"Taron Egerton"

Be sure to shower with extra shampoo; we have Taron Egerton in the house this week. The land of plenty, the middle of nowhere, and how everyone’s home is their home. “You’re learning guys, you’re learning…” on an all-new SmartLess.

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

• 0:00Sean Hayes?

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• 2:01Sean Hayes?

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• 2:43Jason Bateman?

  Listen, I think you two are gonna be great at this. This is your first podcast, the both of you? Sean, Will?

• 2:47Sean Hayes?

  This, yeah.

• 2:48Will Arnett?

  Just the first time out, yeah, first time out. What do we need to know?

• 2:52Jason Bateman?

  Will, just go ahead and talk into that big foamy black thing in front of your lips.

• 2:55Will Arnett?

  And what do I do with my microphone?

• 2:56Sean Hayes?

  Microphone. Wow, welcome to Smartless.

• 3:16Jason Bateman?

  Good morning, good day, good evening, listener.

• 3:18Will Arnett?

  We had, we had a real robust in-house Smartless text chain going this morning.

• 3:24Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that's right.

• 3:25Sean Hayes?

  It's fascinating. I love talking about that stuff.

• 3:28Will Arnett?

  Talking about all the scary stuff.

• 3:29Sean Hayes?

  On and on in the world.

• 3:31Jason Bateman?

  Like AI, I don't, listener, I don't know if you've heard about this, this is, the acronym is AI, it stands for artificial intelligence.

• 3:38Sean Hayes?

  We go back.

• 3:39Jason Bateman?

  And it's coming, and it's going to be freaky.

• 3:44Will Arnett?

  I wish the listeners could see how dead your eyes were when you were.

• 3:47Jason Bateman?

  Shut up, Will, this is serious.

• 3:51Jason Bateman?

  No, it's coming and um.

• 3:53Will Arnett?

  So what now? I'm run for the hills by a pistol? What are we doing?

• 3:57Jason Bateman?

  Or I guess double down on um, just chatting with folks like we're doing. Yes. I guess you can kind of robot us, can't you?

• 4:06Will Arnett?

  No way. There's no way. Sean, there is no way, Jason. It's me, Will. I'm here.

• 4:12Jason Bateman?

  Sean, you look so good today.

• 4:14Will Arnett?

  It is a pleasure to be on Smarly's.

• 4:17Jason Bateman?

  I'm excited for our next guest.

• 4:20Sean Hayes?

  Wait, do I have any, do I have any good dad jokes?

• 4:24Jason Bateman?

  Oh, you're gonna try to lighten things?

• 4:26Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I got one. Ready for this?

• 4:28Will Arnett?

  Yeah, open up the file.

• 4:29Sean Hayes?

  What do you call, what do you call a teacher who never farts in public?

• 4:35Will Arnett?

  What's that?

• 4:36Sean Hayes?

  Private tutor.

• 4:37Jason Bateman?

  Oh my goodness, Sean.

• 4:40Will Arnett?

  Sean, that's really fun.

• 4:41Sean Hayes?

  That is fun.

• 4:42Jason Bateman?

  I've taken that one. I'm gonna ride that for a week.

• 4:46Sean Hayes?

  I know how that feels.

• 4:47Jason Bateman?

  I was gonna say, speaking of which, um, no, Sean, do you have a callback today? Or a photo shoot or something? Cause you look, you do look great.

• 4:58Sean Hayes?

  Oh, thanks. Yeah.

• 5:00Jason Bateman?

  What's, what's the occasion?

• 5:01Sean Hayes?

  I didn't, I took a shower and uh, this is what it looks like. Yeah.

• 5:06Jason Bateman?

  There we have it.

• 5:07Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 5:08Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I took a shower.

• 5:09Jason Bateman?

  Now, when you shower, do you shampoo your hair and condition it?

• 5:12Sean Hayes?

  I don't condition, I've never conditioned my hair. I just shampoo.

• 5:16Jason Bateman?

  Okay.

• 5:16Sean Hayes?

  Or I get the shampoo.

• 5:18Jason Bateman?

  Every time you shower, you shampoo your hair?

• 5:20Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, who doesn't?

• 5:21Jason Bateman?

  Uh, people who look good?

• 5:22Will Arnett?

  I don't.

• 5:23Sean Hayes?

  What do you mean?

• 5:23Will Arnett?

  Every time.

• 5:24Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. You shampoo your hair every time you shower, you get that fluffy shitty hairdo like Shampi Haze.

• 5:30Will Arnett?

  And you're getting rid of the natural oils. Okay, you get, you're washing with your natural oils.

• 5:34Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you need some clump.

• 5:36Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you need your natural oils.

• 5:37Jason Bateman?

  You need your natural clump.

• 5:38Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, but what about?

• 5:39Will Arnett?

  You gotta get the Renzo's oil, okay? That's what that movie was about Lorenzo.

• 5:45Jason Bateman?

  Do you know, can I reference one of my own projects, please? Thank you.

• 5:49Will Arnett?

  Please do, yeah, here we go.

• 5:50Jason Bateman?

  A picture called Paul. Not widely seen, but I did play a secret service agent, last name Zoil. One of the last scenes of the movie, I finally introduced myself, first name Lorenzo.

• 6:07Will Arnett?

  What a sweaty joke.

• 6:09Jason Bateman?

  And I was told by the director.

• 6:12Will Arnett?

  Edgar Wright.

• 6:13Jason Bateman?

  No, it was actually Greg Mottola.

• 6:15Will Arnett?

  Oh, Greg Mottola, right, yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. But it was you and.

• 6:19Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, he says, he says, you know, I think it's the first time he's ever really heard this himself. Like, so in other words, play a beat, once you say, I'm Detective Zoil, Lorenzo Zoil, and then like play a beat of like, oh my God, that sounds like the movie.

• 6:37Sean Hayes?

  Right. Like a little wink?

• 6:38Jason Bateman?

  And so it was, so it was funny. I do recommend a rental on that.

• 6:43Sean Hayes?

  Paul, it's called?

• 6:44Jason Bateman?

  It's called Paul.

• 6:45Sean Hayes?

  All right.

• 6:46Jason Bateman?

  Seth Rogen plays an alien.

• 6:47Will Arnett?

  I'd look for, I'd look for like a free stream, maybe. You know what I mean?

• 6:51Jason Bateman?

  Try five minutes of free and then go ahead and rent.

• 6:54Will Arnett?

  I'd, I'd get on a VPN and stream illegally.

• 6:58Sean Hayes?

  If it's $2.99, I'll, I'll buy it.

• 7:01Jason Bateman?

  What else? Okay, I'm back in Atlanta.

• 7:03Sean Hayes?

  Oh, yeah.

• 7:04Jason Bateman?

  I'm in my final week here.

• 7:05Sean Hayes?

  Are you so excited?

• 7:06Jason Bateman?

  You guys are in Los Angeles. I'm, I'm very excited, I'm very excited to be, to be done. It's been a great project, but I am excited to come home, see you folks again.

• 7:13Will Arnett?

  When are you done? Saturday?

• 7:15Jason Bateman?

  I'm done on Sunday, today's Wednesday.

• 7:16Will Arnett?

  Sunday, I, I'm flying home Sunday too, I'm leaving today, but I'll, I'll be back Sunday.

• 7:20Jason Bateman?

  Wait, you're, you're in Los Angeles.

• 7:21Will Arnett?

  I'm in L.A., but I'm going to New York today for a few days.

• 7:24Jason Bateman?

  And then you're gonna be back on Sunday?

• 7:25Will Arnett?

  I'll be back Sunday.

• 7:26Jason Bateman?

  I'll be back in the, in the, after midnight.

• 7:29Sean Hayes?

  Oh, I'm glad we're caught up in the schedules. Wait, oh, so you're not coming back?

• 7:32Jason Bateman?

  That is so shitty, Sean.

• 7:34Will Arnett?

  God, Sean, that's so biting.

• 7:35Sean Hayes?

  So rude.

• 7:36Will Arnett?

  I know, it's so judgy.

• 7:37Sean Hayes?

  Biting. So listen, what about Sunday? Were you there, Jay, or just Will?

• 7:43Will Arnett?

  Just me.

• 7:43Sean Hayes?

  Oh.

• 7:44Jason Bateman?

  Where?

• 7:44Sean Hayes?

  I thought you went to, to Sunday Fun Day.

• 7:46Will Arnett?

  Sunday Fun Day.

• 7:46Jason Bateman?

  You were not there, I guess, Sean.

• 7:48Sean Hayes?

  I couldn't go.

• 7:48Will Arnett?

  We had a very robust conversation, actually kind of about a lot of the stuff we were talking about this morning, we were talking about AI, and we were talking about the future.

• 7:55Sean Hayes?

  But did you discuss?

• 7:56Will Arnett?

  The present, we discussed the fact that we're all a human.

• 8:02Sean Hayes?

  No, oh, for, on Sunday, Scotty rented a boat. We went out on to the ocean in a boat.

• 8:06Will Arnett?

  Well, that sounds like a focus.

• 8:08Jason Bateman?

  He managed to wedge his little talk notes in. Oh, really?

• 8:12Will Arnett?

  Doesn't that sound like a focus feature? Doesn't that sound like a little indie film? Scotty rented a boat?

• 8:18Sean Hayes?

  To go in companion with Paul.

• 8:20Jason Bateman?

  Is he still, is he, did he make it back home or are they still searching for him?

• 8:24Sean Hayes?

  No, we all, we all were gonna go and, um, and-

• 8:27Jason Bateman?

  You guys used to have a boat, though. So you've torn around with maybe getting another one?

• 8:31Sean Hayes?

  Hmm, I don't know, maybe.

• 8:32Will Arnett?

  Does Scotty, does Scotty pilot, uh, the boat?

• 8:35Sean Hayes?

  Well, he did this one for a little bit, but it had a captain. Yeah, it had a little captain.

• 8:39Will Arnett?

  But he likes to get behind the, does he wear a little cap?

• 8:41Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you know, he, no, he doesn't wear a little cap, but he likes to drive big machinery. So for one birthday one year-

• 8:49Jason Bateman?

  Insert joke here.

• 8:49Will Arnett?

  Well, he's, he's with the wrong guy. I don't know.

• 8:55Sean Hayes?

  Um, he, I, for his birthday one year, we went to Vegas, cause I knew that. And in Vegas, there's a place that you can go where you can drive bulldozers and like-

• 9:04Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 9:04Sean Hayes?

  You can like excavate land and like-

• 9:07Jason Bateman?

  Have you guys ever done that? Or Will, have you ever done that? I've done that. It's incredible driving those big things.

• 9:12Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, right?

• 9:12Will Arnett?

  I've never driven an excavator, but I drove like a big work-

• 9:16Sean Hayes?

  Here comes an ad for GMC. Get ready.

• 9:17Will Arnett?

  Work truck. Well, GMC trucks are professional grade.

• 9:21Sean Hayes?

  Are they?

• 9:21Will Arnett?

  So if you're working your way around a work site-

• 9:24Sean Hayes?

  What happens at the Denali?

• 9:25Will Arnett?

  Well, the Denali HD or are you talking about the new Sierra EV?

• 9:30Sean Hayes?

  Oh, God.

• 9:32Jason Bateman?

  So Sean, how was the Vegas trip? That was a while ago. That was, we drove trucks and what else did we do? Did you win any money?

• 9:39Will Arnett?

  By the way, he's just doing a lot of things, the, driving the boats and then going and driving the trucks. It's all just different, just different characters from the Village People.

• 9:50Jason Bateman?

  Any ride alongs for the cop outfit? Clearly he's not doing a lot of working or are you?

• 9:56Sean Hayes?

  No, these are the things-

• 9:57Will Arnett?

  By the way, you're listening to this, you're listening to this podcast and you're in, you're in a truck or you're working somewhere and you're like, these fucking Hollywood elite assholes.

• 10:05Sean Hayes?

  What are you talking about? Anybody can rent a boat and anybody can rent a-

• 10:08Will Arnett?

  They're going to Vegas to make believe I'm driving a tractor.

• 10:12Sean Hayes?

  You can buy like a hundred bucks to go, to go drive these things in Vegas.

• 10:17Will Arnett?

  Dude, you're so out of touch. I was thinking, I was coming back home. I was at 45,000 feet and I was coming home and I was thinking about how out of touch Sean.

• 10:27Jason Bateman?

  You're looking out the windshield to the past, past the pilot.

• 10:30Sean Hayes?

  I literally just spit out my teeth.

• 10:33Sean Hayes?

  Oh my god, that came out of my mouth.

• 10:35Will Arnett?

  You know, Sean, I would say though, I would like to, I actually, upon further reflection, Scotty would look good like a little sailor outfit.

• 10:41Jason Bateman?

  Sure he would.

• 10:42Will Arnett?

  I'm just saying, like, like an old school.

• 10:44Jason Bateman?

  Alright, I'll make a note.

• 10:45Will Arnett?

  Can we make that, can we make that happen?

• 10:47Jason Bateman?

  Yes, we can make it happen. You can wear like a striped, like, nautical.

• 10:50Will Arnett?

  You know, like the bib thing that goes on the back?

• 10:52Jason Bateman?

  No shirt, no shirt. Tits just resting over the top.

• 10:57Jason Bateman?

  And then, here comes Sean in a little Gilligan outfit. Hey!

• 11:01Will Arnett?

  Don't say it.

• 11:04Will Arnett?

  You guys should go as the skipper in Gilligan for Halloween.

• 11:09Sean Hayes?

  That's, that's really funny.

• 11:12Will Arnett?

  You guys, that would be so funny.

• 11:15Sean Hayes?

  Oh my god.

• 11:16Jason Bateman?

  And we'll be Marianne and Ginger? Come on, Willie.

• 11:18Sean Hayes?

  That's really funny.

• 11:19Will Arnett?

  The professor in Marianne.

• 11:21Jason Bateman?

  Alright, let's, uh, let's wake up our guest. I'm sure he's completely passed out by now.

• 11:29Jason Bateman?

  Guys, I'm very excited, slash nervous, for today's guest, because I've always wanted to meet him. For quite a while now.

• 11:36Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 11:36Jason Bateman?

  He first hit my radar coming out of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2012.

• 11:41Will Arnett?

  What?

• 11:42Jason Bateman?

  Then he quickly became the lead in a very stylish action franchise. I can't mention because you know who he is. He voiced one of the most successful animated films. He went on to play one of the most iconic musicians of our time. Was nominated and won all kinds of awards for that.

• 11:57Sean Hayes?

  Did we text about him today?

• 12:00Jason Bateman?

  Sorry. I'm gonna go back to the top now.

• 12:02Will Arnett?

  Oh, no, no, no, please don't, please, I beg you.

• 12:04Jason Bateman?

  He has done and is doing a slew of cool stuff since then, but most recently, this hot shot has knocked me down and out. Literally killed me. In the incredibly satisfying and remarkably successful Netflix film called Carry On. Guys, please say hello to Taron Egerton.

• 12:22Sean Hayes?

  Oh, Taron Egerton!

• 12:24Jason Bateman?

  You guys didn't know, you thought, there's no way he knows him because he says he's looking forward to meeting him and then I switched it and I tricked you.

• 12:33Will Arnett?

  There's less of a red herring and more of a lie, you know what I mean?

• 12:36Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, but funny, fun to lie. My sister loves that movie, Taron.

• 12:42Will Arnett?

  No way.

• 12:43Jason Bateman?

  Which one, Sean? Carry on, carry on.

• 12:45Will Arnett?

  No, which?

• 12:46Jason Bateman?

  Oh, great film, great film, great bad guy in that. Let Taron talk. Good morning, Taron. Hi, Taron.

• 12:51Speaker 03

  Good day. How are you guys? Thanks so much for having me on.

• 12:55Jason Bateman?

  Very excited you're here.

• 12:56Will Arnett?

  We're very honoured to have you.

• 12:57Speaker 03

  Oh, it's lovely. It's nice to see you, Jason. You good?

• 12:59Jason Bateman?

  Good to see you. I love the shaved head. Listener, he's got, he's got a real tight, like a, like a swim team, almost marine type of shaved head. I've done it twice and I loved it.

• 13:10Speaker 03

  That's it streamlined, yeah. Get into where I'm going quicker. I just finished a movie where I had a kind of shaved head, so it's still growing out, yeah.

• 13:18Jason Bateman?

  So you're keeping it?

• 13:19Speaker 03

  I think so, for now, yeah, for now.

• 13:21Jason Bateman?

  Through the summer because it's warm.

• 13:23Speaker 03

  Through the, although it doesn't get that warm when I grow it out anymore. I'm not blessed like you guys are. You guys have got, you guys have got three very fine heads of hair.

• 13:32Jason Bateman?

  No, it's all fake, snaps.

• 13:34Will Arnett?

  It's all snapped on, glued.

• 13:37Jason Bateman?

  Now, where do we find you? You're in Los Angeles?

• 13:40Speaker 03

  No, I'm not. I'm in Wales. I, I got back from Australia a couple of weeks ago where I just finished a film and I've come home to see my family. So I'm here for two weeks before.

• 13:49Jason Bateman?

  I've got questions about Wales.

• 13:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 13:52Jason Bateman?

  You know, we're, we're kind of friendly with Gareth Bale.

• 13:55Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 13:56Jason Bateman?

  Wales's own Gareth Bale, listener, that's a soccer player.

• 13:58Speaker 03

  A celebrated son of Wales, yeah.

• 13:59Will Arnett?

  Celebrated.

• 14:00Jason Bateman?

  Very celebrated.

• 14:01Speaker 03

  And you've had Matthew Rees on the podcast before and listened to that episode.

• 14:04Will Arnett?

  Yeah, we've had a few, we've had a few very distinguished and now we've rounded it out. We've had the most distinguished Welshman alive, I think.

• 14:12Jason Bateman?

  Sweet Willie's done some time there in Wales, haven't you?

• 14:14Will Arnett?

  I don't want to call it done sometime. I, I was able to enjoy some time in Wales for a few months, many years back, in Cardiff. Beautiful country, man, beautiful.

• 14:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's gorgeous. So I'm from Aberystwyth and it's, it's a stunning part of the world. I'm further north, couple of hours north. But when I finish a job, I like to come back and just decompress, spend time with my.

• 14:37Will Arnett?

  Is that on the way to Snowdonia? Is that this, in that kind of?

• 14:41Speaker 03

  If you're coming from Cardiff, it is, yeah. It is right on the coast.

• 14:43Jason Bateman?

  Snowdonia is a place in Wales?

• 14:45Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 14:46Speaker 03

  Snowdonia is a place in Wales and the mountain at the center of that area is called Snowdon. And I think it's might be the third or second highest peak in the UK, I think.

• 14:56Sean Hayes?

  Sounds like a game.

• 14:57Will Arnett?

  Which would make it good sixty or seventy feet tall.

• 15:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, yes, exactly, exactly.

• 15:02Jason Bateman?

  Um, now, tell me about what if, if, if you're a dummy like me and you're like, hey, I don't know whether I should go to England or I should go to Wales.

• 15:11Will Arnett?

  God, that is you.

• 15:12Jason Bateman?

  What would be the biggest difference and be careful here because you're, you know, you're surrounded by Welsh. What's the big difference between Wales and England? What would be?

• 15:23Speaker 03

  Well, let's say there are quite distinct cultural differences. We have a language here that we still speak, you know?

• 15:29Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 15:29Speaker 03

  Speak, yeah, in certain parts of the country, people speak Welsh, sometimes as a first language. So you go.

• 15:36Jason Bateman?

  It's not, it's not English?

• 15:37Speaker 03

  It's not English. It's, it's Welsh.

• 15:39Jason Bateman?

  What's it sound like?

• 15:40Speaker 03

  Um, it's much, so it's much older than, than English or, you know, as I understand it. But it's very, it's filled with kind of lots of very kind of throaty, guttural sounds.

• 15:52Jason Bateman?

  Is it like, is it like Gaelic?

• 15:54Will Arnett?

  You got, you really didn't know. It's got a lot of consonants next to each other as well.

• 15:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly. So it's, so it sounds, so it's, it sounds more like, like Scots Gaelic or Irish Gaelic than English.

• 16:06Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 16:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:07Jason Bateman?

  Can you give us just a little something?

• 16:09Speaker 03

  The one that I'm always asked to do is the, like, the village that I was raised in is the thing that I'm always asked to do on talk shows and things. Because I was raised in a village called.

• 16:21Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 16:22Will Arnett?

  And then you get there and you bang a right.

• 16:27Jason Bateman?

  Wow, I wonder what that, what is it derived from? Like, it sounds, it sounds almost German, but also real Nordic, right?

• 16:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, there are bits of, you see strange little crossovers between other languages in Europe. So there are things like you'll just find odd words that are very similar. So German for rabbit is. And Welsh for rabbit is. So there's like really strange little bits of crossover that you find, yeah.

• 16:54Jason Bateman?

  I got you.

• 16:54Sean Hayes?

  Interesting.

• 16:55Jason Bateman?

  Wow. What is anything specific about your Welsh upbringing that has kind of shaped your perspective on?

• 17:04Will Arnett?

  Your your career, like managing kind of the the silliness and the nonsense sometimes that that that we all kind of enjoy slash navigate. Anything anything about your Welsh upbringing that has specifically suited you for that?

• 17:20Speaker 03

  Well, I think I'm from a fairly kind of, you know, I'm not from a particularly affluent part of the world. I'm from a very normal town, quite blue collar, as you'd probably say. And I come from a place where people are quite, I think, quite down to earth, quite relatable and real. You know, a lot of my early adult life and the end of my teens was spent kind of, I don't know, we've got like the most pubs per square capitol of anywhere in the country.

• 17:50Will Arnett?

  Really?

• 17:51Speaker 03

  And it's and it's and it less, less, less now, but I remember when I was coming up, you'd still see groups of older gentlemen who'd kind of spontaneously break out into song and sing kind of, you know, lovely harmonies and things. We have a tradition of male voice choirs here in Wales, and that's something that I think has kind of seeped into who I am.

• 18:13Will Arnett?

  Oh, that's interesting. Right. Would that would that explain your ability to sing?

• 18:18Speaker 03

  I think in part, you know, most Welsh people have a go at some point, I think. We have choirs are a big part of school life, certainly in my experience anyway, and I think that's something that I that I've definitely carried forward into my life because I've done a couple of bits of singing, yeah.

• 18:34Will Arnett?

  So, Taron, so then how did you come from this this sort of small town in Wales, you know, sort of out, out, you know, out in the sort of rural area, if you will?

• 18:44Speaker 03

  Yes, the middle of nowhere, mate.

• 18:46Will Arnett?

  Middle of nowhere. I was, I didn't want to say that.

• 18:48Speaker 03

  No, you're fine, you're fine.

• 18:50Will Arnett?

  Okay, okay. So, middle of nowhere, Wales, beautiful country, but but middle of nowhere, and then you end up and now you're Taron Egerton movie star. So, what that that's a kind of a long way to go. What was the first step in that to sort of move from there in that direction?

• 19:07Speaker 03

  Well, thank you. I thank you very much. That's very nice of you to say. But I I so it was a lot to do with the town I'm from, actually. The town I'm from is called Aberystwyth, and we had a we have a great art center. And I joined a youth theatre there when I was 15. I moved I moved from one part of Wales to another when I was 12, and I had a couple of years where I really struggled to. Acclimatize and make friends and meet new people. And I joined a youth theatre when I was 15. And it just felt like the universe clicked into place. You know, I found my tribe. I felt like I had an aptitude to something which wasn't a feeling I'd really had before.

• 19:45Jason Bateman?

  Was that something, sorry to interrupt you, but was that something that like your parents were like, "Oh, poor Taron is not making friends and we keep moving around and maybe joining this theatre group, honey, you'd meet some friends?" Or was it a passion you had for acting?

• 19:57Speaker 03

  No, I don't, I think it was, I think I just was watching other people do it from afar and started to get that itch and that craving. And I always, I was, I think I always, even though, don't get me wrong, even though I was struggling to kind of acclimatize in a new place, I was still an insufferable, attention-seeking, class clown, you know? So it was, it was like an appealing outlet for that, I think.

• 20:22Will Arnett?

  Can't relate.

• 20:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:23Jason Bateman?

  Old Honeyback Ham, Arnett.

• 20:25Will Arnett?

  You know, it's funny, Sean, it's not dissimilar, it's not dissimilar from you. I'm, I'm, all bits aside, right?

• 20:31Jason Bateman?

  Oh, please expand.

• 20:31Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 20:32Will Arnett?

  And what I was gonna say was, it occurs to me, and this is nothing new, it's not breaking news, but there is a recurring theme here that we hear from a lot of people, a lot of performers, of how many times people, when they're younger, join a local theatre group, a local theatre, whatever. And how important these things are in our communities for, for being an outlet, not just an outlet for kids, not, not as a cert, not as a conduit to superstardom, but just a place for kids who don't feel like they fit in.

• 21:00Jason Bateman?

  Find your voice, yeah.

• 21:01Will Arnett?

  To find their voice.

• 21:01Jason Bateman?

  That's right.

• 21:02Will Arnett?

  And how often we hear it and how important that is and how much we need to protect that.

• 21:07Jason Bateman?

  Because it's one of the few, I think so too, I think it's one of the few places where it doesn't matter who you are.

• 21:12Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 21:13Jason Bateman?

  What color your skin is, who you are, your gender, anything at all, everybody's welcome.

• 21:17Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 21:18Jason Bateman?

  Team sports, too. Team sports, yeah, and sports, too.

• 21:22Sean Hayes?

  And we will be right back.

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• 23:52Jason Bateman?

  And now, back to the show.

• 23:55Will Arnett?

  So you joined this local youth theater and you find a place where you find your people, as it were, yeah?

• 24:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly. That's exactly what it felt like. Found my tribe. And, you know, what ensued between the ages of 15 and 19 were just these really blissful years of being really creative, really social, really out of my shell. And it was all kind of tied together through drama. So I was, you know, I was getting involved with Shakespeare plays and more contemporary stuff. And I just felt that I was in my groove, in my lane, really, really loved it. And, and I, by the time I was about 17, I think I knew that I wanted to go to drama school. And so I auditioned.

• 24:42Speaker 03

  And this ties back to me being the insufferable attention seeker. The first year I auditioned, I was, I was, I was rejected everywhere. And, and from the limited amount of feedback I got, they said that I was a little, a little underprepared and a little, maybe a little cocksure of myself. And that really, really took me down a couple of pegs. And the following year-

• 25:07Will Arnett?

  But you took the note, but you took the note and recovered.

• 25:09Jason Bateman?

  I've gotten that note. It's debilitating.

• 25:11Speaker 03

  Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I think so.

• 25:14Will Arnett?

  Bubble popper. Did you have, was there, was there, was there a mentor in there? Was there a person in that, in that journey or multiple people who you can identify as people who encouraged you and pushed you the right way?

• 25:26Speaker 03

  Totally. There's so many people. I mean, the first people that spring to mind are my, my family. So at that time, we were still, we were still, we still rented the family home. We, you know, my, I've never wanted for anything growing up, but I'm not from an affluent background. And my, each, each audition for drama school-

• 25:49Speaker 03

  Cost somewhere in the region of forty to sixty pounds. And my, uh, my auntie paid for one, my father paid for one, my stepfather paid for one, my mother paid for one. And I paid for one and, and it was a real family effort to get me to this handful of auditions. And, um.

• 26:05Jason Bateman?

  I'm like picturing Charlie Babbitt in Charlie and Chocolate Factory.

• 26:09Speaker 03

  It was a lovely, it was a lovely.

• 26:10Jason Bateman?

  Same bed, it's like, yeah.

• 26:14Speaker 03

  And then, yeah, the second year, I, it all came together and I got a few offers at different drama schools and, um. Yeah, and the rest is, the rest is history.

• 26:24Will Arnett?

  What, what monologues did you do for, for your auditions? Do you remember?

• 26:27Speaker 03

  Well, weirdly, really weirdly, I, I was required to sing a song and I did your song. Uh, by Elton John.

• 26:35Jason Bateman?

  That's great.

• 26:36Speaker 03

  And Bernie Taupin. And then I did, um. Edmund, Down Nature, my goddess, which is a kind of classic flashy villain turn from King Lear.

• 26:47Speaker 03

  And I, I actually can't remember what my modern piece was. But, yeah.

• 26:52Sean Hayes?

  That's so cool. And what was your growing up? First of all, two things. One is when you said you were singing stuff, I have a little tidbit, I don't know.

• 26:58Will Arnett?

  Sean, I thought you were gonna say when he said your song, you were gonna say my song, like Five Dollar Foot Long, right? Isn't that your song?

• 27:05Will Arnett?

  The subway.

• 27:05Jason Bateman?

  That's his anthem, not his song.

• 27:08Will Arnett?

  Five Dollar.

• 27:09Sean Hayes?

  Dollar Foot Long. So, um, no, one little tidbit, I don't know if it's true, but Irish dancing, you know how, have you ever seen Irish dancing when they don't?

• 27:16Jason Bateman?

  The ankle slapping?

• 27:16Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, where they don't move the upper part of their body.

• 27:21Sean Hayes?

  They don't move the upper part of their body. Do you know why?

• 27:24Jason Bateman?

  Why?

• 27:24Sean Hayes?

  Because I don't know if this is true, but in Ireland, dancing used to be against the law or something like that. And so people, the, the police used to walk by the pubs and so they didn't see the upper part of their body moving. They would just move the bottom part of their legs. And that's how it, that's what I heard.

• 27:41Will Arnett?

  God, I hope it's not.

• 27:42Jason Bateman?

  What do you mean you heard? On what website are you diving into? Where'd you hear that?

• 27:46Sean Hayes?

  I, I heard that growing up because I'm Irish.

• 27:49Will Arnett?

  Can we just, can we just block in conjecture wherever we want now? Can we just like?

• 27:54Sean Hayes?

  I asked Chat G P T.

• 27:56Jason Bateman?

  That's, I mean.

• 27:57Sean Hayes?

  I don't know if that's true.

• 27:58Jason Bateman?

  If that's true, that's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard in my life.

• 28:01Sean Hayes?

  Isn't that interesting? It makes sense because they don't move your upper body. Your upper body's stiff.

• 28:04Will Arnett?

  No, we get why.

• 28:05Jason Bateman?

  And because there's windows that only go down to waist height throughout Ireland.

• 28:10Will Arnett?

  I hope it's not true. God, I hope it's not true and that you've been saying this forever.

• 28:15Sean Hayes?

  All right, so, Taron.

• 28:16Jason Bateman?

  Why don't you read a book?

• 28:18Sean Hayes?

  So the other thing is, what was your view from Wales? What was your impression of America? And was that different than when you actually arrived?

• 28:27Jason Bateman?

  How early did you see Will and Grace? And did that inspire you to make the trip across the Atlantic?

• 28:31Speaker 03

  It's a huge part of my formative years. I did, I enjoyed that show very much.

• 28:35Sean Hayes?

  Thank you, thank you.

• 28:37Speaker 03

  I, I mean, it was like, you know, certainly when I started acting, it's the perception of America is like, I don't know. I suppose the land of plenty, I guess, and you know.

• 28:53Sean Hayes?

  And was that always the destination?

• 28:55Speaker 03

  No, absolutely not, no. When I went to drama school, I thought, I thought I'm gonna be a theater actor. And I thought I will get a couple of guest spots on the telly. And that will, that will pay my rent or pay the mortgage. And I really, I really mean that. It was a shock when films happened.

• 29:13Sean Hayes?

  So that was the adult, that was the, that was the life goal? The adult, the occupation sort of career goal was I'm gonna be a working actor in the theater? And a guest spot here or there on television will subsidize?

• 29:26Will Arnett?

  And keep the lights on.

• 29:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, that would be incredible, you know? That was, that was the dream. And, and so I remember, I remember very clearly getting an offer for a drama school and sitting at the kitchen table with my mother and saying, you know, people who go, who went to this drama school are on, are on the TV. And it was like a mind blowing thing. Yeah, the West End, you know, the West End. I remember I did a summer season production of Oliver when I was about 14, 15. And they had actors come up from London to play the adult roles. And they were, you know, actors who'd been on the West End. And they, it was like, you know, it was like Humphrey Bogart had just stepped into our room.

• 30:11Speaker 03

  You know, it was that level of kind of grandeur.

• 30:14Sean Hayes?

  And for Tracy, the West End is the London version of Broadway, just so my sister knows.

• 30:19Jason Bateman?

  So then, Taron, was there enough time for you to be comfortable with where you are today? Cause dude, you're. Are you even thirty? Like, you're not.

• 30:30Speaker 03

  I am, I'm thirty, I'm thirty-five.

• 30:33Jason Bateman?

  Okay, so then the amount of time.

• 30:35Speaker 03

  You look great.

• 30:35Jason Bateman?

  That's not enough, that's not a lot, it's not enough.

• 30:38Speaker 03

  Thanks, man.

• 30:38Jason Bateman?

  Like, you know, how, what is it? It's like, it's like fifteen years, I think, somewhere in that ballpark.

• 30:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, and you know what? I, I think there are times where there is, it's like, with, with the attention that comes with success, as you will have all experienced, there are days when you're really, really good at dealing with it. And there are days where you feel robust enough to be available to everybody who comes up to you and asks for a photo, or wants to have a conversation with you, or asks if you'll record a bit for their daughter's sixteenth birthday. Right. And then, of course, there are days where, not even because something bad's happened in your life, there are days where you just, you know, I think there are days where I find it much harder. And the common denominator is, and I think what people don't always realize about, you

• 31:24Speaker 03

  know, people in our position is, normally the days where you feel less good about being available to the public are days where you feel terrible about yourself. Yeah. You know, the days, there are days where your relationship to self is so weak, whether it's because, I listened to one of your episodes the other day, Sean, you know, you said that you'd eaten, I don't know, some mac and cheese at eleven PM at night. Good bit, yeah, so that's.

• 31:45Will Arnett?

  You're gonna have to narrow down the episode.

• 31:49Speaker 03

  But the guy, the guy who wakes up the next day is not gonna be as good at being the guy to take selfies as the guy who's just done ten weeks eating chicken broccoli and rice and is kind of, you know, ready to go, you know? That's, that's my experience of the world, anyway. So, in answer to your question, Jason, I find it, at times, I love it. If I feel psychologically, emotionally robust enough to be available for people, I'm great at it, but it chops and changes.

• 32:16Jason Bateman?

  Where, did you have to be, and you probably still, it's an ongoing thing, are you helpful to where you, to your family and your friends? Like, where you, where you are right now? You can't just, like, slide into Wales, you know, fresh off the set down in Australia, and, and expect everyone to be as kind of easy with the, with the light switch as you are? Like, do you have, you have to help? Them kind of intellectualize what's happened to their dear Taron as well, right? Like now you're known all over the world and you've got all this money and all of this access. And so, I mean, there's a bit of a responsibility on your end to make them comfortable with it too? Question?

• 32:53Speaker 03

  Well, I think my, I'm lucky. I'm from a well adjusted, you know, my family are well adjusted and cool. And I think we're very empathetic and understanding. So they really see, I feel very seen very clearly by my family and by the people who are important to me in my life.

• 33:10Speaker 03

  And I guess I feel like, I guess I feel like, I don't know. Sorry, I got distracted because I don't know if that was my-

• 33:17Will Arnett?

  It was like a getaway car.

• 33:19Speaker 03

  It was like some sort of souped up engine.

• 33:22Jason Bateman?

  Isn't this your haze?

• 33:24Speaker 03

  And you know, to that, to that point, Jason, it's like, you know, it's easy to kind of lament the drawbacks of being famous or noteworthy. But it's, it's fucking, it's awesome to be successful. It's awesome to do what you love. It's awesome to be involved in-

• 33:37Jason Bateman?

  Right, right.

• 33:38Speaker 03

  -telling stories and to have the money.

• 33:39Will Arnett?

  It's also really weird and it's, and it's okay to say, it's, it's very weird. And I don't know if you guys have done this. I, I've quite literally, and I'm sure members of my family are listening, sisters and, and her mom or whatever. And where I, I've had moments where I've said, hey, I'm really sorry that I put you in this position. I didn't do it on purpose, but I'm, you, you find yourself almost apologizing like-

• 34:02Jason Bateman?

  Well, sure, because you, everyone's involved. I mean, you know, Willie, you, you walk down the street with your kids and you know, photographer gets up in your face. You kind of know how to flow with it, but maybe your kids aren't, aren't even thinking about the fact that their dad is famous. And that's like weird.

• 34:17Will Arnett?

  Can I tell you something funny that Abel, my 14 year old, is a really funny kid, said the other day? We were talking about another friend of all of ours who's very, who's very well known globally. And he's, and he was talking about them and he said, ah, man, thank God we're not that famous.

• 34:33Jason Bateman?

  And Will started drinking again.

• 34:35Will Arnett?

  What I found really funny about it was A, about like his sort of perception of where everything was on, on a scale. And B, the wear of it all.

• 34:49Jason Bateman?

  It's a circus group.

• 34:51Sean Hayes?

  I love that. Wait, so Will Banks? Go ahead.

• 34:54Speaker 03

  No, I was gonna ask, I'm excited to hear, I'm excited for your project with the one that's based on the conversation with John Bishop.

• 35:02Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 35:02Speaker 03

  Is this thing on, right?

• 35:03Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 35:04Speaker 03

  That's so, when I heard about that, it was such a, such a collision.

• 35:08Jason Bateman?

  You're familiar with him, yeah, Taron?

• 35:10Speaker 03

  I know, well, I know him, I've said hello to him a few times in passing at various things.

• 35:14Jason Bateman?

  Great guy.

• 35:15Speaker 03

  My family are from Liverpool, so, you know.

• 35:18Jason Bateman?

  There you go.

• 35:19Speaker 03

  Anyone, anyone from that part of the world is, you know, I kind of feel a vague affinity with, but.

• 35:25Jason Bateman?

  Congrats on the championship, let's get it out of the way.

• 35:27Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, yeah, I mean, it's obviously a terrible thing happened, but, um.

• 35:32Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 35:33Sean Hayes?

  What happened?

• 35:34Will Arnett?

  Some people were injured, a guy drove into the celebration parade, but yeah, yeah, John, John's an amazing guy, proper Scouser, I mean, you know, just a really cool dude and.

• 35:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 35:44Will Arnett?

  Got to know him a little bit and then we've, through that, sort of, you know, inspired this film.

• 35:49Jason Bateman?

  Listener, this is, they're talking about the, the, the main figure that is the, the inspiration for Will's upcoming film with Bradley Cooper.

• 35:58Sean Hayes?

  That's right, yes.

• 35:59Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we just finished, yeah, so, yeah, it was, it was, it was a lot of fun and he's such a great guy and his life is, is fascinating.

• 36:07Speaker 03

  Did you write some?

• 36:08Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 36:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 36:09Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 36:09Speaker 03

  That's cool.

• 36:10Will Arnett?

  With, with Mark Chappell, who's a, who's a friend of the podcast, Chappy.

• 36:13Sean Hayes?

  We got it. Magic word of the day.

• 36:15Will Arnett?

  And Bradley, of course, too. So, the three of us, yeah, yeah, and.

• 36:20Jason Bateman?

  So, if, had you, had you not gotten into the Royal Academy? Was there, were you sort of getting ready to maybe do something else? Cause that was right at the age when you kind of had to decide, right?

• 36:34Speaker 03

  Oh, man, like, that's a conversation that happens regularly in, in my family, you know, um, we have a lot of pinch me and dream in moments. While I've been away filming, the, that, this, at the house I'm in now, we've been renovating for a long period of time and it's kind of just coming to fruition, it's just coming together and, um, you know, it's been made possible largely through what's happened to me in my life and, um.

• 37:04Speaker 03

  We did have that conversation over dinner the other day, you know, what, what the fuck would you have done if you hadn't been an actor? Because I can't, I can't do anything else. I can't do anything else. Getting ready for this podcast was so stressful because it involved me opening a MacBook.

• 37:21Sean Hayes?

  Oh, right.

• 37:22Speaker 03

  Changing the settings.

• 37:23Sean Hayes?

  Same.

• 37:24Speaker 03

  Plugging a mic into the device. These things are totally beyond my abilities. I'm the world's weakest millennial.

• 37:29Will Arnett?

  Well, first of all, it should be noted, Taron, we've done over 250 episodes. I don't know if you watched Sean this morning trying to do it. He couldn't connect. Over 250. Imagine if he was our pilot.

• 37:42Sean Hayes?

  I can't connect thoughts, let alone a computer.

• 37:46Jason Bateman?

  So then, Taron, it would be safe to say you probably would have been more on the labor side of things?

• 37:50Speaker 03

  Well, I don't know. Honestly, I really don't know.

• 37:54Will Arnett?

  You mean pushing a wheelbarrow? Is that what you're saying?

• 37:55Jason Bateman?

  Swinging a hammer, you know, whatever it is.

• 37:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, maybe, wow, yeah, swinging a hammer. There's people who'd laugh at the prospect of me swinging a hammer. I can't put up a set of shelves. I don't know. I think, I think I'd have figured something out, but it's true that acting is the only thing that I ever felt a huge kind of cosmic pull towards. And I love it. I absolutely love it.

• 38:16Jason Bateman?

  Could have been singing.

• 38:17Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 38:18Jason Bateman?

  Now, I did not know this. You, correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm just, you know, Wikipedia is my research partner. You sang with Sir Elton John, recorded the song that won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

• 38:37Speaker 03

  That's right, yeah.

• 38:38Jason Bateman?

  I mean, huh?

• 38:40Will Arnett?

  Wait, what?

• 38:40Jason Bateman?

  So, so did you see, you sang with him on that, on that song?

• 38:45Speaker 03

  Yeah, so, so he, he wrote.

• 38:47Sean Hayes?

  It's in the movie Rocketman. I love the movie.

• 38:49Speaker 03

  Thanks, Sean. I think it's, I think it's the credits song and it's a song that he and Bernie wrote for the movie that we sing as a, as a duet. I think it's like, it's like a call and response sort of deal, you know? And yeah, they won a, they won an Oscar for it, yeah.

• 39:04Jason Bateman?

  They, you, you, you sang how you had to do it? So you, you get, do you get to, you get to hold the Oscar for a couple of months a year?

• 39:11Speaker 03

  I think I think the Oscars are reserved for the for the chaps who who wrote it, you know.

• 39:19Will Arnett?

  But still, I mean, we'll talk about a pinch me moment.

• 39:23Jason Bateman?

  Did you sing with him in the studio or did you do your part and then later they recorded his part?

• 39:26Speaker 03

  No, we went in and sang. We went in and sang together in the studio. It was a lovely. It was a lovely experience.

• 39:34Jason Bateman?

  That's pretty wild. Of course, by this time, you guys were probably close buddies because was was he a part of your early research, auditioning, et cetera, et cetera?

• 39:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, so I sang, I'd say the animated movie that you mentioned when you when you intro'd me is called Sing. And I sang I'm Still Standing in that movie. And then then in the Kingsman sequel, Elton came along and played himself. And through that, through those two things, the the conversation around me playing him in Rocketman came about and and grew from there.

• 40:13Jason Bateman?

  So wait, wait, in turn, did the two of you kind of have that conversation on the set? And you guys decided, well, maybe we should go out and kind of pitch this together or?

• 40:21Speaker 03

  Matthew Vaughan, who directed the Kingsman films and has produced a couple of other things that I've been in as well. He had he, David Furnish and Elton, had formed a friendship. And I think the the Rocketman project in its in the iteration it was in at that time, because there was a different director and a different actor attached, had stalled. And

• 40:44Jason Bateman?

  Oh, I see. Okay.

• 40:45Speaker 03

  And we were there to kind of step in, basically. Yeah.

• 40:48Jason Bateman?

  That's cool, boy.

• 40:50Speaker 03

  Nothing if not opportunistic.

• 40:53Sean Hayes?

  I love that.

• 40:53Jason Bateman?

  Well, listen, I mean, it's the right place, right time. That's a famous, you know, part of our business.

• 40:58Sean Hayes?

  And the movie, like, when I saw the movie, you were so great in it. I love I love that movie.

• 41:03Jason Bateman?

  I have notes. Picture locked?

• 41:08Sean Hayes?

  No, but when I was watching, I was like, oh, well, the next logical move is to make the movie a stage musical.

• 41:16Speaker 03

  Yes, I've thought the same thing, yeah.

• 41:17Sean Hayes?

  Right? I mean, it's like, done. It's all done. And so I just didn't know if you wanted to ever, if you were part of that conversation or whatever.

• 41:25Speaker 03

  No, no, I'm sure it's occurred to them. David and Elton, you know, they obviously, I know that they've got various irons in the fire with theatrical endeavors, and I'm sure it's occurred to them. You're friends with Elton, right?

• 41:38Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, we've hung out for many.

• 41:41Speaker 03

  I don't know whether they've ever considered it seriously, but I don't think it would involve me. It's one of those things that I'm so, it was such a moment in my life and something I'm so fiercely proud of that I just wouldn't want to touch it.

• 41:55Sean Hayes?

  For sure. You already did it. You already did it.

• 41:59Sean Hayes?

  We'll be right back.

• 42:03Sean Hayes?

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• 42:42Sean Hayes?

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• 43:53Sean Hayes?

  And back to the show.

• 43:56Jason Bateman?

  Well, a completely different experience with the success of a project than what you experienced on your other projects that have been equally successful. I mean, you know, I would imagine that the Kingsman process was probably more startling and challenging to you because it was the first big splash into public view.

• 44:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, that was, I mean, you know, I'm very, I'm really grateful for it. It was the thing that made my name.

• 44:26Jason Bateman?

  So great.

• 44:27Speaker 03

  And I really, that first film especially, I really, I do think is kind of cool.

• 44:33Jason Bateman?

  And they're incredibly well made. I mean, we could do a whole podcast on the process of making those things with the stunts and the intricacies of the camera work and stuff. It's just stunning stuff.

• 44:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was really well done, but it was a lot. I was 23 and I remember I was making a TV show. I was a year out of drama school and I was filming a TV show for Sky in the UK. And I remember I got an email from my agent and it, at the time, it was called Huntsman and Son. And it didn't have the script, but it had two scenes in it. And it was, one of the scenes was the scene where I first meet Colin Firth's character in the pub. And I didn't know Colin was involved, I didn't know Michael Caine was involved, I didn't know anyone was involved. But I read the scene and I don't know about you guys, but I don't know about you guys, but I find that whenever I'm excited about a piece of writing, I start reading it aloud. And that's how normally I would know that it's something like, you know?

• 45:27Speaker 03

  And I was, I know the street corner I was on in London and I was reading this scene and I started reading it aloud.

• 45:35Jason Bateman?

  Whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you, selling newspapers?

• 45:37Speaker 03

  Yeah. A sandwich board? No, I was in Hoben and I just popped, popped the email open, started reading it. And as, and as I read, I kid you not, I read the scene and I thought, that's, that's my part. I've got to get that part. Wow. That's my part. And I've never actually had it since. I've never had that level of certainty.

• 46:03Jason Bateman?

  They say nowadays, you manifested it.

• 46:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, it felt like that.

• 46:06Jason Bateman?

  These hippie dippy kids today.

• 46:08Will Arnett?

  No, come on, man. You put it, you gotta put it, I tell you a film of yours turn that I really love, I love all your films and you're good.

• 46:14Jason Bateman?

  Carry on.

• 46:15Will Arnett?

  Uh.

• 46:16Jason Bateman?

  Sorry.

• 46:17Will Arnett?

  Did not, uh, I never saw that one. Is that the one, is that the one where you, your character wore a ball cap? Um, what a choice.

• 46:26Speaker 03

  Listen.

• 46:27Will Arnett?

  What a fucking, oh man, oh fucking ball cap. Did you guys see what he's doing? Um, no, I was, uh, I was gonna say, I don't know, no, we're not gonna cut that, we're gonna loop it. Uh, we're gonna, uh, did you guys see Taron in Tetris? I loved that movie, man.

• 46:46Jason Bateman?

  I didn't see it, I wanna see it.

• 46:47Will Arnett?

  It's such a great, cool film about how that game came about.

• 46:51Jason Bateman?

  I loved that game.

• 46:52Will Arnett?

  It's, it's a fascinating story, isn't it? It's a really fascinating story.

• 46:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was cool. I think I'm one of about 27 people who saw it, so I'm really thrilled.

• 46:59Will Arnett?

  It's a great little movie, man.

• 47:02Jason Bateman?

  It's about the guys that designed that game?

• 47:04Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 47:05Speaker 03

  It is, it's about, well, it sounds so dry, it's about the guy who licensed the game for distribution globally from memory and his relationship with the designer who... Uh, who designed, you know, designed the game in Russia before the war, um, in eighty nine. So, um, yeah, he, it's a fun, it's a fun movie. Uh, yeah, that was released.

• 47:26Will Arnett?

  It's amazing and people are trying to sort of muscle their way into, to grab the license for it because they understand the, the impact that it's gonna have. It's fascinating.

• 47:36Sean Hayes?

  Well, I do like the game, so I'll watch the movie.

• 47:39Will Arnett?

  Oh, thanks for, oh, thanks so much.

• 47:46Will Arnett?

  What did Tracy think of the game?

• 47:49Jason Bateman?

  Does it cut into your candy crush hours or not really?

• 47:52Will Arnett?

  The irony is that you do have such a crush on candy.

• 47:57Sean Hayes?

  It's so true, but wait, go back to the America thing for just a second, Tern.

• 48:00Jason Bateman?

  Okay.

• 48:02Sean Hayes?

  No, like, cause I wanna know, like, so I got your impression that, you know, I, cause I'm always fascinated with the perspective of people in other countries that come here and work here. What was it like when you first worked here and was it everything that you thought it would be or what was not?

• 48:19Speaker 03

  It was better. I, I love America. I bought a home in America.

• 48:23Will Arnett?

  Oh, you feel comfortable here?

• 48:26Speaker 03

  I absolutely do. And you're like, I, uh, whenever I have, you know, meetings with prospective, I don't know, directors or writers, quite often people ask, what is the perception of America now, given everything that's happening?

• 48:38Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, we'd like to know that. Please go ahead.

• 48:40Speaker 03

  And I don't know. I think it depends on who you are, but my experience of America, regardless of where you go, and I've visited, you know, various places, not just, um, New York and LA, but the people in America, from my experience, generally, just, it's just a wonderful place. It's a place, I remember when I first landed in New York, I had a really weird feeling that I was like, I don't know if it's because I've watched Home Alone too many times, but it felt like coming home, you know? There's a warmth and an, I think historically.

• 49:11Speaker 03

  But there is an inclusiveness at the heart of what America is, it seems to me, that I really love about it and um.

• 49:18Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, melting pot.

• 49:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, and I uh, I have nothing, I mean, as I say, I have a, I have a house in California that I um, that I, you know, split my time between and.

• 49:30Sean Hayes?

  That's great.

• 49:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, I love, I love being in the States. Why, what is, what's your fear, Sean?

• 49:34Sean Hayes?

  No, no, I, I like to know different people's perception because I find it fascinating. I mean, when I go over to London or people ask the same thing, what do you think of London? What do you think of England, whatever? And I, I absolutely love it over there. I mean, I haven't been to Wales, but I need to go to Wales.

• 49:50Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I'd like to go to Wales.

• 49:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, and I mean, it strikes me that like, you know, you have such microcosmic identities when you move from one place to another in a country.

• 49:59Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 50:00Speaker 03

  If you spent a weekend in Liverpool, it's going to be vastly different from your experience, you know, in Edinburgh or whatever.

• 50:05Sean Hayes?

  Right, and I walk around London, last time I was there, just a couple of months ago, and I'm like, you know, everywhere you go, it's incredible history, which we don't have here. And so, and I talk to people about it and they're like, and this one, this one girl I know over there, she's like, yeah, I always forget to look up.

• 50:21Jason Bateman?

  Hmm.

• 50:21Sean Hayes?

  I'm like, what do you mean?

• 50:22Jason Bateman?

  Or look left.

• 50:23Sean Hayes?

  I always look, I always forget to look up and look at these historical buildings because everybody's just so used to it. So fresh eyes is really cool. That's what I, I've always asked people who aren't from here, what do your fresh eyes see?

• 50:35Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:35Sean Hayes?

  You know?

• 50:36Jason Bateman?

  Now, um, Taron, you know, you are managing to knock off uh, really great commercial projects, really good sort of like artistic projects. Like, is, is this just dumb luck? No. You, you're, you're doing some sort of um, really good deliberate work in choosing what, what you do. What is, what is, what is the perfect project kind of look like to you? Is it, is it about the part? Is it about the people involved? Is it um, you know, theater versus streaming versus theatrical? Like, what, what, what, what do you, what do you look for?

• 51:14Speaker 03

  I don't know. I mean, you, you operate within the constraints of what you're, of what you're asked to do and you can all, the, the grass is always greener. I could be, you know, I could let a side of myself out where I would. Lament not doing certain things and there are things that I would love to be doing, but you have you have to focus on the things that are available to you. And I'm so lucky and I do get offered things that feel. Um, I I try, I know that I try and look for things that feel different from a character perspective. So I I'm not comfortable. I don't like the idea of being.

• 51:49Jason Bateman?

  Pigeonholed.

• 51:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, put in a box or whatever. I mean, in fact, you know, when we did Carry On, my my biggest concern about. What a picture.

• 52:02Will Arnett?

  The only thing that happened when they rolled credits is I wish they would carry on this picture.

• 52:10Jason Bateman?

  Sorry, we'll get him out soon. Um, he's running around the balcony. Go ahead.

• 52:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, I was, um, I worried that it was too, that it was too.

• 52:19Jason Bateman?

  Good.

• 52:20Speaker 03

  Too vanilla or whatever, or it was too near to me. He was a kind of average Joe guy. And I I suppose the actors that I look up to and and really admire and revere are the actors who try and stretch themselves and.

• 52:32Will Arnett?

  Like with a ball cap.

• 52:33Jason Bateman?

  Right, do have a limb, a limb and a missing tooth and a weird accent. Oh, um, I heard that.

• 52:40Speaker 03

  So, but I try and look at things like, you know, when I, when I, after Elton, I, you know, went and did that, the show for Dennis Lane, Blackbird, which I felt satisfying because it felt.

• 52:56Speaker 03

  Oh, my God. I, um, I definitely like doing things that feel different. I suppose I aspire to be some, you know, like a, I like character actors. I like actors who are different from one thing.

• 53:08Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, character actor, yeah. And unfortunately, you're too goddamn good looking to be a true character actor. So you have to act your way into that perception and you're doing it and you're getting opportunities now with scripts that lend itself to that. And so, you know, it's.

• 53:23Will Arnett?

  I'm gonna, I'm gonna ask you the Jason baby question, which is you've been doing it now for a while and you've done a lot of great work. Do you see yourself doing different stuff as in directing?

• 53:33Jason Bateman?

  That's a great question.

• 53:34Will Arnett?

  Writing something.

• 53:35Jason Bateman?

  That's a great question. It's kind of where.

• 53:36Speaker 03

  No, I mean, I, you know, I, I feel, I lis- I listened to, um, you guys talking with Jude Law and I, he summed it up pretty.

• 53:48Jason Bateman?

  We have got to get a caller on that guy. He's disrupting the record.

• 53:55Sean Hayes?

  No, go ahead.

• 53:56Jason Bateman?

  Please go ahead.

• 53:57Speaker 03

  But I feel that way. It scares me, you know, and I have such admiration for anyone who who makes that leap because I'd love, I'd absolutely love to do it. Of course I would, but I um.

• 54:08Jason Bateman?

  What's going on with Smoke? What's going on? This, this is, this is the Apple show that's coming out.

• 54:12Will Arnett?

  Tell us about that.

• 54:13Jason Bateman?

  June 27th.

• 54:14Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 54:15Jason Bateman?

  What, what drew you to it? What is it about? Is this, is this gonna be different than the thing that, that immediately precedes it? Like as you, as you're just talking about doing?

• 54:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, I, I think so. I think it's, it's definitely different from anything I've done before. So it's, it's created by Dennis Lehane, who was the creator, show owner of Blackbird.

• 54:34Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 54:34Speaker 03

  And when we finished shooting that show, he um approached me about doing another story. And um it's one of those, the trailer's out, it's just come out, but it's, it's one of those that's really hard to describe. But the, the user-friendly logline is I, I play an arson investigator who is having very, very limited success catching two prolific arsonists in a fictional town calledumberland. And um a, a police detective is brought in to help him solve these arsons, basically. And that, that role's played by Journey Smollett.

• 55:13Speaker 03

  And um, and what you learn over the course of the show is that he is harboring some secrets. And I, I, it's one of the, it's one of those shows where I, I, I don't really know. This is the first bit of press I'm doing for it and I, I have no idea how to promote it without kind of giving it away.

• 55:33Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 55:34Speaker 03

  But um, is there enough in there to craft some sort of logline?

• 55:37Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 55:39Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yes.

• 55:40Speaker 03

  But uh, basically for anyone who's seen Blackbird, it's a kind of sister piece, I suppose.

• 55:44Jason Bateman?

  Well, Dennis Lehane, I mean, it's this, this guy, tip top.

• 55:48Will Arnett?

  I mean.

• 55:49Jason Bateman?

  Now, Taron, um.

• 55:52Jason Bateman?

  You're drunk, you're out at a karaoke bar, you're feeling good.

• 55:57Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 55:57Jason Bateman?

  What's your go-to karaoke song?

• 55:59Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 56:00Speaker 03

  Faith, George Michael.

• 56:01Sean Hayes?

  Oh, yeah, you got it, Faith.

• 56:03Jason Bateman?

  Bet that's good.

• 56:04Speaker 03

  Faith, George Michael is a good one.

• 56:06Jason Bateman?

  Didn't take you a long time to answer that. How many times?

• 56:09Speaker 03

  No, that's a long, that's a long-standing one. And it depends on the mood as well, you know, if it's like a kind of, um, I don't know, if I'm looking for a bit more gravitas, maybe a couple of Radiohead numbers like Bones.

• 56:20Jason Bateman?

  Jesus.

• 56:21Speaker 03

  Or Sulk, or, you know, really dirty, maybe like Black Star, something like that.

• 56:27Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. Off the first album.

• 56:30Will Arnett?

  I love that you have a few available. Jason, never would do it.

• 56:34Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, mine's just, I'm just on the Uber app looking for a ride out of there.

• 56:39Sean Hayes?

  Mine's, mine's the, the theme to The Greatest American Hero.

• 56:43Will Arnett?

  Is that true?

• 56:43Jason Bateman?

  Okay.

• 56:44Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, remember that? Believe it or not, I'm walking on air. Remember that song?

• 56:48Will Arnett?

  Mine is, no joke, mine is Crazy by Patsy Cline, always.

• 56:53Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 56:53Sean Hayes?

  Crazy.

• 56:54Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 56:54Jason Bateman?

  What do you mean always? How much time are you doing in a karaoke?

• 56:56Will Arnett?

  I'm doing a lot of karaoke, man.

• 56:57Jason Bateman?

  Once a week?

• 56:58Will Arnett?

  You don't know my life.

• 57:00Jason Bateman?

  I don't.

• 57:01Speaker 03

  Do you sing, Jason? Do you sing?

• 57:02Jason Bateman?

  I don't, not even in the shower.

• 57:04Will Arnett?

  No.

• 57:04Jason Bateman?

  Next question.

• 57:04Sean Hayes?

  Which is why I want, I want, I want to hear you sing so bad. I have to start drinking again.

• 57:09Will Arnett?

  You have, there's so little joy in your spirit.

• 57:11Jason Bateman?

  Literally, the last time I sang was in a karaoke bar, doing press for Horrible Bosses 2, and I think, I think I was still drinking. Wasn't I? Maybe? I don't know.

• 57:21Will Arnett?

  No, you weren't.

• 57:22Jason Bateman?

  No way, right?

• 57:23Sean Hayes?

  And you did, and you did karaoke?

• 57:25Jason Bateman?

  I did, and fucking Sudeikis, this guy, you know, this guy's a natural performer.

• 57:30Will Arnett?

  He's a talent. He's, he can sing and dance.

• 57:32Jason Bateman?

  I would, I'd love to see a, a, a smackdown between you and Sudeikis.

• 57:36Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I think that, I think Taron would take him down, though.

• 57:39Jason Bateman?

  But that would be a real, that'd be a heavyweight fight.

• 57:41Speaker 03

  He's got a voice, he sings?

• 57:42Jason Bateman?

  He's got a voice and he's also just got like, he's, the guy's not uncomfortable with the, with the microphone in his hand.

• 57:48Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, he's great, yeah, yeah.

• 57:49Jason Bateman?

  Certain talent.

• 57:50Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah, I'm, I sort of find it easier when there's a, there's a character I can hide behind. Mm-hmm. So the show, the show, they wrote in a whole bit in this new show I have coming out called Smoke, where my guy is obsessed with karaoke. Oh, really? Partly, partly because they knew I could sing. And I find, I noticed that I find it much easier to do it on set as a, as, as a character than if I do it in my own Right. personal life.

• 58:20Will Arnett?

  Life at a pub or something, yeah.

• 58:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, I find it quite stressful. Yeah.

• 58:23Jason Bateman?

  Right, no, we're all like that. I, I, it's, it's called, I Hate Being Me. Also a good thing for a blank bumper sticker, Willie, if you've got a second.

• 58:31Will Arnett?

  No, it's blank t-shirts that I have.

• 58:33Sean Hayes?

  I Hate Being Me is so true.

• 58:36Jason Bateman?

  I hate being ellipses and then on the back just put me.

• 58:38Will Arnett?

  Just me. We love you, Jason, we love you.

• 58:41Sean Hayes?

  Aw, you're here.

• 58:42Jason Bateman?

  I'll tell you who we do love. Taron.

• 58:45Sean Hayes?

  Egerton.

• 58:45Jason Bateman?

  Joining us today.

• 58:47Will Arnett?

  Taron, you are something else. You are something else.

• 58:49Sean Hayes?

  Thanks, man.

• 58:49Jason Bateman?

  Um.

• 58:50Sean Hayes?

  Thanks for having me.

• 58:51Jason Bateman?

  Please say hello to anyone who cares in Wales. Um, if you see Gareth Bale, tell him to send me the money. Um, and, um, you know, best of luck with, uh, with Smoke.

• 59:02Will Arnett?

  Smoke, Smoke on Apple TV. It's on Apple TV.

• 59:04Sean Hayes?

  I can't wait to watch that. When does it come out?

• 59:06Speaker 03

  It comes out on the twenty-seventh of June.

• 59:09Sean Hayes?

  Day after my birthday.

• 59:11Jason Bateman?

  Oh.

• 59:12Will Arnett?

  No way.

• 59:12Sean Hayes?

  So for my birthday, we'll watch it.

• 59:14Will Arnett?

  For Tracy, uh, Sean's birthday is the day he was born. Is that fucking?

• 59:18Jason Bateman?

  That's pretty, it's safe to say. Are you registered anywhere, Shawnee?

• 59:22Sean Hayes?

  I, I, I'll, I'll email you. Yeah, yeah, I'm registered.

• 59:24Jason Bateman?

  Um, Taron, love you. I love seeing you again. I miss you, my friend.

• 59:28Sean Hayes?

  Nice to meet you, Taron.

• 59:29Jason Bateman?

  Say hi when you come back to LA.

• 59:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, I will, mate. Take it easy.

• 59:32Will Arnett?

  Pleasure.

• 59:33Jason Bateman?

  All right, my friend. Thank you very much.

• 59:34Will Arnett?

  Bye, Taron.

• 59:35Jason Bateman?

  Bye, bye.

• 59:35Speaker 03

  Bye, you guys. Bye, bye.

• 59:39Will Arnett?

  Okay, so anyway, so Taron was amazing. Yeah, it was so good. And I loved having Taron. It was so good.

• 59:43Jason Bateman?

  Oh, you're just trying to get to your bye? Are you excited about your bye?

• 59:46Will Arnett?

  No, no, but it was just because like he was, once he was gone and then it was like the rush to see who was gonna talk first.

• 59:51Jason Bateman?

  Look how flustered he is, Sean. I think, did Taron leave a mark on you, Will?

• 59:55Will Arnett?

  He did. I liked him a lot.

• 59:56Sean Hayes?

  Right, that's a good man.

• 59:58Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I liked him a lot. He's got a great vibe.

• 1:00:00Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:00:01Will Arnett?

  Who else does he go? No, I'm just saying.

• 1:00:03Jason Bateman?

  You're fucking breathing heavy.

• 1:00:04Will Arnett?

  He said he was single, right?

• 1:00:08Will Arnett?

  Well, you think I'm passing out?

• 1:00:12Jason Bateman?

  Somebody lay me down. Call a grown up.

• 1:00:15Sean Hayes?

  Call a grown up. No, that's a good-looking male.

• 1:00:20Jason Bateman?

  Hey, another one.

• 1:00:21Sean Hayes?

  I'm just saying, he's good-looking.

• 1:00:23Will Arnett?

  Don't objectify Taron Egerton.

• 1:00:25Jason Bateman?

  He's a good, good, good guy. Very, very good guy, great actor.

• 1:00:29Sean Hayes?

  And very smart, good head on his shoulders, focused.

• 1:00:32Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:32Sean Hayes?

  Isn't like, like, um, you know, he doesn't seem like he'd fall off the rails in any.

• 1:00:37Will Arnett?

  No, very, and he said his attention would be very low-temperature, like very even-keeled.

• 1:00:43Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:43Will Arnett?

  Do you know what I mean?

• 1:00:44Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:44Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:45Jason Bateman?

  Not some ninny.

• 1:00:46Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 1:00:47Jason Bateman?

  You know, whales should be proud.

• 1:00:49Sean Hayes?

  Oh, whales.

• 1:00:50Will Arnett?

  I'm sure they are. I'm sure they're beyond proud.

• 1:00:53Jason Bateman?

  So, Sean, how's the search going?

• 1:00:55Sean Hayes?

  Oh, good. This Sunday, Scotty and I are going to my friend Kevin's birthday party in Ojai.

• 1:01:04Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yes.

• 1:01:04Will Arnett?

  This is a long, this is a really long.

• 1:01:07Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, so it's north of here. It's called Ojai, not to be confused with.

• 1:01:11Will Arnett?

  No, no way. No fucking way, dude.

• 1:01:14Jason Bateman?

  Don't even fucking say that.

• 1:01:15Will Arnett?

  What are you doing?

• 1:01:17Sean Hayes?

  Not to be confused with Sacramento.

• 1:01:20Will Arnett?

  What are you doing?

• 1:01:23Will Arnett?

  What?

• 1:01:25Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:25Will Arnett?

  No, but you know what?

• 1:01:26Jason Bateman?

  Wait, what was that father joke you said at the beginning? The dad joke?

• 1:01:30Sean Hayes?

  I said.

• 1:01:30Jason Bateman?

  That was so good. The teacher.

• 1:01:32Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I said, what, oh, wait, where is it? Oh, yeah.

• 1:01:35Will Arnett?

  Uh, private tutor.

• 1:01:36Sean Hayes?

  What do you call a teacher who never farts in public?

• 1:01:38Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, private tutor.

• 1:01:39Will Arnett?

  Private tutor. You know, he did that, he did the, he did the Rocket Man.

• 1:01:43Jason Bateman?

  Here comes Will.

• 1:01:44Will Arnett?

  Right, which was such a great, and one of my favorite.

• 1:01:48Sean Hayes?

  Favorite songs ever.

• 1:01:50Will Arnett?

  Goodbye.

• 1:01:52Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, hello, ring-a-ring-a-rod.

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