"Daniel Craig"

Lay out your reefer jacket and matching trousers, we have a Commander in the Royal Navy a.k.a. Mr. Daniel Craig giving orders this week. We examine self-reflections such as “do I want to turn into a film horse?” what it’s like to be a Storm Trooper, a numb thumb and no bump, and Room Service: LIVE! Just slide the potatoes under the door… it’s an all-new SmartLess.

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

• 0:01Sean Hayes?

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• 0:44Sean Hayes?

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• 2:21Jason Bateman?

  All right, so we're having a cold open contest right here. We're trying to create the world's worst cold open.

• 2:32Sean Hayes?

  I think this might be it.

• 2:33Jason Bateman?

  Well, not yet. I'm just teeing it up. Will, would you like to start the world's worst cold open?

• 2:40Will Arnett?

  Hey, man, it's freezing in here. Who left the door open?

• 2:44Sean Hayes?

  That's good.

• 2:45Jason Bateman?

  Pretty good. Welcome to Smartless.

• 3:04Jason Bateman?

  It feels like we haven't done this for quite a while.

• 3:07Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 3:08Jason Bateman?

  I miss you guys. Didn't we cancel a record last week, I think?

• 3:12Sean Hayes?

  Yes, we had to, yeah.

• 3:12Jason Bateman?

  So it's been a couple of weeks? Is that right?

• 3:15Will Arnett?

  Yeah. It's been a few weeks.

• 3:16Sean Hayes?

  Well, we saw each other Saturday.

• 3:18Will Arnett?

  We did.

• 3:19Jason Bateman?

  We did. But we haven't done this.

• 3:20Sean Hayes?

  This. We haven't done this in quite a while.

• 3:22Will Arnett?

  We haven't.

• 3:24Sean Hayes?

  Jay, how's your sty, by the way? Jason's got a big sty in his right eye.

• 3:28Jason Bateman?

  It's disgusting.

• 3:29Will Arnett?

  Are we going wide on this?

• 3:31Jason Bateman?

  I guess. I can lean into the zoom camera here. It's a little...

• 3:35Will Arnett?

  You know what? It actually looks... Is it better?

• 3:38Sean Hayes?

  It does look better.

• 3:39Jason Bateman?

  I started an antibiotic last night, so that's supposed to...

• 3:41Sean Hayes?

  Already?

• 3:42Jason Bateman?

  In the... Yeah, I know.

• 3:45Will Arnett?

  What do you want? You wanted to wait two weeks just to make sure?

• 3:48Jason Bateman?

  It's all about trying to find the right doctor. So, anyway, so I think I'm with the right one now. And this, what is now a ball bearing of pus that will not release from my eyelid, I think is gonna start to lessen and ultimately disappear.

• 4:02Will Arnett?

  So you found a full-release doctor?

• 4:04Jason Bateman?

  I did, yeah. And insurance covered it all.

• 4:08Sean Hayes?

  That's so stupid.

• 4:08Jason Bateman?

  It was a small copay, but...

• 4:10Will Arnett?

  I feel like the term "doctor" might be pretty loosely applied.

• 4:14Sean Hayes?

  Jay, I'm not... Jason, I'm not even kidding. Will you please... Will you please video this shit coming out?

• 4:20Jason Bateman?

  I asked him to drain me yesterday and...

• 4:22Will Arnett?

  Hang on. Again, this is the doctor?

• 4:25Sean Hayes?

  Can I get the number?

• 4:26Will Arnett?

  Because I feel like we're getting our signals.

• 4:28Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. He said, "No, just take this pill and you should be okay soon."

• 4:33Sean Hayes?

  Good, I hope so. I hope so.

• 4:35Jason Bateman?

  Until then, I'm gonna wear these glasses so people don't really see it.

• 4:38Will Arnett?

  Which is different, because Sean, you told me once that a guy gave you a pill and then he drained you. Is that true?

• 4:45Jason Bateman?

  All for a pretty affordable copay.

• 4:47Will Arnett?

  You woke up and you had been drained.

• 4:49Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, but I willingly, I, I willingly took the pill.

• 4:53Jason Bateman?

  I know you did.

• 4:53Sean Hayes?

  By the way, speaking of stuff, I'm not making this up, yesterday.

• 4:57Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 4:57Sean Hayes?

  I was, somehow I got on the subject, I was talking about this Saturday, too.

• 5:00Jason Bateman?

  Uh huh.

• 5:00Sean Hayes?

  I, I YouTube'd childbirth. I've never seen a child being birthed. I don't know, I kinda wanted to just see it.

• 5:08Jason Bateman?

  Hang on, how does your day, how does your day kind of like, kind of lay out where you find yourself on a YouTube search and then specifically for childbirth?

• 5:17Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, because I was talking to my friend Kevin about it and Carrie and she, and I don't know.

• 5:21Will Arnett?

  Kevin, Carrie, friends of the podcast.

• 5:23Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's correct, and all of us, and so, yeah, but, but they, uh, I don't know, we got on the subject of childbirth. Oh, because a friend of mine, because a friend of mine, a friend of ours just had a baby. And, uh, Chris Pratt and Catherine Schwarzenegger had a baby boy.

• 5:38Will Arnett?

  Yes, yes, congrats to them.

• 5:39Jason Bateman?

  Wait, do we need, we need to swear, we need to send a gift?

• 5:41Will Arnett?

  We gotta send them something.

• 5:42Jason Bateman?

  So, do you think they'll register?

• 5:44Will Arnett?

  Some smartless swear.

• 5:45Sean Hayes?

  No, I, I'll put my name on it. I, I'll put your names on it. I, I sent something, but I'll put your names on it.

• 5:49Jason Bateman?

  Thanks.

• 5:50Will Arnett?

  So you saw the childbirth and, and what was your?

• 5:52Sean Hayes?

  No, so I was talking to people about, and I was like, wow, I mean, I had no.

• 5:57Jason Bateman?

  It comes out of there?

• 5:59Sean Hayes?

  I had no idea that to watch it actually being.

• 6:04Jason Bateman?

  Uh huh.

• 6:05Sean Hayes?

  To come out and the doctor.

• 6:06Jason Bateman?

  And the head comes out all elongated?

• 6:08Sean Hayes?

  Yes, and the whole body comes out.

• 6:10Jason Bateman?

  First time I saw it, I thought something was wrong.

• 6:11Will Arnett?

  I was there, I was there for the birth of all three of my boys.

• 6:15Jason Bateman?

  Oh wow, what a dad.

• 6:16Will Arnett?

  And, and they were.

• 6:18Jason Bateman?

  All three?

• 6:19Will Arnett?

  All three were, um, were cesarean C-sections, which was.

• 6:24Jason Bateman?

  That's tough to watch.

• 6:25Will Arnett?

  It is, that's what, that was my point.

• 6:27Jason Bateman?

  You empty out the whole market there.

• 6:29Will Arnett?

  Dude, and I'm like, and I'm like, yeah, it's gonna be fun. I remember the first time being like, it's gonna be fun, and then looking and just going, oh.

• 6:35Jason Bateman?

  Stomach, intestine, spleen, liver, everything on the table.

• 6:39Sean Hayes?

  By the way, you know what a platinum gay is? A gay, a baby that comes out, who turns out to be gay, who never even went through the canal. Uh, had a, had a C-section, so not only.

• 6:49Jason Bateman?

  Once touched.

• 6:50Sean Hayes?

  Looked at it or been through it. Is, is a platinum gay.

• 6:54Jason Bateman?

  That's a real term?

• 6:55Will Arnett?

  Platinum gay.

• 6:56Sean Hayes?

  Means your mom had a, mom had a C-section.

• 6:59Will Arnett?

  Is that a whole section on Grindr? Is that like a different?

• 7:03Jason Bateman?

  All right, and with that, we'll get to our guest.

• 7:05Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 7:05Jason Bateman?

  Guys.

• 7:06Will Arnett?

  How is that possible?

• 7:08Jason Bateman?

  Guys, we rarely have members of the military on the show. Even more rare are members of the British military. Today, we have a commander of the Royal Navy, all right? But this is not just a soldier. His interests include rugby.

• 7:22Will Arnett?

  Is it Churchill?

• 7:23Jason Bateman?

  Clearing.

• 7:26Jason Bateman?

  I'm gonna have to start over now. You know, I don't like to be interrupted during my. I spent a long time writing these.

• 7:33Jason Bateman?

  Guys, we rarely have members of the military on the show. Even more rare are members of the British military. Today, we have a commander of the Royal Navy. But this is not just a soldier. His interests include rugby, clearing minefields, Shakespeare, Liverpool soccer, Will, solving mysteries, and shaking martinis. Guys.

• 7:53Sean Hayes?

  What?

• 7:54Jason Bateman?

  It's Daniel Craig.

• 7:55Sean Hayes?

  No way!

• 7:56Jason Bateman?

  Yep, yep, yep.

• 7:58Sean Hayes?

  Oh, my God, I wanted to meet you for so long.

• 8:01Jason Bateman?

  Right there.

• 8:01Sean Hayes?

  This is so cool.

• 8:02Speaker 06

  Well, here we are.

• 8:03Jason Bateman?

  Will, take it easy.

• 8:05Will Arnett?

  Well, I know, I didn't know that you were a Liverpool supporter. This is great news.

• 8:09Jason Bateman?

  You would have covered that before when you guys met?

• 8:12Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I would have.

• 8:14Jason Bateman?

  Wait, Daniel, I think I know what hotel room you're in.

• 8:17Speaker 06

  Have you been in this hotel room?

• 8:19Jason Bateman?

  You're at the Four Seasons, um, Los Angeles.

• 8:21Speaker 06

  How did you guess?

• 8:22Sean Hayes?

  Is that true?

• 8:22Jason Bateman?

  Because you're on a junket, right? Are you on a junket?

• 8:25Speaker 06

  Yeah. I've been coming to this hotel for like 35 years.

• 8:29Jason Bateman?

  Same room.

• 8:30Speaker 06

  When I walked into there, it was the same room.

• 8:31Sean Hayes?

  Daniel, do they make that jacket in men's or?

• 8:34Jason Bateman?

  Hey, Sean.

• 8:35Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 8:35Jason Bateman?

  This is when the first minute.

• 8:37Speaker 06

  All right, we're off. Good, excellent.

• 8:41Sean Hayes?

  I actually love it, I actually love it.

• 8:43Jason Bateman?

  Wait, Sean.

• 8:44Sean Hayes?

  No, no, I actually really like the jacket.

• 8:46Jason Bateman?

  Sean, do you know Daniel as well?

• 8:47Sean Hayes?

  I don't, I've never met you, obviously.

• 8:50Speaker 06

  It doesn't seem like it.

• 8:51Jason Bateman?

  No.

• 8:53Sean Hayes?

  I'm a massive, massive fan, massive fan.

• 8:56Speaker 06

  I can't, yeah.

• 8:57Jason Bateman?

  Okay, and Will, you have met, uh, Mr. Craig.

• 9:00Will Arnett?

  We have met, we hung out, we had, uh, we watched the Super Bowl together, right, Daniel?

• 9:05Speaker 06

  Yes, we did, that's right.

• 9:07Will Arnett?

  And then we went out.

• 9:07Speaker 06

  Did we then end up in the chateau?

• 9:09Will Arnett?

  Yes.

• 9:10Jason Bateman?

  Oh.

• 9:11Speaker 06

  Is that where, was that after, I can't. Remember that's two separate incidents, but there's probably the same.

• 9:15Will Arnett?

  No, no, it was the same night.

• 9:15Speaker 06

  There's a lot of alcohol in it.

• 9:17Will Arnett?

  Yeah, we ended up in the chateau with Krasinski and Sean Penn.

• 9:21Speaker 06

  That's.

• 9:21Jason Bateman?

  Hey, boy, I'm drunk already.

• 9:24Speaker 06

  So fucking Hollywood, it's just.

• 9:25Will Arnett?

  It was very Hollywood. It sounds like a bit, but it's actually. That was a long, that was a long time ago.

• 9:31Jason Bateman?

  It's a great group to drink with. Where was I, damn it?

• 9:34Sean Hayes?

  In a facility.

• 9:35Jason Bateman?

  I was probably in a facility somewhere, figuring stuff out.

• 9:40Will Arnett?

  It was, yeah, I think it was Family Weekend at Betty Ford.

• 9:46Jason Bateman?

  Um, now, um, Sean, we're gonna get, Sean, we're gonna get to the time when Daniel was a stormtrooper in Star Wars. We're gonna get to that.

• 9:57Sean Hayes?

  I know exactly which one he was. How about that?

• 9:59Jason Bateman?

  Come on, truly?

• 10:00Sean Hayes?

  Of course I do.

• 10:01Jason Bateman?

  So this is not something that I just discovered on Wikipedia?

• 10:04Sean Hayes?

  No, it's the one where he says, where she does, plays the mind trick and you will walk away and drop your weapon. I will walk away and drop my weapon. You dropped your weapon. You walked out of the scene.

• 10:12Speaker 06

  That's true.

• 10:12Jason Bateman?

  Wait, so you spoke?

• 10:14Speaker 06

  I, I, well, I didn't want to, but I, I was, I just said, uh, you know, dub me, Christ's sake, don't, I don't need, but then I.

• 10:21Jason Bateman?

  But that's a bump, you know, you speak as a stormtrooper, that's a, that's a bump into.

• 10:26Speaker 06

  Do you think I got one?

• 10:27Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 10:28Speaker 06

  They didn't even give me, they didn't even give me the uniform. The only thing I wanted was the uniform. It's like, give me the, give me the helmet at least.

• 10:35Jason Bateman?

  How did that come about? What are you, were you visiting on the set and they said, here's an extra?

• 10:39Speaker 06

  I was, we were about to start, I don't know which bond it was.

• 10:43Jason Bateman?

  You lose track.

• 10:44Sean Hayes?

  It was the last one, it was the last one.

• 10:46Speaker 06

  No, no, it wasn't. No, it was way before. It was, it must have been Spectre, I, I, because I was, and we were prepping and I knew the guys who, I knew all the crew, the, the A Ds who worked on, on, on, and I'd sort of like.

• 10:58Jason Bateman?

  You drifted over to the stage?

• 10:59Speaker 06

  I drifted over.

• 11:01Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 11:01Speaker 06

  And I kind of went, oh, come on, put me in uniform.

• 11:03Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I love that. I love.

• 11:05Jason Bateman?

  Come on, truly, is that, is that the way that it went?

• 11:07Speaker 06

  It went exactly, and they, I was half joking, thinking they were just gonna tell me where to get off, but.

• 11:12Sean Hayes?

  How long of a day was that?

• 11:13Speaker 06

  Too fucking long. You know, that kind of regrets of like, sort of think, oh, no, I'll be an extra. Oh, yes, great. Oh, how many hours we be? I'm gonna sit in the back of shot for this is like, they were very good. They were great. I do remember when, cause you know, those, um, the suits are, I mean, they're basically hard plastic and kind of, you know, they're not comfortable. I mean, God, how, God knows how they wore them out in the desert when they do those. Um, but I remember that it sort of was a little bit big for me and it sort of rested on my thumb and my thumb was numb for three days afterwards. Cause like, and I was like, the price I pay and I didn't get a bump.

• 11:49Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 11:50Will Arnett?

  No bump, no helmet, no.

• 11:52Speaker 06

  No, nothing.

• 11:52Sean Hayes?

  You got a bump at the chateau.

• 11:57Will Arnett?

  Sean, Sean wants to know, did you meet the mayor of Tatooine?

• 12:03Will Arnett?

  Fucking grow up, Sean.

• 12:10Jason Bateman?

  He's gonna double back to this, I know it.

• 12:15Jason Bateman?

  All right, now.

• 12:16Sean Hayes?

  Oh, my God.

• 12:18Speaker 06

  Do you have all the questions?

• 12:19Jason Bateman?

  I've got so many, yeah.

• 12:22Speaker 06

  And these two just fuck with you and stop you answering the questions?

• 12:26Jason Bateman?

  That's the way it goes on this.

• 12:28Speaker 06

  What happens, what happens when like the, in the reveal and the other two go, oh, fuck?

• 12:34Speaker 06

  That must happen, surely.

• 12:37Sean Hayes?

  It's happened, not out loud.

• 12:41Jason Bateman?

  All right, now let's just, can we, I'm gonna qualify this by saying, I'll bet, I'm gonna ask you some questions that you've answered a thousand times and I want you to be patient with us because we're dumb people that aren't fully researched, we're not journalists.

• 12:56Will Arnett?

  We're terrible interviewers.

• 12:58Jason Bateman?

  Come at you with just dumb questions, okay?

• 13:01Speaker 06

  Why do I, why do I feel like I'm being hustled here?

• 13:05Sean Hayes?

  Welcome to Smartless.

• 13:08Jason Bateman?

  Now, what about, can we start at the beginning?

• 13:12Speaker 06

  Sure.

• 13:13Jason Bateman?

  All right, all right. So you're in Liverpool, all right?

• 13:16Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 13:18Will Arnett?

  By the way, you gotta see Daniel.

• 13:19Speaker 06

  Picture the scene.

• 13:22Will Arnett?

  Okay, so it's grey.

• 13:25Speaker 06

  It's pissing with rain.

• 13:26Jason Bateman?

  Now, was there an influence there, mom or dad?

• 13:31Speaker 06

  Mom.

• 13:32Jason Bateman?

  Mom was a...

• 13:34Speaker 06

  An art teacher.

• 13:35Jason Bateman?

  Art teacher, thank you.

• 13:36Sean Hayes?

  Oh wow, that's cool.

• 13:36Jason Bateman?

  And so she sort of exposed you to the arts a little bit. She took you to movies or to plays or whatnot. How did the spark start?

• 13:44Speaker 06

  Plays were the thing. There was a theatre in Liverpool at the time, and it still is, called the Everman Theatre, which was a really, was kind of a hotbed of talent, as they say, and at the time in the 70s. But her friends were, I'd been at Liverpool Art College, and a lot of them had gone into the theatre, stage design and those things. And those were her kind of friends. She was a single mum.

• 14:08Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 14:08Speaker 06

  And we used to kind of end up going there most nights to the theatre just to sort of hang out. There was a kind of, you know, they had a bistro there.

• 14:15Jason Bateman?

  That's so cool.

• 14:16Speaker 06

  Cheap food. And it was a subsidised theatre and they did this thing where it's like, you know, there's a pound a ticket that, you know, it's like, the whole thing was supposed to be so everybody could afford to go. And they made, they did some off-the-charts plays, but it meant that I spent sort of, you know, evenings backstage at the theatre.

• 14:34Jason Bateman?

  Right, and you early...

• 14:36Speaker 06

  That'll do it to you.

• 14:37Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 14:37Sean Hayes?

  Well, that's where all the fun happens.

• 14:39Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, and this is something that mom really likes. It seems pretty cool, and on and on and on, right?

• 14:45Speaker 06

  And, you know, actors kind of like, you know, come, you know, meet actors afterwards, seeing them. And I thought they were, I thought they were gods, and then I just realised they were drunk.

• 14:53Will Arnett?

  Yeah, they were drunk.

• 14:55Jason Bateman?

  It's a necessary component.

• 14:57Will Arnett?

  But they were drunk, but at the same time, at that age, at that age, if you're quite young and you're an adolescent, you're a teenager, whatever it is, when you're exposed to that kind of thing and that kind of world, it does give you that perspective that other kids your age don't have. And you, right, because you're spending a lot of time with adults who are talented, who are creative.

• 15:17Speaker 06

  Right.

• 15:18Will Arnett?

  And when you get that fire kind of sparked at that age, I think it's pretty cool.

• 15:22Speaker 06

  Yeah, I mean, I definitely, and it really did, it went in, that's what I wanted to do. From, I mean, that's all I wanted to do. But it also gave me this, something you're watching the way a theatre works, the way that professionals work and all that. It also kind of went, oh, this is a job as well. You could see, it's kind of a couple of things, you know, lots of things happened.

• 15:39Jason Bateman?

  When was the first time you thought, oh, this is something that I might not embarrass myself doing? When was the first time you thought, I might?

• 15:46Speaker 06

  It hasn't happened. What are you talking about?

• 15:49Will Arnett?

  Second Bond film, second Bond.

• 15:53Speaker 06

  The drinking component helps with that. I still feel like I'm embarrassing myself.

• 15:57Jason Bateman?

  But I mean, but like, was it, was it a school play where you're like, oh, I don't suck at this, or I'm getting a couple of pats on the back?

• 16:04Speaker 06

  I got roped into a school play. I mean, I kind of did one of those things where I think I kind of had a couple of days off or whatever, I got the mumps or something, I don't know. And I came back and I'd been cast in the school play. What was, remember what it was? It was Oliver, yeah, and I was like, oh wow. It was Mr., I wasn't Oliver, sadly. I was Mr. Sowersbury, which is the part that's not in the movie that kind of was in the musical and got, you know, for good reason, got written out of the movie, you know.

• 16:33Jason Bateman?

  Was it a spicy character though?

• 16:34Speaker 06

  He's an undertaker.

• 16:35Will Arnett?

  You gotta pick a pocket or two, right?

• 16:37Speaker 06

  I didn't get to do that, no, sadly, yeah. I know, you gotta pick a pocket or two, that's right. I mean, it's a credo you live by.

• 16:44Jason Bateman?

  Right, so you do that, you get a couple of atta boys, a couple of pats on the back, and you're like, alright, well, I'm gonna lean into this a little bit. And you started maybe a little bit more sort of like...

• 16:53Speaker 06

  I don't know about you guys, I mean, you must have all done a school play at some point. It's just that kind of mass hysteria thing that kind of happens, which is, I mean, I, you know, my kids do school plays. I love that kind of, just like, the level of like, oh my god! Which is like, it stays with you, it kind of, you get it.

• 17:10Will Arnett?

  I got asked to be in the school play, and I think it was, I'm quite sure, never can, totally confirm, quite sure it was because I was such a loudmouth.

• 17:17Speaker 06

  No.

• 17:17Will Arnett?

  Pain in the ass.

• 17:18Jason Bateman?

  What?

• 17:18Speaker 06

  No.

• 17:19Will Arnett?

  Yeah, if you can believe it. And, and they, and they were like, fuck, how do we, is there somewhere we can find, like, either a room?

• 17:27Jason Bateman?

  Make him a tree.

• 17:28Will Arnett?

  Soundproof, or somewhere we can take that fucking energy that's driving everybody? Crazy.

• 17:33Sean Hayes?

  By the way, by the way, Will.

• 17:34Will Arnett?

  HMS Pinafore and I was like, okay.

• 17:37Speaker 06

  Yeah, that's it. I mean.

• 17:38Sean Hayes?

  Will, the same thing, the same thing. People were like, God, you're fucking loud and annoying and.

• 17:42Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 17:42Sean Hayes?

  And yeah, and I, I did Shakespeare twelfth, Shakespeare's twelfth night.

• 17:47Speaker 06

  Wow.

• 17:47Sean Hayes?

  And I was Sir Andrew Aguchik. I had no idea what I was saying. And one, until I got in front of the audience, then it kind of clicked and every word I, every line that was a comedy line got a laugh. And I was like, what is that? What is that?

• 18:00Speaker 06

  What is that about?

• 18:01Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's crazy.

• 18:03Will Arnett?

  And when you started feeling.

• 18:06Will Arnett?

  The ultimate drug you wanted to.

• 18:08Sean Hayes?

  I like, yes. I'm like, fuck you. This loudmouth's gonna keep going.

• 18:12Jason Bateman?

  Now, Daniel, you are very, very funny. Like, you know, the, the, the, the knives out. No, the knives out stuff is like.

• 18:19Speaker 06

  I know when someone says you're very, very, very funny, I can't say, am I?

• 18:23Jason Bateman?

  No, but it's, well, but maybe it's because people weren't expecting because you've done so much incredible dramatic work.

• 18:29Speaker 06

  So moody for the, for fifteen years.

• 18:31Jason Bateman?

  Well, yeah, I mean, you know, we do, we do what we get, you know, but like now, are you starting to pursue, raise your hand, get more scripts that are more comedic? And is that something that is exciting to you? Please say yes.

• 18:45Speaker 06

  I never, yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. Why don't you give me the questions and I'll just.

• 18:51Will Arnett?

  No, he likes to.

• 18:52Speaker 06

  What, what answers?

• 18:53Sean Hayes?

  I do build the answer into the question.

• 18:55Will Arnett?

  Always built in. And so then, then he likes to, he likes to bring the, the, the guest into the inevitable, really interesting yes or no.

• 19:06Speaker 06

  Is that how we go out on this? I can't wait.

• 19:10Speaker 06

  Fifty questions, yes or no? It's easy. Um, what was the?

• 19:13Will Arnett?

  Do you want to do more comedy?

• 19:15Speaker 06

  Yes. I don't, listen, I, you, you, you know, I, it would be like I had a plan.

• 19:21Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 19:22Speaker 06

  Right. I mean, I'm making this up as I go along, so.

• 19:25Sean Hayes?

  I don't know about that.

• 19:26Speaker 06

  I mean, seriously, I, I, you know, it's like they're coming, if they come along, sure, but I'm kind of going out and looking for something funny. It's also, you know, I know how kind of that's a dangerous thing to do. I mean, you know, it's like, you know, it's like.

• 19:38Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 19:39Speaker 06

  The first night out, I I read the script and I laughed out loud and I went fuck.

• 19:42Jason Bateman?

  Yes, I I love that movie.

• 19:44Speaker 06

  So so that was like an easy, easy pick. And then, you know, Ryan's, you know, one of the most talented writers there are.

• 19:50Jason Bateman?

  I love that.

• 19:51Speaker 06

  You know, he just kind of keeps going and it keeps getting at it and keeps getting into it. And this next one is going to be different. And, you know, we've kind of gone, I mean, it's not wildly different, but it's going to be definitely kind of get a different tone to it.

• 20:02Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wait, there's a third, there's one you're doing now.

• 20:04Speaker 06

  There's a third one we shot in the summer. It's called Wake Up Dead.

• 20:05Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow. Wow.

• 20:07Speaker 06

  Plugging the movie. Yeah.

• 20:08Will Arnett?

  Yeah, no, no, please.

• 20:09Jason Bateman?

  Come on, dude.

• 20:10Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 20:10Jason Bateman?

  Um, right. But I mean, you know, you say that there's no, that that like that you have some sort of a plan or something. But I would guess that somebody who is approached for something as iconic as Bond, um, and the kind of intelligence that you have, you probably had some thoughts, um, and some talks with some people about, okay, if I did this, I've got, I've got to do this. But if I did this, what what I would need to kind of have a plan to how to occupy myself in between those movies and what to do afterwards. And so, uh,

• 20:41Speaker 06

  Which I just fucked up.

• 20:42Jason Bateman?

  I don't think so.

• 20:44Will Arnett?

  I don't think so.

• 20:45Jason Bateman?

  I think it's kind of perfect. And we're going to get to queer soon, which is a perfect balance.

• 20:50Sean Hayes?

  By the way, you didn't need to plan for anything.

• 20:52Will Arnett?

  Well, I guess we're going to get to them right now. Go ahead.

• 20:58Jason Bateman?

  There's our clip.

• 21:01Jason Bateman?

  Go ahead, Sean.

• 21:02Sean Hayes?

  No, I was gonna say, you didn't need to plan because those movies were fucking exhausting, I'm sure. Like,

• 21:07Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 21:08Sean Hayes?

  Didn't you need to recover and like?

• 21:10Speaker 06

  I I think there was a a feeling when I first started that because I'd had exactly what you said, those conversations, and I talked about it to everybody I knew and all my family and all of those things about what does it mean? Of course, I've got to do it. I've got to do this. But what does it mean? I mean, you know, it's, um, how it's going to affect my life and all those things. And and and there was a sort of, I suppose, an instinct in me to sort of want to go, okay, I'm doing Bond now. I've got to do other stuff as well to kind of counterbalance this.

• 21:35Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 21:36Speaker 06

  It's just like, fucking ridiculous.

• 21:37Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 21:38Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 21:39Speaker 06

  It's like, I'm just fucking exhausted. I was like, so as much as the moves I did in between, I'm kind of like proud of and all of those things. I I stopped. I just went, just do this. If I'm doing this, just do this.

• 21:52Jason Bateman?

  Do this.

• 21:52Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 21:52Speaker 06

  And I don't, I don't have the headspace. I don't have the, I mean,

• 21:55Will Arnett?

  I'm going to say something that's going to be, uh, it's not controversial, but I know because the Bond fans and the Bond world is is so, those fans are so vocal and and and, you know, dedicated, et cetera. But I will say, That for me, and I loved all the prior Bonds, everybody was great. So this is by no means an admonishment of what they had done. But you were the first Bond who was like a real like

• 22:22Speaker 06

  Hot, hot piece of

• 22:23Will Arnett?

  Man's man. Yeah, a hot piece of ass and was tough.

• 22:28Speaker 06

  This culture, but where's it getting culture?

• 22:31Will Arnett?

  Yeah, exactly. But you came, you were tough. And, and because I think that people will go like, how dare you, blah, blah. But you came out and you were like this tough, like you were like a real modern Bond in a way that I thought was really, really refreshing. I loved your Bond films, dude. I really did.

• 22:46Speaker 06

  Thank you.

• 22:46Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah. And we will be right back.

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• 24:27Will Arnett?

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• 24:46Jason Bateman?

  And now, back to the show.

• 24:49Sean Hayes?

  My question is, when you were doing the very first one, which I've seen a billion times. I've seen all of them a billion times. I literally could do like dialogue from it. I know.

• 25:00Sean Hayes?

  Give it to me. Stop, um, stop. What is he? What did you say? Take your, take your hand away from your ear. Anyway, that was the first one. Anyway, so thank you, thank you.

• 25:12Sean Hayes?

  But wait, at what point?

• 25:13Jason Bateman?

  That would have been the line I remembered too.

• 25:15Sean Hayes?

  Go ahead. I literally just said it yesterday.

• 25:20Jason Bateman?

  Get to the choppas, right? It's up there with that.

• 25:26Sean Hayes?

  But wait, Daniel, at what point when you were making?

• 25:28Will Arnett?

  Sorry, I think my phone's ringing.

• 25:35Sean Hayes?

  No, that kicked off the whole chase. Get your hand here. But anyway, so when you were doing that movie, at what point in the middle of the movie where you're like, oh God, I bit off more than I could chew. This is really hard. Like, I don't know if I'm gonna make it. Or were you like, oh, this is awesome. I can do this. All the stunts, all the bullshit that you had, that you put your body through.

• 25:54Speaker 06

  I mean, I was, I was younger and I, and, and I'm way too gung ho. I was just, you know, I mean, I kind of threw myself. There was like, you know, the guys were kind of saying, you know, do you want to do? Yeah, I'll do. Yeah. I was like, fuck it. And then we were like, yeah, I know. And, um, but I had all this stuff going on. I mean, we were, we were, started shooting in Prague, in studios there, and then we moved to the Bahamas. And then my agent, which is, you know, it was very nice. But then my agent sort of phoned me up and said, you might want to look at the internet. And the internet just sort of blown up and done this like. Fuck him, kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, I remember that.

• 26:36Speaker 06

  Which was kind of like, and I kind of looked at it all and as like, you know, when the naive days when I used to do stuff like that, like, oh, no, I'm gonna look at all and go down that rabbit hole and just chased it all night long and was like, oh, my God, that's really intense. And I kind of, I then sort of just had this sort of like weird sort of, I don't know, I just sort of went, well, let's fuck all I can do about that. There's nothing I can do. And we're here, and I know the script's good. And let's have a good time. And if it's a swing and a miss, great. If it's my last one, I'll walk away knowing that I did the best I could. I mean, it kind of, I mean, it sounds easy to say now. No, for sure. But it was like, it was like, let's get on with this. Let's do it. I just, you know.

• 27:20Will Arnett?

  And do you think, do you think that, that sort of that trial by fire of, of being, because Bond, again, is so iconic, and, and by being put in the brightest of spotlights and, and being scrutinized so much, um, sort of on social media or whatever it is online, do you think that that was a, uh, did you, were you able to carry those lessons on sort of post Bond and in your normal, so as you, because we, we talk about it sometimes about what's the reaction to what people say in social media and everybody's got a voice and stuff. And everybody kind of puts it in a different place or deals with it differently? How, how, does it affect your life? Do you think about it?

• 27:59Speaker 06

  I mean, I, I mean, I think the fame thing. I mean, I just had a complete nervous breakdown after it came out and sort of didn't leave the house for six months. But it was that.

• 28:06Will Arnett?

  Really, really?

• 28:07Speaker 06

  I mean, I mean, I exaggerate, but I kind of, it was a bit like that. I just got like, oh, my, I mean, it was like.

• 28:12Jason Bateman?

  It's a level of fame and recognizability that is not something that one deals with quickly and easily.

• 28:18Speaker 06

  Well, and who do you talk to about it? I mean, I suppose you go, I'm gonna phone up someone really, really famous. I mean, it's like, I mean, I, I, you know, I, I don't know what you say.

• 28:27Will Arnett?

  Yeah. Or if you talked with a butcher or your friend or somebody who's not working and they're like, oh, boo hoo, you're James Bond, right?

• 28:33Speaker 06

  Exactly, exactly.

• 28:34Jason Bateman?

  Right. So where does, where does that healthy level of indifference come from about whether it works or not? And I'm gonna still just be me. And if it doesn't, or this fame stuff like, was, was your, did, did, did mom give you a good head on your shoulders? Or was it sort of, were you kind of self taught?

• 28:49Speaker 06

  I think there's a, there's a, I've just got a very, you know, down to earth family who. Do not shy away from telling me what, um, you know, a low life I am.

• 29:00Speaker 06

  You know, I mean, it's like, um, and that that really helps and just, uh, yeah, coming, I don't know. I'm from the north of England, so more kind of like sort of practical, sort of like, uh, uh, pragmatic way of looking at life, maybe. I also got into that thing of, you know, very early on. I mean, there's so much, I did, I mean, I went to drama school and there's that terrible thing of drama school is that like ninety percent of the year don't get to work. It's like, it's like, that's the attrition rate and you go into the business. There wasn't social media, so there wasn't another outlet to try and become famous. It was just like, you know, you got a job or you didn't get a job and mostly, mostly people didn't get a job and.

• 29:35Speaker 06

  I know that somebody gave me a great bit of advice very early on, uh, while at drama school, a great director who just said, don't ever, ever, ever get bitter. Don't get, you know, because bitterness is just the thing that it'll just eat you up because there's always somebody gonna get the job. Over you, there's always somebody gonna, you know, and if you kind of look at, uh, look, only look at, like, you know, other people in the business with jealousy, then. Then you'll kind of, that, that's, that'll define you and it doesn't matter if you then get success, you'll still kind of. I get jealous all the time, jealous of every fucking actor out there who gets a job that I'd like, but I kind of, I'm, I admit to it.

• 30:13Will Arnett?

  But that's good. We had, I, we had the same, we used to talk about it all the time. I remember this was years ago when, when people would start to work and as you say. Most of the time, most of us were not working and somebody would get a good job and whatever. And I always stayed friends with my, we sort of cultivated.

• 30:28Speaker 06

  People who were working?

• 30:32Speaker 06

  They'll always get dinner.

• 30:34Will Arnett?

  Well, it was, but it was also like, we, we, we genuinely rooted for each other and anybody, and sometimes there would be somebody would come in the group who was. You could tell was keeping score. And then you would just weed them out and you'd weed them out and you'd be like, I'm not here, I can't be friends with people who are keeping score, I just can't. There's enough for everybody. And, and if you're not in the mindset of rooting people on, then like you say, you're bitter and then fuck it, then you're fucked.

• 31:00Speaker 06

  You're fucked, you're fucked.

• 31:02Sean Hayes?

  I, that's why I thought, I just read something recently where you said, uh, and I made me laugh out loud when somebody asked you. Um, who do you think you should pass the torch on to for James Bond? And you said, I don't care.

• 31:15Speaker 06

  Not my business.

• 31:17Will Arnett?

  JB, that is sexy indifference.

• 31:19Speaker 06

  It's somebody else's fucking problem.

• 31:21Jason Bateman?

  Oh, that's so great.

• 31:23Sean Hayes?

  It made me laugh out loud.

• 31:25Jason Bateman?

  So, so then, so then coming up and starting to do some jobs and, and kind of starting to make a living a little bit from it, perhaps, were there, were there some other, I'm sure that there were some other jobs that you were doing to kind of pay the bills?

• 31:37Speaker 06

  I mean, I, I'd left home at sixteen.

• 31:40Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 31:40Speaker 06

  I went and joined a thing called the National Youth Theatre in London. So I left Liverpool. Liverpool was like early eighties as depressed as, I mean, so much, it's come up now and it's doing, the city's doing great, which is just wonderful. But at the time, it was seriously depressed. We had a sort of Trotskyite local council that was hated by Thatcher, who, who she starved money. I mean, it was like the whole thing was just like, employment was like, I kind of like thirty-five percent or thirty-six, but it was, it was through the roof, whatever it was. And there was not a lot of job prospects. And I was, I was playing with the idea of joining the Navy. I was playing with the idea, you know, doing all those things going, well, what do I do? What the fuck do I do?

• 32:21Sean Hayes?

  Plan B.

• 32:22Speaker 06

  And there was a thing called the National Youth Theatre, and it did a summer course, and my mother was a teacher, and it was on the board at her school, and she went this. And I went and auditioned for it in Manchester. I got in and she'd sort of kicked me out the door and she went, you've got to go, you've got to go, go, go, go.

• 32:35Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 32:36Speaker 06

  And it was partly her ambition, because actually she'd got into RADA.

• 32:41Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow.

• 32:42Speaker 06

  Which is, you know, the, the kind of top, the top sort of drama school, certainly of those years, when she was seventeen, eighteen, and

• 32:50Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 32:51Speaker 06

  there was no money to go. There was, you know, there was like, because it was, you know, she didn't, the family just didn't have the money. So she didn't tell me that till about ten years ago, actually.

• 33:00Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow.

• 33:00Sean Hayes?

  Wow.

• 33:01Speaker 06

  So she, but that, her ambition for me was just to get going, get going.

• 33:04Jason Bateman?

  She must have been absolutely thrilled with your, your success and

• 33:09Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 33:10Jason Bateman?

  the arc of your success too, yeah?

• 33:12Speaker 06

  Yeah. I mean, I think so, yes.

• 33:14Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that's, that's awesome, awesome, awesome.

• 33:16Will Arnett?

  And you, and also, and when you say the arc too, because you, you earned it as well. Like, you know, you really

• 33:22Sean Hayes?

  Oh, there she is. Is that your mom?

• 33:23Speaker 06

  Look at that.

• 33:24Will Arnett?

  Hey. We already, we already tipped her, by the way, don't.

• 33:27Jason Bateman?

  We got this. We got that.

• 33:30Jason Bateman?

  Listener, he just had some food delivered.

• 33:31Speaker 06

  I gotta have a bite of this.

• 33:32Jason Bateman?

  Go ahead.

• 33:33Speaker 06

  Don't not.

• 33:34Jason Bateman?

  Enjoy. So this is a perfect time for me with a long-winded question here, so you can chew. Now, let's see, were there, there weren't any, well, you tell me, were there huge influences or a particular one coming out of England, you were like, if I were to get some traction on this career, that is kind of the path I'd like to be on. Was it somebody in England or was it, was it somebody in America? Was it, was it, was it always acting? Was it directing?

• 34:03Speaker 06

  The, the theatre thing was the kicker, was, that was definitely the kind of thing that got me, just, that's what I want to do. And I had some weird thing that I can do that, which is, but, you know, it's just because I was a show-off.

• 34:14Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 34:16Speaker 06

  And I still do.

• 34:18Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 34:19Speaker 06

  You know, I mean, I mean, so, but.

• 34:21Jason Bateman?

  John Gielgud, something like that, no?

• 34:25Speaker 06

  Yes, I mean, I, no.

• 34:27Jason Bateman?

  Albert Finney.

• 34:29Speaker 06

  I mean, definitely that generation, Albert Finney's generation and those guys, I mean, it just, that whole, you know, the, I suppose the, called the Angry Young Men, didn't they?

• 34:37Jason Bateman?

  Then you worked with Cambon, right?

• 34:39Speaker 06

  I did, yeah, yeah.

• 34:40Jason Bateman?

  Lucky man.

• 34:41Speaker 06

  I'm really, I mean, just a dream, of a human being and, and one of the greatest actors, actors ever.

• 34:48Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 34:49Speaker 06

  It was film, really, and that was, we had a little cinema in the town I grew up in, which was, you know, a flea pit, proper, kind of just like a one-screen, and all the movies at the time would do the kind of rounds of the country, where they'd go to the big screens and things like that. And then by the time we got them, the movie had been out for like a month and a half, and, and the Prince would, I remember the Prince was just terrible, and I was kind of like, but, but they just, they put films on in rotation. I mean, from Stripes to Quest for Fire, to, you know, I mean Blade Runner, I remember seeing, in the cinema on my own, with a kind of an orange juice, and this film came out, I had no, I had no idea, it was like blind, I was in there seeing a double bill,

• 35:33Speaker 06

  it was one, it was a Sean Connery space movie called Outland or something.

• 35:37Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 35:38Speaker 06

  Does that make sense?

• 35:39Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 35:39Speaker 06

  That was on, which was pretty great, because it's a cowboy movie in space.

• 35:43Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 35:43Speaker 06

  And then I kind of went and got a, you know, a, a drink and came back and sat down on my own, and Blade Runner started, and it was just like, I was like, and that.

• 35:53Jason Bateman?

  Was Harrison Ford a bit of a North Star for you?

• 35:55Speaker 06

  Well, it was the movie itself, it was the whole thing.

• 35:59Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 35:59Speaker 06

  I mean, I mean, sure, he is, of course.

• 36:01Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 36:01Speaker 06

  But the movie itself and the kind of, the fact that movies could look like that, feel like that, and do that to you.

• 36:08Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 36:08Speaker 06

  Was just like the thing, I, I, I did, I'd never kind of experienced it. And it felt like a movie that I discovered, that I was, and it was nothing to do with The Gone With The Wind, or the kind of, like, the, the, the, it's a wonderful life stuff, or the Bond movies even.

• 36:22Jason Bateman?

  It was fantasy, yeah.

• 36:23Speaker 06

  That was part of, um.

• 36:24Jason Bateman?

  But ultimately, kind of intangible, though, right? I would imagine there you are, sitting in this theater in this small town, and you're like, well, I, I'm, I'm never gonna make it to Hollywood, I'm never gonna be up on a movie screen.

• 36:32Will Arnett?

  That's a million miles away.

• 36:34Speaker 06

  I was arrogant, little bitch.

• 36:35Jason Bateman?

  Right, you, you actually thought, yeah, there is a shot, there is a shot, if I play my cards right, if I get this.

• 36:42Speaker 06

  I don't know, I mean, it's hindsight, isn't it, that sort of says it, but there was something about.

• 36:46Jason Bateman?

  You thought it was possible, which is the key, right?

• 36:49Speaker 06

  I think so.

• 36:50Jason Bateman?

  He's like, why can't?

• 36:50Sean Hayes?

  Well, but you also got accolades when you were doing theater, enough to know that you had something to offer.

• 36:56Speaker 06

  It was, it was the thing that happened, I kind of left drama school and went and did, I went and did a John G. Avulston movie called The Power Of One with Stephen Dorff.

• 37:04Jason Bateman?

  Loves Stephen.

• 37:05Speaker 06

  Scored by Hans Zimmer, well, I mean, amazingly.

• 37:07Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 37:08Speaker 06

  And.

• 37:08Jason Bateman?

  He's amazing.

• 37:09Speaker 06

  Really kind of weird, I mean, not a weird movie, just a kind of movie of, of its era.

• 37:14Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 37:16Speaker 06

  Playing the bad guy, and kind of, it was just this sort of event that happened, but it was a movie. And I then came out, I didn't work for a lot, did some theater, and then started getting TV roles.

• 37:29Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 37:30Speaker 06

  Little guest roles and things like that, and, um, suddenly then I got kind of a lead in a, in a TV role, and suddenly the money started, it wasn't great, but it was like, whoa, this is like, this is like, kind of life-changing money in the sense I might be able to afford a house soon, this is all kind of.

• 37:45Jason Bateman?

  Still living in England?

• 37:46Speaker 06

  Still, still living in England, I'd gone to LA after The Power Of One, and, and it was like 1991 and arriving here.

• 37:54Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 37:55Speaker 06

  It was like, it was like a, I mean, well, it, well, it kind of and kind of not, because I was so, like. Green and naive, I landed in this town, I didn't have a driver's license, um, and have a credit card. They checked me into the Universal Sheraton, which is, I realize now is an island. You need a car to get off it. I mean, it was, and I kind of went to the front desk and they said, credit card, and they went.

• 38:21Speaker 06

  They were like, looking at me like, so I had to embarrassingly call up Warner Brothers and get them to put some money down on the desk and do all these things and.

• 38:28Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 38:28Speaker 06

  Um, and then John D. Alveson very nicely was sort of pushing me slightly because he's like, you kid, this kid's got it, this kid's got it. He was pushing me slightly. So I went up for auditions and in the movie I was playing, you know, a Nazi, um, kind of South African, um, you know, bad guy. And I was going up for Nazi, South African bad guys. I mean, that's, that was it. I went up like five auditions and it was all for, you know, it was just all for the Nazis. And I just was like, I was just like, yeah, I mean, I kind of, I've got a bit more range than this, I think.

• 38:58Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 38:58Speaker 06

  Um, and they, and I was, there was a kind of, suddenly there was an offer on the table from a manager and why don't you stay and we get you accommodation, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I kind of went on, I did these five auditions and I went, whoa, no, this is gonna go really wrong. And I don't know what it was, it was just like. This is, where this, where these thoughts came from, I have no idea. But they were just like, this is, this is gonna, this is not the career I want.

• 39:23Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 39:23Speaker 06

  So I went home.

• 39:24Will Arnett?

  Back to England, back to theater.

• 39:25Speaker 06

  Back to England. Well, sort of back to thinking, well, I've got, you know, I've got a bit of money in my pocket, you know, I've got a bit of money now, so it's okay. But then suddenly I started getting bigger roles in television and I realized that was a mistake. Because I looked at these television stars at home and God bless them, they're doing, they're earning money and they've got the house in Portugal and they've got, and they're thinking, yeah, they're set, set, it's great. I wanna make movies. I want to make movies.

• 39:47Will Arnett?

  Good for you.

• 39:48Speaker 06

  And the British movie industry didn't exist.

• 39:53Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 39:54Speaker 06

  It just did. I mean, there were amazing movies coming out. You think about, you know, like, um.

• 39:58Will Arnett?

  Room with a View.

• 40:00Speaker 06

  I mean, Room with a View, but I mean, I've talked to kind of like, yeah, I mean, no one was ever, ever gonna cast me in. Cause I didn't, I wasn't a floppy fringed kind of posh boy.

• 40:09Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's what I mean. Like the sort of the.

• 40:13Speaker 06

  So there was, there was lots of brilliant directors, like, you know, My Beautiful Laundrette and things like, things like that were going on. But that was a kind of, you know, you had to know the director and things and.

• 40:20Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 40:20Speaker 06

  I sort of plugged away in it until someone gave me a break.

• 40:23Will Arnett?

  But what was the shift, what was the shift in that, in the British?

• 40:26Speaker 06

  For me?

• 40:27Will Arnett?

  Film?

• 40:28Speaker 06

  You mean?

• 40:28Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 40:30Speaker 06

  I did a film called Love is a Devil.

• 40:31Jason Bateman?

  And that was, that got some traction for you?

• 40:33Speaker 06

  It, it's, as these things do, and like, like I say this to kind of young actors who talk about kind of, you know, you know, I want the, you know, when the break comes and, you know, I'm gonna do this thing, and you know, it's like, it, it's like believing producers say this is gonna be good for you, this is gonna be good for you, this, it's like, it doesn't happen like that in the industry, it's tectonic, it, it, it's like, it rolls around, you get the break, like, someone comes and sees you in something, or sees you in something, a year later, they might go, let's get that guy.

• 40:58Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 40:58Speaker 06

  And that's, and you can't, you can't rush these things, so, I did things and I just kept on going, and eventually, sort of, something, momentum started happening, and then, I don't know what kind of went, went down, I did a TV series, and then, and then wrote to audition, like, you know, Sam, Sam Cosby and wrote, wrote a audition, and then Munich.

• 41:18Jason Bateman?

  Now, did you know Sam Mendes before that?

• 41:20Speaker 06

  To say hello to.

• 41:21Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, but, so then it was, so then when you auditioned, I'd imagine that was an audition, not an offer, uh, it was a friendly face, uh, in the audition room.

• 41:28Speaker 06

  I blew it.

• 41:29Jason Bateman?

  You did?

• 41:30Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 41:30Jason Bateman?

  Not a good audition.

• 41:31Will Arnett?

  No, come on.

• 41:32Speaker 06

  I was a terrible audition.

• 41:33Jason Bateman?

  Did you apologize after your audition?

• 41:37Jason Bateman?

  As you're leaving, I'm so sorry you had to see that, good luck with the project.

• 41:43Sean Hayes?

  Oh my god.

• 41:43Jason Bateman?

  That's my go-to.

• 41:48Jason Bateman?

  But it works, sometimes it works.

• 41:50Speaker 06

  Sometimes it works, yeah. No, I just, I was, I, I, I was supposed to have sort of learnt this Chicago accent, and for some reason, I didn't, and for the audition, I kind of, I really, because, I, he'd sort of kind of, he, he hadn't offered it to me, but he'd sort of said to me, we really want you to play the part, and I thought, well, that's an offer. And he said, now you're gonna fly out to Chicago and audition, I was like, really?

• 42:10Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 42:11Speaker 06

  And I, so I didn't really do enough work on the part, and I kind of went, did this terrible reading, and he sort of went, stop, stop, you've got the job.

• 42:21Speaker 06

  I sort of, I kind of, you know, battered him down with terrible, terrible acting, it's, it's a ploy.

• 42:26Jason Bateman?

  Alright, so then you're on set, and you're working with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, and being directed by Mr. Mendes, uh, were, was that, um, was that, did, did you get winded? Um, or was it just sort of like, yeah, this is kind of, it's about time?

• 42:42Will Arnett?

  And this is what I've been trying to do, I've been trying to avoid the other stuff, and now I've landed in this, sort of, the lane I wanna be in, a little bit.

• 42:50Speaker 06

  I mean.

• 42:51Jason Bateman?

  Combo?

• 42:51Speaker 06

  I mean, I would, I. I kind of, yeah. I mean, I just felt, I felt like terrified and all of those things. But like, you're here now.

• 43:03Sean Hayes?

  Right.

• 43:03Speaker 06

  You better fucking.

• 43:05Sean Hayes?

  You better deliver.

• 43:05Speaker 06

  You better deliver.

• 43:06Sean Hayes?

  And did you find that you had a gear that you didn't know that, that, that could kind of boost you up and, and so you don't, didn't have a panic attack and you, you, you held your own? Yes?

• 43:17Speaker 06

  I mean, I suppose what it was, what, what, what really calmed me, when it boils down to it, you're on set with one of the greatest living actors of all time.

• 43:27Sean Hayes?

  And Paul Newman.

• 43:28Speaker 06

  And Paul Newman. Um, and both, both of them, but very, very, very different actors. But Paul Newman, um, who I've, you know, idolized. And watching him work, you realize, oh God, he's an actor.

• 43:42Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 43:42Speaker 06

  And it just, that's sort of like, that in itself was like, he's, I can't talk to him about, he wanted, he wanted to talk to me about racing cars. I was like going, four wheels? I mean, yeah, you know, I guess like, he's like talking about like, I mean, I just had, why, why the indie series was so much better than the Grand Prix series. I was like, yeah. I mean, it was like, um, I couldn't, but when it came down to it and watching and working him, with him, I had a language that I could speak to him in because I'm an actor, he's an actor. And he really is, you know, and he'd struggle and he'd really be kind of trying to find it and things that I'd just be like, oh wow, great. That's, that's what I, that's what I do.

• 44:18Sean Hayes?

  Oh, good.

• 44:18Speaker 06

  And that, that, that kind of just, I thought, so I can get, you know, I mean.

• 44:22Sean Hayes?

  He forgets a line too, sometimes.

• 44:24Speaker 06

  Right. Yeah.

• 44:26Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's great.

• 44:27Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 44:28Sean Hayes?

  That's really cool.

• 44:29Will Arnett?

  Yeah, that's really interesting, that idea of, of being with Paul Newman and watching him kind of find it in the scene.

• 44:36Sean Hayes?

  But it's the opposite of, of making you nervous. It actually, it calms you because you see him as human.

• 44:41Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you must have had a complete, like, your nerves must have been absolutely settled in that moment.

• 44:46Speaker 06

  I, I was like, we can, we can do this. We can make this happen. We're playing. You know, suddenly we're like, you know, we're here to play. Great. I know how to play.

• 44:53Will Arnett?

  Fascinating.

• 44:53Sean Hayes?

  One time I was, I was doing the bucket list with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. I was in a scene with Jack Nicholson. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

• 45:00Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 45:00Sean Hayes?

  And, and he turns to me and he goes, during rehearsal, he goes, do you, do you know what you mean when you say that line? I go, yeah, do you?

• 45:10Sean Hayes?

  Like, what?

• 45:12Speaker 06

  Nice dick.

• 45:13Sean Hayes?

  I had to say that.

• 45:16Sean Hayes?

  I had to say that to relax myself because I couldn't believe I was in a movie with Jack Nicholson.

• 45:23Sean Hayes?

  We'll be right back.

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• 46:51Sean Hayes?

  And now, back to the show.

• 46:54Jason Bateman?

  Now, Daniel, when you were very quickly, after that, sort of vaulted into much more of a leadership position on the jobs that followed, did you take that experience with you as a leader and see the younger actors or the actors with lesser parts get a little sort of nervous? And did you lend some of that comfort to them by, not intentionally forgetting a line, but did you take some of those leadership lessons?

• 47:21Speaker 06

  By being completely shit. It really just settles everybody's nerves. Oh, my God.

• 47:29Speaker 06

  That's how he's gonna do it.

• 47:33Speaker 06

  I don't know. I mean, I feel like my part of my job is to, you know, you're on set. You know, I love being around actors. I love being, you know, it's fun. It's a lot of fun. And if you have somebody who is, you know, there for a bit, short day. I have a thing, it's like, you know, it's like the, my favorite movies, it's those small parts that zip out that you, that make the movie sometimes. It's like, you encourage them to be the best they can, cause it's like, it's like, you know, it's like, smallest cogs, all of that shit, you know.

• 48:05Jason Bateman?

  Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No small parts, just small actors.

• 48:07Speaker 06

  Exactly.

• 48:08Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 48:09Sean Hayes?

  Um, what about, what about siblings? Do you have siblings?

• 48:12Speaker 06

  I have a half brother and a sister, an older sister.

• 48:14Sean Hayes?

  And a different, completely different career path than you?

• 48:17Speaker 06

  Completely different, yeah.

• 48:18Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 48:19Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm kind of the only actor in the family.

• 48:22Sean Hayes?

  And I want to talk about eggs that you just ate. Do you always watch what you eat when you're on, doing these junkets? Like, you didn't want to touch the potatoes, I was, I was just watching you garble those eggs.

• 48:31Will Arnett?

  Sean knows, can he send a guy over to pick up the potatoes?

• 48:37Will Arnett?

  There's somebody at your door right now, Daniel, if you don't mind, just real quick.

• 48:40Sean Hayes?

  Slide the potatoes under the door.

• 48:44Sean Hayes?

  No, do you, are you always like that, or do you go off the rails sometimes and, and just, I mean?

• 48:49Speaker 06

  I do, I mean, I don't, I mean, I, I don't, I used to have a, I used to swing.

• 48:53Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 48:54Speaker 06

  On Bond.

• 48:55Sean Hayes?

  I'll finish the sentence.

• 48:55Speaker 06

  Yeah, right, here we go. Um, that's that, that's not a good, a good word. On Bond, I would, you know, because of the intensity, I would sort of then spend the next sort of three, four months sort of being drunk and eating.

• 49:06Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 49:07Speaker 06

  And that, that, that's not good for you. So, yeah, I, I, you know, so I don't, I, I, I stopped doing that and, and sort of like said, okay, let's maintain my fitness. How about that?

• 49:17Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, cause you always look great.

• 49:19Speaker 06

  Thank you.

• 49:19Jason Bateman?

  Well, it does, it gets, it gets so hard after 50, yeah? I mean, we're all.

• 49:24Speaker 06

  It's just, it's, it's so depressing.

• 49:26Will Arnett?

  It's so depressing.

• 49:27Speaker 06

  I mean, I remember before, I funny my mom up a few years ago and going, oh, my fingers are aching and just, I was just, welcome to my world. It's just that, it's just that's what it is.

• 49:36Jason Bateman?

  I've got all these little hotspots on my hands now that like, it hurts between this finger and this finger and right at the base of the thumb there, it's like, like, what's going on?

• 49:44Speaker 06

  I had this, I had this treatment, treatment the other day where they gave me this infrared thing where they kind of map your body infrared and my hands were on fire and they were like, going, oh, what's wrong? And I'm like, I don't know what is wrong. It's like, it hurts.

• 49:56Jason Bateman?

  I'm not 20.

• 49:57Will Arnett?

  Wait a second, wait, Sean, you did a symbol, no. JB, you did a map.

• 50:01Jason Bateman?

  I did the full body scan, yeah.

• 50:02Will Arnett?

  Full body scan.

• 50:03Jason Bateman?

  And it was, uh, it was, uh, thank God, it was all, it was all good, but, um, it's kinda cool that they can do that now.

• 50:08Will Arnett?

  What did they find in the place where the human heart normally is?

• 50:11Jason Bateman?

  Not much. There was like, there's a little movie, a little movie camera rolling in there.

• 50:16Will Arnett?

  Just a bunch of loose nuts and bolts.

• 50:18Sean Hayes?

  Wait, Daniel, also, also, just meeting you for the first time, I, I sense that your brain works really, really fast. Like, you're hyper intelligent and you kinda have to when you're doing all the things that you do. What do you do to?

• 50:29Jason Bateman?

  I'm not getting that, Sean.

• 50:30Sean Hayes?

  Really? I do. I get, I get that you're like, what you, your brain's like, works really, really fast. Like, you're eating the eggs and you're finishing the story and then, and then you're going, like.

• 50:39Jason Bateman?

  He's not a dummy, okay?

• 50:40Sean Hayes?

  Well, I know, that's what I'm saying.

• 50:42Jason Bateman?

  Sean's so shocked. How is he chewing and walking at the same time?

• 50:46Will Arnett?

  By the way, this is coming from a guy who spends like a Monday afternoon, mid-afternoon, watching videos of childbirth. So, it's not like he, he doesn't have a lot going on.

• 50:57Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. It's gonna feel like a compliment's coming, but the curve.

• 51:01Will Arnett?

  The bar, the bar is, the bar couldn't be fucking lower.

• 51:05Sean Hayes?

  No. It is a big compliment because you have to think, you constantly have to think fast of what you do. You're like, the camera's there, my line's here, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and you have kids and you have the thing. So, your mind's always going, what do you do to calm down?

• 51:16Speaker 06

  Uh, um, I don't know. I mean, it's just being at home and, and, and I like to, I, I, I really, really, really don't play tennis. I'm so terrible, but if I can convince a, you know, like a tennis pro or someone to, to hit a ball with me, I'll do that for two, three hours at a time.

• 51:35Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 51:36Speaker 06

  I just kinda like, and you know.

• 51:37Jason Bateman?

  No golf for you?

• 51:40Speaker 06

  Yeah, whatever. What's the square? Ruins a good walk. What are you talking about?

• 51:44Jason Bateman?

  But it is a nice walk.

• 51:45Sean Hayes?

  I love that. I love that.

• 51:47Jason Bateman?

  Now, what about, now, you, you've been to all these incredible, and all the films you've done, all these incredible locations around the world. Is there a spot that, that calms you more than any? A favorite spot?

• 51:58Speaker 06

  Um, I think if I'm going to really relax, the sea is like the place I want to be. Because it's like, I

• 52:05Will Arnett?

  I'm with you.

• 52:06Speaker 06

  I just want the, I want the salt water and I want the sun and I just, and my body kind of, again with the aches and the pains.

• 52:13Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you're not a boat guy though, are you? Are you a guy that?

• 52:16Speaker 06

  Not really, they're kind of, they're, they're a lot of hard work.

• 52:19Jason Bateman?

  I know.

• 52:19Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 52:20Sean Hayes?

  I have like two fan stuff that can we, can we just get it out of the way?

• 52:24Will Arnett?

  Yeah, of course, man.

• 52:26Sean Hayes?

  Because Scotty, my husband and I watched, watched all your films like a billion times. The Javier Bardem and you probably have the greatest hero villain chemistry of all time. Like just incredible. What, do you?

• 52:40Will Arnett?

  Tell Tracy, tell Tracy what that's for.

• 52:42Sean Hayes?

  Tracy, that's from, oh my God, that's from

• 52:45Speaker 06

  Skyfall.

• 52:46Sean Hayes?

  Skyfall, thanks. It's Skyfall. And do you, Adele, you have to sing Adele when you say the name.

• 52:52Jason Bateman?

  No, you don't. Go ahead with the question.

• 52:59Sean Hayes?

  No, I just, it's just a comment, not a question, it's just a comment. Like that was incredible and do you guys still, do you still keep in touch with Javier?

• 53:05Speaker 06

  I do, I see, I talk to him occasionally and yes, I love him to death. He's just, he's just like, he's a glorious, glorious human being.

• 53:11Will Arnett?

  So good.

• 53:12Sean Hayes?

  And then the other thing was, and you can think about it while we talk about other stuff, unless you have to go, is a great theater story. I always ask like people with theater stories.

• 53:19Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 53:19Sean Hayes?

  Like scenes falling, like people throwing up on stage, like anything like that.

• 53:24Speaker 06

  I've done all that, I've done all that.

• 53:25Sean Hayes?

  Really?

• 53:26Speaker 06

  Yeah, I've done, you name it.

• 53:27Sean Hayes?

  The amount of theater you've done is just stunning.

• 53:30Speaker 06

  I've, I've done it, it's happened on stage.

• 53:32Will Arnett?

  What do you think was the worst thing that happened where you were like fucked up?

• 53:36Sean Hayes?

  Stop the show.

• 53:37Will Arnett?

  Or like an audience member?

• 53:39Speaker 06

  I don't, I'm, I haven't, it hasn't, I mean, I, I've, I've been at the theater when it was actually, Leif Schreiber was doing, what are they doing, A Few From The Bridge? But where literally someone had a thing, an attack and Leif actually got to say, is there a doctor in the house? And he's like, oh no, it's like, and there was.

• 53:59Sean Hayes?

  A real thing.

• 53:59Speaker 06

  The guy was fine and it was all good. I was kind of like, yeah, they stopped the show and did, yeah.

• 54:04Jason Bateman?

  So the, the amount of, of work that goes into, um, Doing theater at the level that you done and that Sean just did. Is it, I'm sure you can't compare that to the kind of rigor it takes to get through a huge, huge film. But is it somewhat comparable? And if so, which do you prefer as far as what takes most out of you?

• 54:30Speaker 06

  I think a movie takes the most out of you because I think it's a seven day a week job. It's not that you can't get, there's no day off really because there's always something to do on whatever. Either you're doing a five day a week, you're doing a six day a week. You've got to kind of, you're either rehearsing something or you're.

• 54:44Jason Bateman?

  Studying.

• 54:45Speaker 06

  Studying something or you, so that, the intensity of that is like, there's nothing. And a play, once it's up and running, gets its own kind of momentum. I mean, if it's an emotionally difficult play, then obviously it's kind of like it gets, you know, but you sort of tend to be able to kind of like spend the day not thinking about it.

• 55:01Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 55:02Speaker 06

  And then go and do it.

• 55:03Jason Bateman?

  Do you see yourself staying on screen until you're old and gray and in the ground? Or would you like to sort of throttle back and just have the last section of your life, whenever that starts, just on theater? Because that's something that I kind of fantasize about. It's just like moving to New York and.

• 55:21Sean Hayes?

  A simple life.

• 55:22Jason Bateman?

  Becoming a theater actor and just like riding my bike to the theater.

• 55:26Speaker 06

  I, it's very attractive.

• 55:29Jason Bateman?

  Right?

• 55:30Speaker 06

  Yeah. I mean, I, I don't know. It depends how big the bills are, isn't it, right?

• 55:36Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that's true, right?

• 55:38Sean Hayes?

  Well, back to the TV stars.

• 55:39Speaker 06

  Yeah, exactly. Well, I mean, right, so, I don't know. I worked with, I did work with Gilgood. I worked with Gilgood on two jobs and he was actually in the power of one. I, you know, played the headmaster at this school and I did have a scene with him, but I met him. I met him around the back of the set because I'd gone around to have a cigarette back in the day when I smoked. And there he was, smoking. And he kind of went, oh, don't tell anybody I'm not supposed to be smoking. We had a cigarette together and had a chat, which was like, you know. And then I did Elizabeth about 10 years later. And he must have been well into his 90s by then.

• 56:18Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 56:20Speaker 06

  It was kind of, why is he working?

• 56:21Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 56:22Speaker 06

  Cause his, cause his boyfriend liked diamonds. I mean, it was kind of like, he was like, that was the response of, you know, that, and. Um, he, um, he was wheeled in and I kind of thought, thought I had the scene with him just to sort of like. He was playing the pope and I was playing this, um, Jesuit mass murderer. Um, um, this easy role. Um, and he, I just sort of, I kind of went and sort of to take care of him. My, my instinct was to sort of tell us, uh, how are you?

• 56:50Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 56:50Speaker 06

  You probably don't remember, we had a cigarette together, you know, of course he didn't remember.

• 56:54Will Arnett?

  Uh.

• 56:54Speaker 06

  Um, and, but he was like, he was like, I could see the age and it was like, oh my God, wow. He's really kind of, he's, is he gonna be able to remember his lines? The board went on, bang.

• 57:04Sean Hayes?

  Just showed up.

• 57:05Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 57:06Speaker 06

  And like the back went up when he was just like, and he did the scene like, it was like, oh my, blew everybody away. And then kind of went back and it was like, wow, that's, that's.

• 57:13Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 57:13Speaker 06

  And I kind of was like, that's amazing. But I was also kind of like, I've been, I don't know if you've ever ridden a horse in a movie? They have, um, they have to retire movie horses cause they, they learn the board, you know, they learn.

• 57:25Will Arnett?

  When the slate comes in and they hit it whack, it's time to go.

• 57:28Speaker 06

  So I've been, I've sat on horses that are kind of like, way that, you know, you know, cause I don't ride very well. I was just sticking on that nag, you know, it's cause it's like, and they're kind of like there. And the dad's like trying to pull its head up, trying to look cool. It's just like, look, it's like it's gonna die. And they put the board on it and it's like, oh my God, this is nice. And they have, and they can't, they have to retire these horses. And I thought, oh my God, you're a film horse. That's kind of what, do I want to turn into a film horse?

• 57:50Sean Hayes?

  Wow.

• 57:51Speaker 06

  When that board goes on, oh yeah, here we are, here we are.

• 57:53Sean Hayes?

  Take one.

• 57:54Will Arnett?

  But at the same, at the same time, I mean, there, maybe there's a little bit of sort of wisdom in, in. Staying active in that way is part of the reason that he was able to stay, you know, be alive into his nineties.

• 58:05Speaker 06

  I mean, maybe do a crossword, I don't know, but.

• 58:07Will Arnett?

  Yeah, cause otherwise he is in, he's in Portugal, uh, right?

• 58:10Speaker 06

  No, totally, totally. I get it, you know, I mean, how, how, I mean, going back to that hysteria at the, at the, um, at the, in the school play. That thing, that drug, that thing that gets you.

• 58:21Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 58:22Speaker 06

  See, I brought it back there, it's really good.

• 58:23Will Arnett?

  You know, I like it. I, I like it. I kind of wanted to get back, I'm glad you, you mentioned that because I kind of wanted to go back to that moment, you're in the theater. And go all the way back to that moment, you're in the theater, you're watching Blade Runner. Cause it really made me think about. I was gonna bring this up before about, and I was gonna ask you guys, what is that thing? What was that sort of that seminal moment in your life? What was the film, the book that you read? And do you go back and still, cause I, I have found now that I'm in my 50s, I'm now re-looking for moments like that where I get inspired. I'm reading a book right now that I was-

• 58:53Speaker 06

  It's called a midlife crisis.

• 58:53Will Arnett?

  It is a midlife crisis, believe me. I should, I should be wearing a fucking hat the last 10 years that said, "Ask me about my midlife crisis." But, but, but, uh, and yes, I had a Porsche, obviously, and I've had, but all of that. Do, do, do, you know, do you guys, have you guys had those moments? Do you remember being young and a book or a film or something, you went like-

• 59:17Sean Hayes?

  Mine is 11 years old, I was 11 years old, my brother took me for my 11th birthday, my brother Kevin took me to go see E.T. And I was 11 years old and I, and everybody in the theater was crying, as they were at the end. Um, and I said to my brother, I go, I said I'd give anything to be him. And my brother thought, like, the fantasy, like, "Oh, Elliot, to have a friend like E.T." And I go, "No, I'd give anything to be Henry Thomas, who played Elliot." And my brother's like, "The actor?" And I was like, "Yeah, to make people feel that, that would be amazing."

• 59:48Will Arnett?

  JB, anything, do you remember a moment you were inspired by something?

• 59:50Jason Bateman?

  Matthew Broderick do Brighton Beach memoirs on Broadway. I think I was like 15 or something, and I, I could've gone, I could, there was like, I was a fork in the road. I could've stopped doing what I was doing, but I saw him do that and I just had such a good time. And I was like, "Oh, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna do that." Keep doing that, yeah.

• 1:00:07Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, for me, it was, it wasn't even seeing, for me, it was, I'm, I was 17, I remember this so clearly, and I read On The Road by Jack Kerouac. And it sounds so cliche, but fuck, I was like, "You can get out into the world?" And that was actually spurred me to go, "I can move to New York." And I moved when I was 20, and it was like, "Yeah, fucking Kerouac, that's what they do."

• 1:00:29Speaker 06

  Where did you grow up?

• 1:00:30Will Arnett?

  That, in Toronto, in Canada. And you're like, "That's what you do. If you wanna be out in the world, you gotta get out into the world." And it's, that really spurred me on for the rest of my life, I think.

• 1:00:40Sean Hayes?

  I love that. Daniel, what's, what's gonna happen with you really for the rest of the day? And by the way-

• 1:00:45Jason Bateman?

  Talk about queer. I want, I want to hear a little bit about queer. So queer's out December 13th. You, you read the script, you, you think immediately, do you think about the character? Are you thinking about that incredible director, Luca Guadagnino? Or, or, or what? What's going through your mind?

• 1:01:01Speaker 06

  All of that, all of that.

• 1:01:03Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:03Speaker 06

  Yeah, all of that. That's like, I mean, I just, I wanted to work with Luca. I think he's, you know, he's just a really

• 1:01:08Jason Bateman?

  Incredible.

• 1:01:08Speaker 06

  Just exciting, kind of out there director who's just pushing it.

• 1:01:13Jason Bateman?

  But so it was a pretty quick yes, yes?

• 1:01:15Speaker 06

  Totally, yeah.

• 1:01:16Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:16Speaker 06

  And the script, you know, was, I mean, yeah, I mean, it's the, I, I, getting offered a really complicated, interesting, funny, sad human being to play.

• 1:01:29Sean Hayes?

  I can't wait to see it.

• 1:01:30Will Arnett?

  I know, I know, me too, me too.

• 1:01:32Jason Bateman?

  Congratulations on that.

• 1:01:33Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:01:35Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. All right, you're done. You've done great. Yeah, now you can get your cold eggs there. I'm very sorry.

• 1:01:42Speaker 06

  That's all right. I'm just, I'm just not going to eat the potatoes in front of you.

• 1:01:45Jason Bateman?

  Sean will be here soon.

• 1:01:46Speaker 06

  But that's my personal, I've got a problem with that, but it's.

• 1:01:50Sean Hayes?

  I'll take him off your.

• 1:01:51Speaker 06

  I have to go into a dark cupboard and eat potatoes.

• 1:01:53Sean Hayes?

  Wait, Daniel, how, how, like, do you, do you live in the UK?

• 1:01:58Speaker 06

  I do. I lived in New York, I lived in New York for nearly 20 years, no, 15 years, but, and moved back to London this summer.

• 1:02:05Sean Hayes?

  And do you love, do you love visiting LA? Or you're like, I'm in, I'm out?

• 1:02:09Speaker 06

  I mean, I, I, it's kind of, it's, it's, you know, it's love, hate, it's all that thing. It's like, I really, I do love this and I love California and I love, I just, I went to the desert for a couple of days before I started this to get some kind of

• 1:02:21Jason Bateman?

  Nice.

• 1:02:21Speaker 06

  R and R.

• 1:02:22Sean Hayes?

  Good.

• 1:02:22Speaker 06

  Yeah. And, you know, it's like, there's no, no place like this on earth. And then I want to go, and then I want to leave really quickly.

• 1:02:28Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:02:29Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:02:30Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I got it.

• 1:02:30Will Arnett?

  Now, do you, last question, do you, do you, do you still follow Liverpool at all?

• 1:02:34Speaker 06

  Yes, yeah.

• 1:02:34Will Arnett?

  You do?

• 1:02:35Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah, I do, yeah, religiously, yeah.

• 1:02:36Will Arnett?

  Yeah, same.

• 1:02:37Speaker 06

  I don't get to many games, but sadly, but I, now I'm back in England, I'm hoping to get to.

• 1:02:41Will Arnett?

  Let's, let's come in the new year, I'm going to come over there, let's go to a game, let's make this.

• 1:02:44Speaker 06

  I would, I would really like that.

• 1:02:45Will Arnett?

  Okay, great.

• 1:02:46Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah, I really like that.

• 1:02:47Jason Bateman?

  Daniel, thank you so much for doing that, pal.

• 1:02:49Speaker 06

  Thank you.

• 1:02:49Jason Bateman?

  Huge joy your day.

• 1:02:50Sean Hayes?

  Huge fan.

• 1:02:50Speaker 06

  Yeah, thank you.

• 1:02:51Jason Bateman?

  All right, buddy.

• 1:02:52Speaker 06

  Bye.

• 1:02:52Jason Bateman?

  Thank you.

• 1:02:53Speaker 06

  I, I don't know how to stop this.

• 1:02:54Jason Bateman?

  Slam it. There you go.

• 1:02:57Jason Bateman?

  Now, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's a guy's guy. He's a, he's a woman's guy, too.

• 1:03:01Will Arnett?

  Yup.

• 1:03:02Jason Bateman?

  And he slammed the computer, you know?

• 1:03:03Sean Hayes?

  And he slammed the computer shut.

• 1:03:04Jason Bateman?

  A great, a great sign.

• 1:03:05Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:03:06Sean Hayes?

  You love that, JB.

• 1:03:07Jason Bateman?

  I really do.

• 1:03:07Sean Hayes?

  He is, he's great. Like, you know, it's how do you talk to him without bringing up James Bond? I, I can't tell if he's sick of it, or he's like...

• 1:03:14Jason Bateman?

  I think we did a good job of not peppering him with all the shit he's been asked, maybe? I don't know. I've never seen an interview with him.

• 1:03:20Sean Hayes?

  I mean, but it's, I always say this on this, on this little podcast of ours, is like, when I meet people I've never met before like that, I'm huge fans. Of course, I want to ask him all the fan questions, but I'm nervous.

• 1:03:30Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:30Jason Bateman?

  I know.

• 1:03:30Sean Hayes?

  You know, like...

• 1:03:31Will Arnett?

  How many films have you seen a billion times? I want to get down to your numbers now.

• 1:03:35Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I mean, I, honestly, I've seen that so many times, casino, I've seen all of them so many times. But Skyfall is Scotty's favorite, and we've seen that many, many times.

• 1:03:43Jason Bateman?

  That's incredible.

• 1:03:44Will Arnett?

  It's really...

• 1:03:44Sean Hayes?

  Skyfall? You've never seen Skyfall?

• 1:03:46Jason Bateman?

  That's the one, right?

• 1:03:47Will Arnett?

  Oh, it's so good.

• 1:03:47Sean Hayes?

  Wait, are you kidding, Jay?

• 1:03:49Will Arnett?

  It's so good.

• 1:03:49Jason Bateman?

  Invite me over, for Christ's sake.

• 1:03:51Sean Hayes?

  Wait, Jason, Skyfall is amazing!

• 1:03:54Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it's amazing.

• 1:03:54Jason Bateman?

  I want to use it.

• 1:03:55Sean Hayes?

  And you love Javier Bardem. He takes his teeth out and is fucking crazy.

• 1:03:59Jason Bateman?

  Spoiler alert.

• 1:04:02Jason Bateman?

  Wait, what's your favorite line that he ever said?

• 1:04:04Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:04:05Sean Hayes?

  Well, no, I was...

• 1:04:05Jason Bateman?

  Oh, this, my ear. I hear it through my ear.

• 1:04:08Sean Hayes?

  Take your hand away from your ear.

• 1:04:10Will Arnett?

  Take your hand away from your ear.

• 1:04:12Jason Bateman?

  Oh, what a line. Yeah.

• 1:04:14Sean Hayes?

  No, because it kicked out the whole...

• 1:04:15Will Arnett?

  Is James Bond around? That was another one.

• 1:04:20Sean Hayes?

  No, but, but, uh...

• 1:04:22Jason Bateman?

  Go ahead, go ahead, Sean.

• 1:04:23Will Arnett?

  Oh, Sean, hey Sean, I know you were gonna say, fuck me, dude. Watching your face try to line up a buy.

• 1:04:30Jason Bateman?

  Because he looks down at the computer, because he kind of works on them, I think.

• 1:04:32Will Arnett?

  Of course he does.

• 1:04:32Sean Hayes?

  No, no, I, I had one. I have one.

• 1:04:35Jason Bateman?

  Have we ever gotten a bunch of, a bunch of suggestions from our listeners of what, what we can do for our buys? I know, but do we have a portal for them to, to fill?

• 1:04:45Will Arnett?

  A portal?

• 1:04:47Jason Bateman?

  Fill our portal?

• 1:04:48Will Arnett?

  What do you mean?

• 1:04:49Jason Bateman?

  Or some sort of a site? They can put all these recommendations, so we can stop listening to Sean's shitty buys?

• 1:04:55Will Arnett?

  But also, it's not the shitty buys.

• 1:04:58Sean Hayes?

  No, it's not.

• 1:04:58Will Arnett?

  It's the way he goes, it's the way he goes, blah, blah, blah, and he goes, "Yeah, so also I was thinking that, uh..." And you're like, fuck dude.

• 1:05:07Jason Bateman?

  Here it goes.

• 1:05:07Will Arnett?

  What are you doing?

• 1:05:08Sean Hayes?

  No, I was gonna say, what does Stye, what does Jason Stye rhyme with?

• 1:05:12Jason Bateman?

  No, that's no good. Will, you got one?

• 1:05:14Sean Hayes?

  I don't have one. That's mine.

• 1:05:15Will Arnett?

  No, that's, I know, I'm glad that it's.

• 1:05:18Jason Bateman?

  You should be guest related, you know, it should be tied into the guest somehow.

• 1:05:22Sean Hayes?

  Well, I mean.

• 1:05:23Will Arnett?

  Skyfall, its original title was.

• 1:05:25Sean Hayes?

  Bye.

• 1:05:30Jason Bateman?

  Sounds like you got yourselves in a little bind.

• 1:05:35Will Arnett?

  Robbie.

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