whole world.

• 51:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:56Will Arnett?

  It's, it's amazing. You just have all these like different, like really distinct lanes and stuff that you do tonally so different. Did you feel, when you get that call, you're like, yeah, yeah, this is something that I'm into.

• 52:06Speaker 03

  Uh, no, I, again, I'm just super dorky and loved Superman. So I was like, ooh, I get to play Lois. I was just, I grew up loving Superman. Like I'm, I really am like meant for Comic Con, like to go down there in costume. Like that's, I'm dorky. Yeah, I love it. I love dorky. Darren's a dork. You've met my husband. We're both just dorky, earnest people.

• 52:29Will Arnett?

  Are you big Halloween, are you Halloween people?

• 52:32Speaker 03

  Um, yes.

• 52:33Jason Bateman?

  Sure you are. You bop around with Melissa and Ben and you guys get all dolled up and do your thing.

• 52:39Speaker 03

  That was our movie club thing.

• 52:41Jason Bateman?

  Right. But it's still, you guys, yeah, these guys, they'd watch a movie.

• 52:44Speaker 03

  Yeah. Oh, I do love a dress up. I love a theme party. I'm that girl.

• 52:48Jason Bateman?

  Sure.

• 52:49Speaker 03

  I have to like pull myself back if someone says theme party. Darren's like, Amy, you don't have to be, you can just have a suggestion of, but.

• 52:56Jason Bateman?

  Ugly Christmas sweater party. Yeah, sign you up, right?

• 52:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 53:00Sean Hayes?

  I went to a seventies birthday party a few months ago. I already had a dress in 1970s clothes. And I was like, oh, we're going, we have to really go do it. And then you go, it's kind of fun.

• 53:09Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 53:09Will Arnett?

  Well, luckily, Sean, you didn't have to buy a costume for that, right? You just went into your wardrobe.

• 53:14Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, Sean, what'd you put together for that?

• 53:16Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 53:17Sean Hayes?

  I put, I think I had photos.

• 53:18Jason Bateman?

  Hot shorts?

• 53:20Sean Hayes?

  Uh huh. No, I put bell bottom pants, a big, a big wig, you know, some gold chains and some, you know, opened, yeah, an aboa.

• 53:28Jason Bateman?

  Done.

• 53:29Sean Hayes?

  All right. Thank you.

• 53:30Will Arnett?

  And Scotty get dressed too?

• 53:31Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, we both did. Let me specify the picture.

• 53:33Will Arnett?

  Yeah, sure.

• 53:33Speaker 03

  I used to get dressed up for auditions, guys. Like I would go in costume, right?

• 53:38Will Arnett?

  Did you really?

• 53:39Speaker 03

  Yeah. I didn't quite, and then like other girls would be coming out looking absolutely beautiful. And I would be like, oh, I guess.

• 53:47Speaker 03

  I guess I look like I want it too much, which is probably why I didn't work in the beginning. I hadn't sort of cracked the code of neutrality. I was like, it's me.

• 53:56Will Arnett?

  I don't know. I feel like you did everything.

• 53:59Speaker 03

  I have the pants.

• 54:00Will Arnett?

  I feel like you did everything really, I think you did everything pretty damn well. And then now.

• 54:07Jason Bateman?

  Your daughter doesn't, does your daughter seem like she is attracted to maybe going that direction too, or no?

• 54:13Speaker 03

  Not in performing, and only recently on the set of Star Wars, on our way to the creature shop, she looked at me and said, Mom, do you think I could find a career in film?

• 54:22Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow.

• 54:24Speaker 03

  And I said, yeah, absolutely.

• 54:25Jason Bateman?

  And did you guys start to talk about different parts of it?

• 54:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, so we're constantly talking about different, she's like, because I love, I love travel, I love meeting new people, I like every day being different, and this is really like the best suited job for everything I want my life to look like. So, yeah, so she kind of switched her motivation. She's still like really interested in psychology, like which I love. So she and I are constantly talking about human behavior, which is fun with a 16 year old. But it actually is, she's very intuitive and insightful. Yeah.

• 55:00Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 55:01Speaker 03

  So we'll see.

• 55:01Jason Bateman?

  So isn't it neat how the conversations change over years? Like, you know, like as much as you might miss the toddler age, it's like, well, you couldn't really talk about, you know, global issues with them. Now you can get their take on that.

• 55:15Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, because they're so involved now.

• 55:17Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 55:17Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 55:18Will Arnett?

  And they get so much, and they get so much information thrown at them too.

• 55:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, I want to take her over to the Groundlings to take the class because she's really quick witted and mean. And I'm like, hey, you'd be great in comedy.

• 55:30Will Arnett?

  Oh, we like, we like that.

• 55:32Speaker 03

  Mean like, like she's not a mean person, but like her wit is so biting.

• 55:36Jason Bateman?

  Biting, sarcastic.

• 55:38Speaker 03

  My husband's like, oh, and I just think it's, when she, when she nails me, I laugh so hard. It's really funny. So.

• 55:45Will Arnett?

  It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. Speaking of psychological. You've got a psychological thriller series on Apple TV.

• 55:52Jason Bateman?

  Cape Fear.

• 55:52Speaker 03

  Dude, you're so good at bringing it back, Will.

• 55:54Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 55:55Speaker 03

  I appreciate that.

• 55:56Will Arnett?

  Thank you.

• 55:56Jason Bateman?

  He's been nominated.

• 55:57Will Arnett?

  Thank you.

• 55:57Speaker 03

  I appreciate that. That's a skill.

• 56:00Will Arnett?

  Thank you, Amy.

• 56:00Jason Bateman?

  You've been nominated in the group.

• 56:02Will Arnett?

  The group.

• 56:03Jason Bateman?

  Group host. Sean got singled out.

• 56:06Will Arnett?

  Sean one time got singled out as best host interviewer.

• 56:10Jason Bateman?

  Of a podcast.

• 56:11Will Arnett?

  Of a podcast.

• 56:12Jason Bateman?

  And he's part of a threesome.

• 56:13Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 56:13Jason Bateman?

  They singled him out.

• 56:15Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 56:15Jason Bateman?

  He did not win.

• 56:17Sean Hayes?

  I did not win, yeah.

• 56:17Jason Bateman?

  Let me finish.

• 56:18Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. It's because I was held down by two others.

• 56:20Will Arnett?

  And I would say, I would say he's sloppy at best.

• 56:26Jason Bateman?

  Contributive.

• 56:27Will Arnett?

  Oh, there they are. There's Sean Scotty.

• 56:29Jason Bateman?

  It's the 70s. Yeah, nice.

• 56:31Speaker 03

  Oh, that's good. I like you have hard copies too, guys. Those are hard copies.

• 56:35Jason Bateman?

  Scotty had them.

• 56:36Will Arnett?

  Yeah, they're beautiful. So let's talk about Cape Fear for a little bit. You and Javier Bardem, I mean, sick. What a cast. Patrick Wilson.

• 56:44Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 56:44Will Arnett?

  My doppelganger.

• 56:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, I was gonna say you sort of look like his brother.

• 56:48Will Arnett?

  He and I, yeah. We've taken selfies before.

• 56:51Jason Bateman?

  You guys could do, now, I was, I was actually, well, I'm very cultured, so I was watching PBS Great Performances last night. And there was Patrick Wilson doing Rodgers and Hammerstein.

• 57:01Sean Hayes?

  Which one? Which?

• 57:02Speaker 03

  He's so good, you guys.

• 57:03Jason Bateman?

  Like a medley of things, along with a few other actors, but.

• 57:06Will Arnett?

  Sean, let's give us a number. Five, six, seven, eight.

• 57:09Sean Hayes?

  Oh, God, there's a billion. There's a billion Rodgers and Hammerstein.

• 57:12Jason Bateman?

  But, but did you, did you, did you and Patrick ever break out into song at all during some of the setups?

• 57:20Speaker 03

  So he's a little bit more disciplined than I am when it comes to the singing, probably because he does it professionally and I do it because I just love it and it's fun, so.

• 57:32Speaker 03

  What, the first time he did sing, I thought I was being punked because we were talking about some of our favorite concerts we've seen. And I said, you know, oh, I went and saw the Indigo Girls in Red Rocks, like 1992, 93, and I just, it was such a good concert. He's like, I love the Indigo Girls. And I was like, you don't love the Indigo. And he started singing like a deep cut from one of the albums and we harmonized for a bit and I was like.

• 57:57Jason Bateman?

  Singing like a songbird, right?

• 58:00Speaker 03

  Guys.

• 58:01Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 58:01Speaker 03

  I was like, we're gonna be best friends. We're gonna have so much fun. We like the same things.

• 58:06Jason Bateman?

  Put your number in my phone right now.

• 58:08Speaker 03

  We like the same things. It was a lot.

• 58:11Will Arnett?

  But just, yeah, I mean, we are, all of us just talking about it, I feel like we are close, the closer we are to find, you know what I mean?

• 58:18Speaker 03

  Yes, exactly.

• 58:19Will Arnett?

  That's a deep cut.

• 58:20Speaker 03

  But yes, Cape Fear, Patrick's great, Javier is great.

• 58:24Jason Bateman?

  I mean, yeah, this would have, sick cast.

• 58:27Speaker 03

  For it being so like challenging and difficult, like content wise and sort of the physicality, it was so much fun. And shot in Atlanta, I shot with a lot of your crew from Ozark, I believe.

• 58:40Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I think.

• 58:41Will Arnett?

  They recovered? They were able to recover.

• 58:44Jason Bateman?

  Amanda Marsalis, I think, directed an episode or two, yeah?

• 58:47Speaker 03

  She did too, yeah.

• 58:48Sean Hayes?

  I just worked with her.

• 58:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 58:49Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 58:50Speaker 03

  She's lovely.

• 58:50Will Arnett?

  Oh, we like Amanda, she's really nice, I like her.

• 58:52Speaker 03

  Yeah, she was great.

• 58:54Jason Bateman?

  No, I can't wait to see that show. I've watched the trailer a couple of times, it looks fantastic, does look like a lot of night shoots, which, you know, I'd have an issue with.

• 59:01Speaker 03

  You know, there's a lot of, a lot of night shoots.

• 59:05Will Arnett?

  Was it more splits?

• 59:06Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, maybe we can just tent.

• 59:07Speaker 03

  Honestly, it was, it was challenging, we couldn't block shoot because we had a lot of directors, so it was challenging back, so we could never block shoot, so it was a lot, it wasn't.

• 59:19Sean Hayes?

  So for Tracy, Jay, or Amy, explain what block shooting means.

• 59:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, Jason, you do it here, yeah.

• 59:25Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you shoot out, like if, all the, all the scenes that take place in this one particular location, no matter what episode they're in, we're gonna shoot them all in a row, so that we never have to come back to this location.

• 59:37Sean Hayes?

  She can knock out that location, yeah.

• 59:38Will Arnett?

  It's cheaper for budgetary reasons, yeah.

• 59:40Jason Bateman?

  Right, right.

• 59:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, when I did Sharp Objects, we did a lot of block shooting and that was nice.

• 59:44Jason Bateman?

  Another great project, I mean, you could go on and on.

• 59:47Sean Hayes?

  I know, it's amazing, your resume's incredible.

• 59:50Jason Bateman?

  You're doing okay.

• 59:51Speaker 03

  I'm doing okay, thank you, Jason.

• 59:52Will Arnett?

  You are, you are, you are at the tip top of what you do, you are so, so good in everything.

• 59:58Speaker 03

  You guys are so sweet.

• 59:59Will Arnett?

  You've never, and we talked about, there are very few people, you're one of those people, and we talked, John Goodman, we hold up as the gold center, I always do, have never a bad performance, no matter what you do, never a bad performance, and same for you.

• 1:00:11Speaker 03

  There's still time.

• 1:00:12Will Arnett?

  No, no, Amy, you're so good, you're so talented.

• 1:00:15Jason Bateman?

  Do you, do you allow yourself to, this is a tough question to answer, but do, do you?

• 1:00:19Will Arnett?

  We've had more of our time than we're allowed, but go ahead.

• 1:00:22Jason Bateman?

  Oh shit, we are over.

• 1:00:23Speaker 03

  Sorry. You can cut a lot of my stuff out.

• 1:00:26Jason Bateman?

  No, no, no, we're gonna let you go. But do you allow yourself to sort of like say, hey, you know, I've, I've done, I've done alright and I'm like only halfway done? And, and, and I thought maybe I was just gonna, you know, gonna just sing and dance in front of mom and dad.

• 1:00:40Will Arnett?

  Don't say halfway, that's cause she's gonna be exhausted.

• 1:00:42Speaker 03

  No, no.

• 1:00:43Jason Bateman?

  But I mean, it's, uh, it's really, really impressive.

• 1:00:46Will Arnett?

  It is.

• 1:00:47Jason Bateman?

  What you've done and what you will continue to do and you're still ascendant and, uh, I just.

• 1:00:53Speaker 03

  Well, you know, I adore you and I'm just grateful. Like, I appreciate it. Thank you. I'm, I'm just grateful. I think like I'm 51 now and I think being in my 50s is the greatest. I'm so grounded and I just feel grateful and kind of open to whatever, whatever comes and grateful for what I've been able to do. And it's a great time of reflection.

• 1:01:12Jason Bateman?

  It shows.

• 1:01:13Speaker 03

  And Jason, I will say, I think this is the longest I've ever talked to you cause you're normally ducking out of parties.

• 1:01:18Jason Bateman?

  I know.

• 1:01:19Sean Hayes?

  Oh wow, that's sound like you.

• 1:01:20Will Arnett?

  Let's get into that.

• 1:01:21Speaker 03

  So I'm so excited to get to talk to you.

• 1:01:22Jason Bateman?

  Something both these boys know, you know, I just, I, I, I go out and then, and then it's time to go home.

• 1:01:29Speaker 03

  No, you're smart. I, I.

• 1:01:31Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's time to get into bed.

• 1:01:32Sean Hayes?

  Like Jay always says, there's, there's a window of energy and once that energy's up, that's it.

• 1:01:37Speaker 03

  That's smart.

• 1:01:38Jason Bateman?

  Well, I'm an introvert and also I don't drink anymore. And so it's like, it's usually the last two hours of the party, you gotta have a little in you. Otherwise it's the stuff that's being talked about is just not that interesting.

• 1:01:50Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:52Jason Bateman?

  And the stuff ain't that funny.

• 1:01:53Speaker 03

  I'm usually the last person they are talking about that not interesting. I'll be like, I know.

• 1:01:58Jason Bateman?

  Can I top that off for you?

• 1:01:59Speaker 03

  No, no, no. I'm, anymore, I'll, I'll be leaving, uh, I'll be leaving at the same time. I'm too tired. I'm just tired.

• 1:02:06Will Arnett?

  Words to the wise, if you run into Jason in a social setting, just make sure you have a bunch of stuff loaded. Just try to keep him interested. Because he doesn't want to talk to you. Sounds like a really great guy, doesn't he?

• 1:02:16Jason Bateman?

  It's not true.

• 1:02:18Will Arnett?

  Fucking self-involved asshole. Jesus Christ, sometimes you do it for other people, not just for you, you fucking dick. God, you've had so much given to you. You've had so much attention and shit given to you your whole life. Why don't you fucking give back to other people? Noblesse oblige.

• 1:02:32Jason Bateman?

  All right. Just ask some questions?

• 1:02:34Will Arnett?

  Amy Adams.

• 1:02:35Sean Hayes?

  What a pleasure.

• 1:02:36Will Arnett?

  You're just a delight. We love you. You're so great. And thank you so much. We can't wait for Cape Fear on Apple TV. It's fantastic. And we just, just continued success. You're just the great.

• 1:02:48Speaker 03

  Thanks, guys. Thanks for having me on. I could talk to you guys for hours.

• 1:02:51Sean Hayes?

  Likewise.

• 1:02:52Jason Bateman?

  Hugs and kisses to Darren.

• 1:02:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, to Amanda and the girls as well.

• 1:02:56Sean Hayes?

  Thank you, honey.

• 1:02:56Jason Bateman?

  Thank you.

• 1:02:57Will Arnett?

  Bye, bye, bye.

• 1:02:57Jason Bateman?

  Thanks, Amy.

• 1:02:58Will Arnett?

  Bye, bye, bye.

• 1:02:58Jason Bateman?

  Bye, bye.

• 1:02:59Speaker 03

  Bye.

• 1:03:04Jason Bateman?

  Double A, right there. I married to a double A. Amanda. Yeah, Amy Adams.

• 1:03:08Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah. Amy Adams. That's right. Two As, two As, double A. And she's, she's, what a career. Every single thing you guys remember, I'm like, oh, that's right. Oh, that's right. Oh, my God, that's right.

• 1:03:17Will Arnett?

  I mean, everything's quality. Everything's quality.

• 1:03:19Sean Hayes?

  Always.

• 1:03:20Jason Bateman?

  And even if it's not, she's the best thing in it. I mean, it's like, she's just, she's, it never sucks.

• 1:03:25Will Arnett?

  No, that's what, that's why, like, it's a very, that's a rare, rare air.

• 1:03:29Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, we all clank it every once in a while, but I don't, I think she's either buried the things that she hasn't been good in, or she's just never been bad.

• 1:03:36Sean Hayes?

  Remember Night Bitch? Did you guys see Night Bitch?

• 1:03:39Jason Bateman?

  I didn't, but I saw the trailer and I thought that, that looks cool.

• 1:03:42Sean Hayes?

  I liked that moment, just looking, I'm just pulled up all her stuff because I'm like, I can't believe.

• 1:03:47Jason Bateman?

  It's, it's awesome.

• 1:03:48Will Arnett?

  Oh, when you look at her, when you look at her things.

• 1:03:50Sean Hayes?

  It's amazing.

• 1:03:51Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it's insane.

• 1:03:52Sean Hayes?

  I was gonna ask what musical she was in. She was in Into the Woods. And in a 2013 Interview Magazine piece, she said she watched Bye Bye Birdie with her dad, who's a huge Anne Margaret fan, but she's never done that show. But it's a great title.

• 1:04:08Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yeah, I was gonna say, I'm surprised you didn't use Bye Bye Birdie for the goodbye, but it sounds like you might be doubling back on that show.

• 1:04:14Will Arnett?

  Well, it's one of those things. Look, look, you know what? He didn't, but everything happens for a Reese's, you know?

• 1:04:19Jason Bateman?

  There, you see? Told ya.

• 1:04:24Jason Bateman?

  Well, there's a re, there's a re-up coming, Will's way.

• 1:04:28Will Arnett?

  You mean a Reese's up? You guys!

• 1:04:32Will Arnett?

  So if you haven't already, get out and bye!

• 1:04:34Sean Hayes?

  Bye!

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• 1:04:51Will Arnett?

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