"Julia Garner"

Are you still off sugar? It’s our friend Julia Garner. Witch energy, Waymo advocacy, pretending to be good at stuff, and feeling uncomfortable to feel comfortable. Failure is a friend of the clown… on an all-new SmartLess.

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

• 0:00Sean Hayes?

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• 1:59Sean Hayes?

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• 2:44Jason Bateman?

  How many cold opens are we gonna be doing?

• 2:46Will Arnett?

  We're doing one right now.

• 2:47Jason Bateman?

  We're doing one? Oh, well, okay, well, let's start with the first one.

• 2:50Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 2:51Jason Bateman?

  And I basically, the big question is, listener, how you doing? Oh, God. How you feeling out there, listener? Hey, just turn this up nice and loud. Let us enter your ear hole, because we're gonna fill it full of...

• 3:07Will Arnett?

  Welcome to Smartless.

• 3:08Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 3:27Jason Bateman?

  Will, are you ready? Fuck.

• 3:29Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I've been ready for fucking 20 minutes, AWAD.

• 3:32Jason Bateman?

  I mean, Will had some real technical difficulties.

• 3:35Will Arnett?

  Sean was busy doing the Trader Joe's lobster bisque pasta. He loves that trend. He's on, he's all over TikTok doing the lobster bisque pasta trend.

• 3:44Jason Bateman?

  Sean, do you do your own grocery shopping?

• 3:49Sean Hayes?

  I don't, I, yeah, sometimes I do, yeah.

• 3:53Jason Bateman?

  Well...

• 3:54Sean Hayes?

  What was the pause for?

• 3:55Jason Bateman?

  Can you go deeper on the pausing?

• 3:56Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 3:59Sean Hayes?

  Well, cause a lot of times Scotty, thank you Scotty, just made me some tea. Look at that.

• 4:04Jason Bateman?

  Can he take the rest of the afternoon off?

• 4:06Will Arnett?

  And by tea, do you mean chili?

• 4:09Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, a cup of chili. No, I do. I go, I go to the grocery store. Scotty, do we go to the grocery store? Help me. Yeah, sometimes. Yeah, we go to the grocery.

• 4:20Will Arnett?

  I'm sorry, can we just pause on that for one second? Can we pause on the Scotty, do we go to the grocery store sometimes?

• 4:26Sean Hayes?

  We do sometimes. Sometimes, but here's the thing.

• 4:28Will Arnett?

  Are you in a blackout?

• 4:30Sean Hayes?

  I only like to go when I know exactly what it is I need. And then like years ago, it's so funny you said this because last night I was talking about this. Years ago, I thought it was great.

• 4:38Will Arnett?

  Way to go JB. Here we go. It's a great story.

• 4:40Jason Bateman?

  He does seem like he's really fired. He's filled the whole gas tank ready for this one.

• 4:45Will Arnett?

  Yeah, get into it. Go ahead. Go back to, take us back to years ago.

• 4:48Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, we, I had this idea for this app, which was, I was gonna like partner with all of these grocery stores. And, and when you walk into the grocery store, your phone recognizes your location. And then it gives you a map of that grocery store and you put in what exactly you're looking for. So you're not in there for an hour just looking for the one item.

• 5:06Jason Bateman?

  Some people just fill a post-it.

• 5:07Will Arnett?

  So instead of looking at the signs above, you just look at your phone.

• 5:10Sean Hayes?

  That's right. And, and then somebody thought of it and somebody, it's already, somebody's doing it.

• 5:14Jason Bateman?

  And they're bankrupt already.

• 5:17Will Arnett?

  I went to, I remember one time being in Germany and seeing these stores, they had these food stores where you go in. True story. And they'd have like set up in different areas of the store. You know, examples of prepared meals, like a beautiful, like a pasta, like a chicken or whatever. And then all the way around that item, and they would switch them up every day. They'd have all the necessary ingredients you need to buy for the, from the store, just to make that at home. Pretty good. You don't like that?

• 5:44Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you know, you know what, something, you know, something I would, I would do that. I would buy that.

• 5:47Jason Bateman?

  You know what, you know, you know what else they do at supermarkets is they've got rows and rows and rows of ingredients that you could buy to build.

• 5:56Will Arnett?

  But this is giving you, this is, this is kind of eliminating the like, oh, what do I need? I need to go in eight aisles. No, no, no. All of it's right there.

• 6:02Sean Hayes?

  But I can't wait for this answer. I can't wait for this answer.

• 6:05Will Arnett?

  Jason, by the way, standing in front of his huge glass house, lobbing stones.

• 6:13Jason Bateman?

  Let me tell you something, I actually really enjoy the market. And when I go, it's expensive. Cause I will, I'll take three hours and I'll just go aisle to aisle.

• 6:22Sean Hayes?

  Last time.

• 6:22Jason Bateman?

  Up and then down, and then up and then, this was eighty-seven, eighty-eight.

• 6:29Sean Hayes?

  We're talking very recent.

• 6:30Jason Bateman?

  Sometimes I need a follow cart, you know, because the front one gets too filled. Lettuce and romaine lettuce and butter lettuce and nuts. This was in the day where I'd get, I'd get everything. You know, cause I, I grew up in a house that was very, very sort of quote, healthy. You know, so there wasn't any garbage in the house. And so, once I moved out, I bought all the garbage. I mean, the snacks, the sodas, the cereals.

• 6:53Sean Hayes?

  It's almost like when you get older and you're on your own, it's, something feels good about not having to ask permission to get eaten whatever you want.

• 7:00Jason Bateman?

  Well, let's be clear, Sean, I grew out of it in about two years. And, and I've been taking care of my body ever since. You're, you're what, sixty-two, sixty-three now? And you're still buying Fruit Loops?

• 7:11Sean Hayes?

  No, I, I will have something like that on occasion. I'm trying to, now I'm trying to find balance for the first time ever.

• 7:18Jason Bateman?

  Are you still off sugar? You were off sugar a couple of weeks ago.

• 7:20Sean Hayes?

  Not entirely, but, but I didn't realize my favorite ice cream had a hundred grams of sugar in a pint.

• 7:25Jason Bateman?

  Didn't realize that, huh? What do you think, you think ice cream is just unicorn farts and, and cream?

• 7:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I didn't know they could, they could manufacture unicorn farts.

• 7:37Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's cream and sugar, full stop.

• 7:40Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. Uh, what kind of dad joke do I have for you? This might have been, I'd love to just to transition into our guest.

• 7:46Jason Bateman?

  This is a new, this is just a new segment.

• 7:49Sean Hayes?

  Because I don't know, I may have said this before.

• 7:51Jason Bateman?

  You created your own segment here.

• 7:53Sean Hayes?

  I may have said this before, so please forgive me if I told you this one wrong. But I asked my brother to pass me the travel pamphlet this morning.

• 8:00Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 8:00Sean Hayes?

  And he said, "Bro, sure."

• 8:07Jason Bateman?

  Oh, I gotta giggle. I gotta giggle.

• 8:10Will Arnett?

  JB really likes that one.

• 8:13Will Arnett?

  JB really likes that one.

• 8:16Jason Bateman?

  That one makes me real happy. It settles me. It's good that it settles me because I'm really nervous about this next guest. You know, this is a...

• 8:25Will Arnett?

  Is that why you wear a nice shirt?

• 8:27Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, exactly. I don't think you've ever seen me in a button up on this show.

• 8:34Sean Hayes?

  Really nice.

• 8:34Jason Bateman?

  So today's guest, this is someone I've wanted to meet for a very long time. She first hit my radar, oh no, wait, that's...

• 8:44Sean Hayes?

  That's my, that's my wife.

• 8:45Jason Bateman?

  That's the last guest.

• 8:47Sean Hayes?

  That's Amanda.

• 8:49Will Arnett?

  Hey, God, can you imagine how much shit you'd throw at me if you were, if I came this unprepared? And by the way, what a slight to your guest.

• 8:58Jason Bateman?

  I'm wearing a nice shirt, though.

• 8:59Will Arnett?

  What a side swipe to your guest.

• 9:00Jason Bateman?

  Oh, no, here we go, here we go, here we go.

• 9:02Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's good. What if it started exactly the same?

• 9:05Will Arnett?

  I would have gone already. If I were your guest, I would have walked.

• 9:08Jason Bateman?

  We've got a real special treat today. Dash, I think. Can't wait to meet her. This is someone who I've been watching from afar, very, very curious about.

• 9:16Sean Hayes?

  I already know who it is.

• 9:18Will Arnett?

  Stalking.

• 9:18Jason Bateman?

  She's a true chameleon. She started acting at 15 and now barely, barely 30. She's already won multiple Emmys, countless nominations, and seems positioned for a long and fruitful career. How did this Hebrew-speaking beauty from the Bronx make it all the way out to Hollywood and into our hearts?

• 9:34Sean Hayes?

  We're gonna find out.

• 9:35Jason Bateman?

  Guys, let's find out. This is Miss Julia Garner. Did I say that correctly? Did I pronounce that right?

• 9:41Sean Hayes?

  You threw me with "I can't wait to meet her."

• 9:44Jason Bateman?

  Oh, right. I'm real crafty like that.

• 9:46Will Arnett?

  Watching from afar.

• 9:47Jason Bateman?

  We can unblock the camera now, my sweet love?

• 9:50Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. Oh, there you are.

• 9:52Jason Bateman?

  Hi.

• 9:54Sean Hayes?

  Hi, Julia.

• 9:55Jason Bateman?

  Oh, you look just like on the TV shows. Oh, my God. It's so nice to meet you, Jason. You too. I've, like, heard so much about you. No southern accent, so that was just a put on from the-

• 10:07Will Arnett?

  Just for our, so that our listener knows, Julia starred in, was arguably the best part of Ozark-

• 10:15Jason Bateman?

  There's no argument there.

• 10:17Will Arnett?

  For the entire, you're right. For years and years, and that's how you and JB met, I presume, was on Ozark, the award-winning show brought to you by our very own JB and starring the wonderful Julia Garner. Julia, welcome to Smarless.

• 10:31Speaker 03

  And Jason, Jason starring-

• 10:32Sean Hayes?

  Brought to you by our friend Ted Sarandos, that's who brought it.

• 10:36Will Arnett?

  Oh my god.

• 10:37Speaker 03

  Shout out to Ted.

• 10:37Will Arnett?

  Hucker up.

• 10:38Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I love you Teddy.

• 10:41Speaker 03

  Love you.

• 10:42Sean Hayes?

  Teddy, you're the best.

• 10:42Will Arnett?

  Gross, disgusting, go ahead.

• 10:45Sean Hayes?

  You know what though, Julia, first of all, it's so nice to meet you.

• 10:47Speaker 03

  So nice to meet you.

• 10:49Sean Hayes?

  Um, I, Jason was joking because I know every interview I've ever given over the many, many years of Ozark was about that accent, but I was truly blown away, because I'd never seen you before, because I'm an idiot.

• 11:01Speaker 03

  A lot of people.

• 11:02Sean Hayes?

  And my first exposure, my first exposure to you was Ozark, and then when I saw you on your first talk show, I was like, oh wait, what? Like, it was, it was so believable, you were completely, do you love playing characters like that?

• 11:14Will Arnett?

  He's new to acting, he's really blown away by the concept of it. It's so fun, right Sean?

• 11:19Sean Hayes?

  When you pretend to be someone else, is it neat?

• 11:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, I guess, I mean-

• 11:26Will Arnett?

  He thought Ozark was a documentary, sorry.

• 11:30Speaker 03

  He just, Jason just brought a whole film crew to Ozark.

• 11:35Sean Hayes?

  Disturbed you and your brothers.

• 11:36Speaker 03

  Just did like Werner Herzog style, basically.

• 11:39Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I don't think I ever asked you, was it, it would have been fun for me, it would be fun one day to play and do some big southern accent.

• 11:49Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, why don't you do it?

• 11:49Jason Bateman?

  Like, was it fun to do that?

• 11:51Will Arnett?

  When, oh, hang on, keep going, who are we meeting?

• 11:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, keep going.

• 11:55Sean Hayes?

  Who's this?

• 11:56Will Arnett?

  Introduce us to this character.

• 11:59Jason Bateman?

  Fire up the truck. Yeah, um, did you, was it fun to play, to use the accent all the time?

• 12:06Speaker 03

  Did I use it, like, off camera when we weren't working together?

• 12:10Jason Bateman?

  No, no, no, when you were doing it, when you were playing the Ruth Langmore gal there.

• 12:15Sean Hayes?

  Was it, was it, was it work, or did you enjoy actually doing that? Because you have to be conscious of it.

• 12:22Speaker 03

  It was both, but I feel like, um-

• 12:27Speaker 03

  If you want anything to be good, it takes a lot of work.

• 12:31Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah. I am writing this down as you're talking.

• 12:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, but also it's like, also if you want, you know, I'm always constantly like chasing that flow state. So, and that takes a lot of work in a way.

• 12:43Jason Bateman?

  The flow state is.

• 12:44Speaker 03

  To just kind of get there.

• 12:45Jason Bateman?

  What is that? That is, that is after work?

• 12:47Speaker 03

  Like when you're acting.

• 12:48Jason Bateman?

  Right. So, well, I don't know. I don't know the terms.

• 12:51Speaker 03

  Remember when you directed me?

• 12:53Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, but the flow, but the flow happens, does the flow happen?

• 12:57Speaker 03

  He doesn't remember at all.

• 12:58Jason Bateman?

  After massive preparation, one can reach a flow state because you've properly prepared?

• 13:04Speaker 03

  Yes, yes. So I like prepare, I prepare, prepare, and then um, once I, you know, get to your set, I just throw it all away.

• 13:14Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you don't have to think about it.

• 13:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't think about it.

• 13:18Will Arnett?

  He doesn't take you out of that flow state? When you see his face, it doesn't like go like?

• 13:21Speaker 03

  No, you know what? I love working with Jason because he kind of, I love working with Jason because he relaxes everybody. Like, he makes it fun. Cause sometimes when, you know, especially when I was like a new actor, um, I, I would always get super tense and it felt like, almost like life or death. And then Jason would do something ridiculous to kind of ease it. And I loved it. And I think that's so important in my opinion. I love it.

• 13:50Jason Bateman?

  I'm the best.

• 13:50Speaker 03

  You are the best. You really are. I say this to everybody, truly.

• 13:53Sean Hayes?

  Julie, I love that. Me too. Never been directed by him.

• 13:56Will Arnett?

  The, Jay. Sarandos is the best.

• 13:59Sean Hayes?

  That Sarandos is also the best. Yeah.

• 14:01Will Arnett?

  Let me just say that.

• 14:02Sean Hayes?

  No, no.

• 14:03Jason Bateman?

  But Jay, why don't you, you never ever have, by the way, neither of you will, you don't either, never show any signs of anxiety while me and Julia are walking around with like, we're nervous about showing up and doing a good job.

• 14:14Sean Hayes?

  You should look at my bowel movements.

• 14:16Will Arnett?

  Would you? God, can we have one episode where we don't talk about bowel movements?

• 14:23Will Arnett?

  This is, what are you talking about? Sean, you're very, you're not.

• 14:27Sean Hayes?

  No, I mean, I get nervous, like you just said, Julia, about right before you start and is the character that I worked on, is it gonna be any good? And blah, blah, blah, you know? And then, once you get, but I just don't feel that from you guys.

• 14:39Will Arnett?

  Well, you know, sort of in that, in that vein, Julia, so you do, you're, you're gonna do Ozark. You, obviously, you meet Mr. Bateman.

• 14:45Sean Hayes?

  Thank you.

• 14:46Will Arnett?

  As he makes you, I heard that he made you call him. And so, you're, you're, you go through the process of, of getting that, that gig. And you show up day one on set, and you know that you're playing this southern character. Were you nervous at all about taking that first swing? That first take of that first scene?

• 15:05Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 15:06Will Arnett?

  Or had, or had you guys prepped enough and he knew?

• 15:09Speaker 03

  No, I was so nervous because also, first of all, I, I thought that I wasn't gonna get Ozark. When I auditioned for it.

• 15:17Will Arnett?

  Well, his face just sagged, so he's always got a mean look on his face.

• 15:20Speaker 03

  No, it wasn't even, I, I actually felt, the first audition. Look at his nose getting up, he's like, mm-hmm.

• 15:28Will Arnett?

  He thinks he's smiling. I'm thrilled.

• 15:31Sean Hayes?

  He has to turn his whole head up, smiling.

• 15:34Speaker 03

  I can see a booger right there. No, but it was, it was kind of crazy because the first audition, I thought, you know, it was just like a tiny, tiny casting room in New York, paper-thin walls. And I'm like, hearing the other actors read the lines and I'm like, oh my god. There's, there, yeah, and I'm like, wow, that killed it. And they're like, that was amazing, that was fantastic. And then I had to go in next.

• 16:02Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 16:02Speaker 03

  And I did it once. And I remember calling my mother and I was like, I'm not, I don't think I'm, I'm just gonna move on. And then, I wanna say like 10 days later, there was a callback. And Jason was in that callback. And I remember the, I remember he.

• 16:22Sean Hayes?

  Slower.

• 16:23Speaker 03

  He kept, no, I'm trying, no, I'm just, I'm trying.

• 16:27Will Arnett?

  She's trying to make up a story that.

• 16:28Speaker 03

  You know what I remember? I remember he was, he was very, he was, he gave very good, he gave amazing, like, really interesting direction. But also, he was very sweet. And then he started talking about like local TV at the end of the audition. You, local news. You were saying, what are you gonna do later? I was like, I don't know, watch some TV? And he's like, what are you gonna watch? Local news?

• 16:50Jason Bateman?

  Right, isn't he great?

• 16:51Sean Hayes?

  That is funny.

• 16:52Speaker 03

  That's literally the first thing.

• 16:53Sean Hayes?

  That is funny.

• 16:54Speaker 03

  I was like, that guy's an oddball, but I like him. And I was like, but also, how does he know that I kind of like, love secretly local news? He saw me, like, immediately.

• 17:06Sean Hayes?

  Yes.

• 17:06Jason Bateman?

  Did I, did I, did I say, and I didn't, we didn't, I didn't say, hey, high five, you got the job in the room, did I?

• 17:13Speaker 03

  No, no, and Chris was in the room, and I, I just remember feeling like, still unsure. But I do remember with the first, it was like a mock scene, it wasn't even in the script. But I do remember seeing-

• 17:29Jason Bateman?

  Did I read with you?

• 17:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, you read with me.

• 17:31Jason Bateman?

  I did.

• 17:32Speaker 03

  And I remember the first, like, the first scene that I saw, I was like, this, this dialogue's either gonna work if this person talks really fast, or really slow. There's like, no, there was no in-between. That was always very clear in the dialogue, I feel like.

• 17:50Jason Bateman?

  And you went with the fast?

• 17:51Speaker 03

  Depending on her mood.

• 17:53Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. And then, what about the accent? Was that something that the, that Alexa Fogel, sort of our casting director, did she give you a, sort of a hint, a tip on that? Like, you should speak in it? Or is that just something you did on your own?

• 18:08Speaker 03

  No, by the way, we love Alexa Fogel. Shout out to Alexa Fogel.

• 18:11Jason Bateman?

  Shout out to Alexa Fogel.

• 18:12Speaker 03

  Yes, like, grateful for Alexa.

• 18:14Jason Bateman?

  She loves that Will Arnett.

• 18:15Will Arnett?

  I've known her many years.

• 18:17Speaker 03

  Yeah. No, it was kind of one of those things that I just assumed, because it was Missouri, that there was gonna be an accent.

• 18:26Will Arnett?

  Missoura.

• 18:27Speaker 03

  And that, and that, and that's also why, that's also why I didn't feel like, the first audition, nobody was doing that accent. And then I didn't, I couldn't remember my lines with my regular speaking voice, so I started freaking out. That's why I didn't think I was gonna get the job.

• 18:44Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow.

• 18:45Sean Hayes?

  Wow.

• 18:45Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 18:46Will Arnett?

  Did you, you know, I will say, it reminded me of, did you ever know people, I knew a few actors over the years, especially like in the 90s, being in New York and sometimes coming out here. And you'd often, over a course of years, see like the same kind of people who are kind of your age up for the similar jobs and you'd see them over and you'd get to know them from waiting rooms and stuff around town. Yeah. And that's how I had the mis- it's like I had the misfortune of originally meeting Thoreau over the years was in waiting rooms, right?

• 19:13Speaker 03

  There's always an actor in a waiting room, like, yeah.

• 19:16Will Arnett?

  But there were those, but you know those actors who would come out, I knew a couple and they thought they were being funny and they'd come out and they'd go like, "Well, I got it." Like that was their bit all the time was like, "I got it, nobody else." And like at a certain point, you're like, "Hey, man, just stay in your lane."

• 19:33Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 19:33Will Arnett?

  Stay away from me.

• 19:34Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, keep it inside.

• 19:35Will Arnett?

  I want to work too.

• 19:36Jason Bateman?

  Well, and then cut to you walking out of the Arrested Development audition and everyone and all the executives following you out saying, "All right, we got it, we got our guy," as you guys all walked past the remaining guys that were supposed to go in and audition for your part.

• 19:51Will Arnett?

  Why do they do that? Which, which if you remember, JB, at the time, I said to Mitch, I said, "Hey, let's keep it down." It was part of the story because one of the people was out there in the room who didn't get it and I felt I knew what that feeling was.

• 20:02Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. Well, we can say who that is because he did just fine. Rainn Wilson went on to get The Office a couple of weeks later.

• 20:08Will Arnett?

  Yeah, he would have beat me at that gig. So like he, you know what I mean? Let's just be clear about that. Anyway, so would that, that kind of like actor politics is always weird.

• 20:19Speaker 03

  Well, it's funny and I feel like that's slowly disappearing. Like I feel like I was kind of the-

• 20:24Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, because everyone's doing their auditions from home now.

• 20:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, like I was, I feel like I was kind of the la- the very, very last of, like there's so many actors that are working today that I've met in audition rooms when I was like 16, 17 years old. And then like there would be like a hangout after, after, like you're like, "Oh yeah, do you like, want to hang out?" Yeah, like it was just like a little more, there was like, it's spontaneous a little more now, it's just-

• 20:47Jason Bateman?

  Cameroning, yeah.

• 20:47Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:48Jason Bateman?

  But you were also, you're, but you're, you're also, you're, you were a great hanger outer on Ozark, right? You guys, you always went out-

• 20:56Speaker 03

  I don't even know what that's mean.

• 20:57Jason Bateman?

  Well, but because you always, I would always hear the next morning at work, like you guys would all talk about the night you guys had out. You'd go out with all the other actors and you guys would all have a lot of fun.

• 21:05Speaker 03

  I was also 22 when I started.

• 21:07Jason Bateman?

  They had a real life down there, you know?

• 21:08Will Arnett?

  Where were you, JB?

• 21:09Jason Bateman?

  Granddad went home, put on the comfy socks and PJs and watched Rachel Maddow and learned my lines and went to bed. Yeah, still doing the same thing today. Yeah.

• 21:20Will Arnett?

  It's all gonna be over. No regrets. What have you done? Nothing.

• 21:26Jason Bateman?

  I've got one tooth left in my mouth.

• 21:28Will Arnett?

  I've had no life experience.

• 21:31Jason Bateman?

  But I'm thin.

• 21:38Sean Hayes?

  We'll be right back.

• 21:42Sean Hayes?

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• 25:24Jason Bateman?

  And now, back to the show.

• 25:27Sean Hayes?

  We'll get off, I was like, really, you know, I'm sure after this, I could talk about it forever, I love the show.

• 25:31Jason Bateman?

  No, shut up, you have not seen it.

• 25:33Sean Hayes?

  I love, seen every episode. The, um, was there anything? Because it was like, at times, it was really physical. And I remember Jason telling me that I was like, did you really do all that? He's like, no, there was a stunt double where he gets punched in the face, thrown on the floor, kicked across the room. Did you have anything like that, and did you ever get hurt?

• 25:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, but I'm also like, like, my, you know. Yeah, but I also don't sometimes carry myself like one, so that's how I get hurt.

• 26:02Sean Hayes?

  Oh, okay.

• 26:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, so I'm like, oh, yeah, I'll be fine.

• 26:05Jason Bateman?

  Have you learned how to drive since the show?

• 26:08Sean Hayes?

  You didn't know how to drive?

• 26:09Jason Bateman?

  This woman, I mean, you ask her to just drive 10 feet, just hit the mark.

• 26:16Speaker 03

  I'm gonna learn how to drive, I promise. And you're gonna be the first person that I'm gonna call.

• 26:21Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I'm not getting in the car. I will not get in the car till you give me at least a year under your belt.

• 26:26Sean Hayes?

  Wait, Julia, do you drive now or you still don't drive?

• 26:29Speaker 03

  No, cuz it's just, I've been-

• 26:31Sean Hayes?

  Where do you live?

• 26:32Jason Bateman?

  Los Angeles.

• 26:33Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 26:34Jason Bateman?

  Okay, well, you honestly still don't drive?

• 26:37Speaker 03

  No, and then, and then whenever I'm, I'm in the process of learning how to drive, then I have to leave town. For real, like, it's like always like that. So as soon as like I wanna, you know, work, I just, you know, learn how, try to learn how to drive and then, and then I'll-

• 26:51Jason Bateman?

  So how do you get around? You're Uber all the time or does Mark drive you around?

• 26:56Speaker 03

  Both.

• 26:56Jason Bateman?

  Both.

• 26:57Speaker 03

  Friends. I, I can't, you know what?

• 26:58Will Arnett?

  My friends want to Uber all the time.

• 27:01Speaker 03

  I'm like a passenger princess.

• 27:04Jason Bateman?

  You are?

• 27:04Speaker 03

  That's what the kids say today. Totally. By the way, even if I learn how to drive, I still love to be driven. I'm not gonna lie. Like, I love it.

• 27:11Jason Bateman?

  Call me if you ever need a ride. I like, I do like to drive.

• 27:13Sean Hayes?

  All right, wait, so, wait a minute, Julia, wait, I wanna stand this driving thing just for, just two seconds.

• 27:17Jason Bateman?

  Okay, okay, Sean.

• 27:19Sean Hayes?

  So, wait, you have your friends drive you or Mark, I'm guessing Mark is your boyfriend or husband?

• 27:23Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I could ask you 70 million questions about this.

• 27:27Sean Hayes?

  And have you ever way mode?

• 27:28Speaker 03

  Is that the thing that's-

• 27:30Sean Hayes?

  Self-driving car?

• 27:31Speaker 03

  That scares me. I don't like that.

• 27:33Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 27:33Speaker 03

  I've done that before with my friend cuz he also doesn't drive cuz he's from the UK. And that scares me. That's creepy.

• 27:41Jason Bateman?

  Sean's a big advocate.

• 27:42Sean Hayes?

  Well, no, I mean, I, I think it's where the future's gonna, I think ultimately like 20, 30 years-

• 27:47Jason Bateman?

  Is that where we're going, driverless cars? Prognosticator, yeah.

• 27:52Will Arnett?

  Or do you think AI is gonna have an impact?

• 27:54Jason Bateman?

  Wait, what's AI?

• 27:55Will Arnett?

  What's gonna be popular? Computers?

• 27:58Jason Bateman?

  What else, Sean?

• 28:00Will Arnett?

  I think food's really gonna catch on.

• 28:02Jason Bateman?

  Any more hot takes?

• 28:05Jason Bateman?

  Julia, I've got a question for you. Sean, quiet, please. So you booked Martha Marcy May Marlene?

• 28:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 28:11Jason Bateman?

  Hold for applause. At 16, was this the first time that you really felt acting was a viable career path, Julia?

• 28:22Jason Bateman?

  Julia, please answer the question.

• 28:23Speaker 03

  Please answer the question.

• 28:26Speaker 03

  It was still like a test because I was so young. I was 16.

• 28:30Jason Bateman?

  But that was like the first biggie, right?

• 28:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, that was the first job. And I didn't even really know, because this was 2010. And so Sundance was not what it is today. It wasn't, like, it was still felt kind of indie in that way. There was, like, I think like swag bag was like a thing for like two, it was like, it was just new. So it wasn't commercialized in a way. So I didn't really know what that, anything was. So it felt more like a test, I guess, in a way. But I just really loved it. I just loved meeting people and...

• 29:08Jason Bateman?

  And that film kind of took off and you started to get some notoriety and the phone started ringing just a little bit and like, was that kind of exciting?

• 29:14Will Arnett?

  Notoriety was it bad news? What happened? Did you do something bad?

• 29:17Jason Bateman?

  Could you, could you kind of see the future a little bit? Did you, did you, did you, did you have the courage to kind of dream a little bit there? Or was it still a little distant?

• 29:26Speaker 03

  I, well, I've always been a big dreamer, but it felt, but I never thought that my life would end up like this. Like, I never thought that this was, I like, I always loved movies. I, I grew up like watching Turner Classic Movies and I always loved, loved films. But there was still something that felt very far, even though I grew up in New York and I grew up around actors and going to the theater and, but there's something that felt very far because it wasn't, I didn't know it was like a real profession, like, it didn't feel real.

• 29:59Jason Bateman?

  Right. So then, but you, so then even as sort of some momentum started to gain there. So you're 16, you're approaching the end of what would be the high school years and the possibility to maybe go to college and study another career. So since you weren't really committed to, you weren't allowing yourself to feel super positive about a career in the business, were you keeping your other irons hot as far as other occupations? Other industries?

• 30:24Speaker 03

  No, because I was so bad at everything else and I seem...

• 30:27Jason Bateman?

  You didn't, you were all in. You didn't even, you didn't go to college?

• 30:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, I, no, and I was like, oh, well... I'm getting a good response with this, so I must be okay with it. Um, cause I'm so bad at everything else.

• 30:40Will Arnett?

  You know what, you know what's funny about that is that we, that's a common, that, that's, that answer comes up for a lot. And it goes for the three of us too. Right?

• 30:48Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, we can't.

• 30:48Will Arnett?

  And when I find, I'm sort of coming to the conclusion that actors are just a bunch of people who are bad at everything else.

• 30:55Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:57Jason Bateman?

  Right. It's true. Let's pretend, let's get a job where we can pretend to be good at stuff.

• 31:02Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it's kind of true.

• 31:04Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that's so true.

• 31:05Speaker 03

  I didn't do, I don't, I don't do well when I feel like there's like, has to be rules in a way. Like I don't, I, I, you know, I, I like.

• 31:14Jason Bateman?

  That there's a right way to do something and a wrong way to do something.

• 31:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, like I like running, I like the feeling of like, running around and kind of being free, as corny as that sounds, but.

• 31:22Jason Bateman?

  Right, right, right, right.

• 31:23Will Arnett?

  Sounds like you're advocating for anarchy.

• 31:25Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, no, she is. She's a rule breaker.

• 31:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm a rule breaker.

• 31:29Jason Bateman?

  I didn't know about this.

• 31:30Will Arnett?

  I'm not against it.

• 31:30Jason Bateman?

  Tell me what, tell me about, what, what is this David Chase thing that Wikipedia is talking about here?

• 31:36Speaker 03

  Oh, so there's actually, speaking of, so that I, that was my second movie.

• 31:43Jason Bateman?

  This is Not Fade Away?

• 31:45Speaker 03

  Not Fade Away. And there, this is a crazy story. So my first time going to LA, I was, was I, I just turned 17. It was like a month after I turned 17. And I only remember this because it was like in March and all the purple, you know, trees. I'd never seen anything like that coming from New York.

• 32:04Jason Bateman?

  Chakorandas, yeah.

• 32:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 32:05Will Arnett?

  Chakorandas.

• 32:06Jason Bateman?

  Chakoranda.

• 32:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, and I remember being.

• 32:09Jason Bateman?

  And were you alone at 17 or did you come out with mom?

• 32:11Speaker 03

  No, I came out with mom, um, and, and my acting coach.

• 32:17Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yeah?

• 32:18Speaker 03

  You know, and.

• 32:18Jason Bateman?

  Did you stay at the Oakwoods?

• 32:20Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 32:20Will Arnett?

  You did?

• 32:21Jason Bateman?

  Did you really?

• 32:21Speaker 03

  Nearby, yeah. And, and we didn't know where anything was. This was like GPS was new, so it was like recalculating. It was like all the time. It was so crazy and.

• 32:34Jason Bateman?

  Sounds like mom was as gifted as you are behind the wheel?

• 32:37Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 32:38Jason Bateman?

  Recalculating.

• 32:39Speaker 03

  Yes, recalculating, exactly. But it was one of those things that I had. Crazy like callbacks, auditions, like every single day while I was doing that one day of shoot for the David Chase project that he, he basically like wrote that part for me because I auditioned for a different part.

• 32:58Jason Bateman?

  Okay.

• 32:59Speaker 03

  And I didn't get, um, I didn't get, uh, James Gadolfini's daughter. So he wrote, he was like, I wrote a part for you. And it was like in this dream sequence.

• 33:07Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 33:08Speaker 03

  So that was my first time in LA. And on the plane, I got the worst eye infection on my way there. I had green pus coming out of my eye, like green goo. It was terrible. And I had all these auditions booked, all these callbacks. Like sometimes these callbacks, I'm looking at it, I'm like, where, where, where are these meetings now? Like, I'm like, these meetings were crazy. And I had-

• 33:35Jason Bateman?

  Oh, you poor thing. You must've been just a nervous wreck that you're gonna show up with this pink eye.

• 33:40Speaker 03

  So this, so this callback, this callback that I had, so there was all these callbacks and auditions and meetings with this like, and it wasn't, you know, contagious. So I went to a doctor and I'm like, yeah, you're fine, but it just looks, it's literally an eyesore. Um, and I got this phone call. Well, I had a chemistry read with Claridane. So I had to like go in with an eye infection with Claridane. And I had to like apologize, basically explain my eye.

• 34:10Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 34:11Speaker 03

  Which was horrific.

• 34:12Jason Bateman?

  Don't look at this one. Look at this one.

• 34:13Will Arnett?

  Your so-called eye.

• 34:15Speaker 03

  And then-

• 34:16Jason Bateman?

  Not well. That is great.

• 34:17Speaker 03

  And then in the middle of all these meetings, going back and forth, didn't know where I was going, never been to LA, I got, um, a call from my manager and like a few weeks before I went out, it was in New York, I went on this audition for an untitled Paul Thomas Anderson film.

• 34:38Jason Bateman?

  Mm-hmm.

• 34:39Speaker 03

  Is there a phone ringing? I can't-

• 34:41Jason Bateman?

  No.

• 34:42Will Arnett?

  That's the name of the film?

• 34:43Speaker 03

  I don't know what's going on.

• 34:45Will Arnett?

  Sorry. I didn't see that one.

• 34:47Speaker 03

  Yeah. And, um-

• 34:49Will Arnett?

  By the way, it would be a great title for a Paul Thomas Anderson-

• 34:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, I know.

• 34:52Will Arnett?

  Is there a phone ringing?

• 34:53Jason Bateman?

  There's a phone ringing.

• 34:53Speaker 03

  Exactly. No, so it was, it was an untitled Paul Thomas Anderson film. I was 16 and they called in, they're like, he wants to meet with you. Um, so I had that and then I it turned out to be for the masters.

• 35:09Will Arnett?

  Oh, wow.

• 35:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, and but I had this eye infection. I had this crazy chemistry read and yeah, but that was my first time in L.A. And then also who I met that week was Fred Ruse. I was seventeen years old. It was like one of, you know,

• 35:27Will Arnett?

  Yeah, sure.

• 35:27Speaker 03

  Producer of The Godfather.

• 35:28Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 35:30Speaker 03

  But then by then I met him. It was like a Friday in my eye, like calm down. But during that time, I also did not fade away. Just to give you, you know, I'm giving you the bullet points.

• 35:39Will Arnett?

  What were you meeting with Fred Ruse about?

• 35:41Speaker 03

  Just a general meeting, I guess. I don't know.

• 35:43Will Arnett?

  Did he make you an offer you couldn't refuse or?

• 35:46Jason Bateman?

  Hell.

• 35:46Speaker 03

  No, he just, I met, I just met with him.

• 35:49Will Arnett?

  I just, okay, I just thought maybe.

• 35:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 35:51Jason Bateman?

  So jump, jump from that to.

• 35:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, but that was my first time in L.A. Like crazy.

• 35:56Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 35:57Jason Bateman?

  So if, if you will, make the, make a big, huge leap now from, you know, your sort of nascent stage there and now you've just won your first Emmy of three consecutive Emmys, by the way.

• 36:08Will Arnett?

  Unbelievable.

• 36:09Jason Bateman?

  What did that feel? So you've just won an Emmy.

• 36:12Will Arnett?

  What a streak.

• 36:13Jason Bateman?

  What a streak.

• 36:14Will Arnett?

  Man beaten three years in a row.

• 36:19Jason Bateman?

  What was, what, what, what was that like? Did, personally and professionally, was there a big sea change? Or was it sort of a gradual thing? Or, sorry, I'm recalling that. Here's the question. Did the next day after winning an Emmy feel like you thought it would when you allowed yourself to dream back from a little kid?

• 36:38Will Arnett?

  Very good, very good.

• 36:41Speaker 03

  Well, um, first of all, Jason, I just want to say like the, it's, you know, it was such a dream working with you this whole time or that whole time of the, just the, and what I mean is like the process, it really, the next day.

• 37:01Speaker 03

  It was not depressing, it was not depressing, but it it made you look at how important the process is and the experience rather than the result.

• 37:12Jason Bateman?

  That's right.

• 37:12Speaker 03

  In a way.

• 37:13Jason Bateman?

  Amen.

• 37:13Speaker 03

  And.

• 37:14Will Arnett?

  Now what?

• 37:15Speaker 03

  It's a token, in a way. It's like, it's a great, it's an amazing token and it's like an opportunity for things, but then after the opportunity, you're looking for a new, new process.

• 37:26Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, because you kind of feel like you, there's nothing really changed. It's just the next day.

• 37:30Will Arnett?

  Well, in Dwarven Rush and all that stuff is all in the anticipation. It's not in the getting of the thing.

• 37:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, and also your problems, like, you'll have 30 seconds up there. And, and it's great, and then you.

• 37:44Jason Bateman?

  Right back to your life.

• 37:44Speaker 03

  Get off the stage and then you're like, the next day, your problems are still, personally, your problems are still following you. It doesn't change anything.

• 37:51Will Arnett?

  That's why I've never, that's why I've never won an Emmy. That's why.

• 37:55Jason Bateman?

  You just keep, you keep returning. Yeah, no, I want to take myself out of the running. It's not going to change anything.

• 38:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, I know. You know, but it's funny. I think what it resulted to was after that, I was, it, it made me very, um, feel not confident in a complete different way, in a sense, because what it does, well, you know, when you have a win after win after win after win, you kind of put this like pressure where you feel like you have this, people are having this expectation on you.

• 38:26Jason Bateman?

  Right, right.

• 38:27Speaker 03

  But, you know, during the strike, you know, I went to clown school because I didn't know what else to do with my time. And I went to France, but the, and the thing that they, the teacher Philippe Golié, who's amazing, he kept on saying, you know, the.

• 38:43Will Arnett?

  Screw that son of a bitch.

• 38:46Will Arnett?

  He's like. I'll show this guy a thing or two about being a clown. Oh, you like France? Come to Italy.

• 38:54Sean Hayes?

  Sorry, this is a running joke. He's got a real loud mouth. He's a handful in the back of the theater.

• 38:59Will Arnett?

  And he's got a real touchy and sensitive about other Europeans.

• 39:02Speaker 03

  Exactly. But he kept on saying the failure is the friend of the clown, which I love.

• 39:09Sean Hayes?

  Failure is the friend of the clown, yes.

• 39:10Will Arnett?

  Failure is the friend of the clown. I like that.

• 39:12Speaker 03

  And you can't have great art if you don't have some sort of like, you know, humility in a way.

• 39:20Will Arnett?

  Yes.

• 39:20Speaker 03

  You're not gonna...

• 39:21Sean Hayes?

  Please tell me what goes on in clown school?

• 39:24Speaker 03

  Um, well, a lot of things.

• 39:26Sean Hayes?

  Face painting. But I mean, like, you hear that.

• 39:28Will Arnett?

  Are you guys kind of juggling a lot of different things?

• 39:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 39:31Sean Hayes?

  Nice, Will, another nice one.

• 39:32Speaker 03

  Well, actually, I didn't, you know, I didn't, I did get a clown certificate, so you are talking to a certified clown.

• 39:39Will Arnett?

  Was it an oversized shoe?

• 39:41Sean Hayes?

  Or just a red nose?

• 39:42Will Arnett?

  Did it fold?

• 39:43Speaker 03

  It was a red nose. And he assigned me, he took one look at me and he was like, "You're the witch." He assigned me to be a witch. I don't know, maybe he gave him like witch energy.

• 39:55Sean Hayes?

  The witch with the one cigarette.

• 39:57Speaker 03

  No, but he was really brilliant.

• 39:59Sean Hayes?

  Do you do like, because I hear, and I'm an idiot, so I hear, I went to clown school and I do, I do everything that Jason and Will are joking about. Like, I think about like, oh, well, you put the paint, is it that? You paint your face and you put on like...

• 40:09Speaker 03

  No, no, it's...

• 40:11Will Arnett?

  It's old school, like European clown shit.

• 40:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's old school, you're, yeah, and like...

• 40:15Will Arnett?

  It's kind of depressing.

• 40:16Sean Hayes?

  Oh, really?

• 40:17Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's like he puts you on stage and then you go behind a curtain and then they cue the music and you walk around like in a clown circle. And then you just, and then the music stops and you just have to do whatever comes to your mind and make people laugh. And if you don't make people laugh, he kicks you off the stage.

• 40:34Sean Hayes?

  Oh, my God, wow. So you have to really kind of just completely, almost humiliate yourself, just basically pull your pants down metaphorically, right? And just like be a fool.

• 40:43Speaker 03

  Be a fool. So I also... I just felt this, the first, you know, two days, I was like, what the fuck am I doing? Why did I do this? Like, what is wrong with me?

• 40:54Will Arnett?

  I love you, dude.

• 40:55Speaker 03

  I'm like, I'm not even in Paris. Like, I'm in this town, which, by the way, the town that I was staying in, I was like, why is this energy so crazy? And there's like the biggest mental asylum in France in this town.

• 41:10Will Arnett?

  That's not a coincidence. Slash clown school.

• 41:13Speaker 03

  But of course, like, but again, like, I, of course, like, I also love, like, that's just me. Like, sign me up for like the weirdest experience and I'm like all up for that. But, uh, yeah, no, it was an amazing, it was a 10 out of 10 experience, genuinely, it was amazing.

• 41:30Will Arnett?

  How about that?

• 41:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 41:31Jason Bateman?

  That's awesome. So did, has, has it adjusted your acting at all? Sort of incorporating this fearlessness of humiliation? Although you were always brave about, you never worried about making yourself look foolish or ugly or flawed or something like that?

• 41:46Speaker 03

  No, not, well, no, and I think for me, it was more that, um, I, I just needed to, I have to constantly make myself feel uncomfortable.

• 41:57Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 41:57Speaker 03

  And that's gonna make me feel comfortable.

• 41:59Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 41:59Speaker 03

  As an artist, like, if I feel any sort of comfortability, I don't, like, then something's deeply wrong.

• 42:06Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I totally get it.

• 42:08Speaker 03

  And also, I don't like-

• 42:09Will Arnett?

  What do you mean, you totally get it? You're comfortable beyond me, are you saying?

• 42:12Jason Bateman?

  No, no, I know, the being uncomfortable.

• 42:14Will Arnett?

  You walk around in casual slippers, starting at 10:30 AM. You and one other person live in a 15,000 square foot house, like- Shut the hell up, Sean. Go ahead, guess.

• 42:23Jason Bateman?

  I'm uncomfortable.

• 42:23Will Arnett?

  She's talking about discomfort as a fucking artist, Jesus Christ.

• 42:27Speaker 03

  I'm not talking, listen, I'm, don't get me, I love my sweaters, um, but I just-

• 42:35Jason Bateman?

  There's our bumper sticker.

• 42:38Jason Bateman?

  We'll be right back.

• 42:42Sean Hayes?

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• 45:39Will Arnett?

  Julia, now you're surrounded by musical instruments, and I've been wanting to ask this, are these yours?

• 45:44Speaker 03

  No, these are my husband's. We're setting up a studio here.

• 45:48Sean Hayes?

  She's married to a rock star, you stupid dick.

• 45:50Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 45:51Sean Hayes?

  Really?

• 45:52Speaker 03

  No, I can't play anything.

• 45:53Sean Hayes?

  You're supposed to study up.

• 45:54Will Arnett?

  I didn't know his, I didn't know his.

• 45:57Sean Hayes?

  Is he a singer? I don't know who, forgive me.

• 46:00Speaker 03

  He's Mark Foster, Foster the People.

• 46:03Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wonderful. I didn't know that.

• 46:05Speaker 03

  Now that's a band.

• 46:07Will Arnett?

  Yeah. This is a fantastic band.

• 46:12Sean Hayes?

  That's great. Wait, can I jump ahead? I mean, I'll let Jay drive it in a second, but. Please. Were you, I just remembered, were you supposed to play Madonna at some point? Is that gonna still happen?

• 46:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, that's supposed to still happen.

• 46:27Sean Hayes?

  That's wild.

• 46:28Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:29Sean Hayes?

  What do you think, I mean, how did that come about? And like, were you ever a fan and all that?

• 46:33Speaker 03

  Oh, my God, I was such a fan of Madonna's. You know, I grew up listening to Madonna. It just came about, like, I knew that they were doing a project, making a movie about it, and then I went out to audition. I want, I kind of, that was also another thing that I, I kind of just wanted to see. If I could do it, cuz you know, I wasn't a trained dancer. And I had to like, learn how to dance and then dance in front of her. And convince her that I'm can dance, basically.

• 47:08Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 47:09Speaker 03

  And sing and sing with her and.

• 47:12Jason Bateman?

  Wow, stressful.

• 47:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 47:14Jason Bateman?

  I mean, it was, was, so then how, how was that? How did, did it go well or did she give you a bunch of notes? Or was she just like, oh, my God, you're amazing. Do this, do that.

• 47:23Speaker 03

  Well, you know, I'm kind of just like, thought like, okay, what would Madonna do? Which is like, convince you that she deserved, you know, to be in this room.

• 47:34Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 47:34Speaker 03

  And, you know.

• 47:35Jason Bateman?

  You owned it.

• 47:36Speaker 03

  And I owned it. And I was kind of like, you can take it or leave it. But if you leave it, if I leave, then that's, you know, that's on you.

• 47:43Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 47:43Speaker 03

  You know what I mean? And it's like, if you take it, great. You know, that kind of like mentality.

• 47:48Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. Very good. That sexy indifference.

• 47:50Speaker 03

  And work the room, literally work the room.

• 47:51Jason Bateman?

  So what happened with that? What happened with that? Still sort of brewing. Still brewing. It's a long gestating, you know, good meals take a long time.

• 47:59Speaker 03

  But I also feel like anything that's great also too, I notice if you hear story like it. I feel like it takes a long time or it's, you know, it's either.

• 48:07Jason Bateman?

  But meanwhile, meanwhile, you've snuck in a couple of fantastic jobs. Uh, Fantastic Four, any of you? Oh, yes. July 25th. That's gonna be huge. Yeah, I mean, what, what was that process like? I imagine there's a lot of effects. You had to work with that pain in the ass Pedro Pascal. I don't know how you get through that. How do you get through something like that? He's real chatty.

• 48:29Speaker 03

  It's so, he, I love him. You know, it's so funny cuz I met Pedro when I was 18.

• 48:36Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 48:36Speaker 03

  And everybody now is on this Pedro craze, which I'm so happy about.

• 48:41Jason Bateman?

  Not us. Not us. We're not fans. We're not fans.

• 48:44Speaker 03

  But I, you know, I've met him and I always thought, you know, he was. Just so talented and it was always a matter of time with him, I felt.

• 48:55Jason Bateman?

  And so, but what about, so like green screens and, and, and, you know, special effects and all that? Like, that's a, that's a big spicy meatball, that thing. You've got costumes and like future stuff.

• 49:07Speaker 03

  Well, no, I didn't have any costumes because they.

• 49:11Jason Bateman?

  Cause you're Silver Surfer.

• 49:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, so I was just like.

• 49:14Jason Bateman?

  Oh wait, you're the Silver Surfer?

• 49:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, so I was like.

• 49:17Jason Bateman?

  Take it easy, Sean.

• 49:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, so.

• 49:19Jason Bateman?

  Here comes Scotty. Scotty's gonna slide in on a chair like Weekend Update. Question.

• 49:24Will Arnett?

  No, I used to love this. When I was a kid, I used to watch it all the time.

• 49:27Speaker 03

  Yeah, so just like I'm chrome and silver.

• 49:30Jason Bateman?

  That's so cool. So does then, does that mean you had to like, wear like a green bodysuit with like little markers on it for visual effects?

• 49:37Speaker 03

  I had the helmet with the giant GoPro type camera and like the wires.

• 49:42Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 49:43Speaker 03

  And it was crazy. And the first day on set, my first day on set was wild because, well, I finished Weapons, like.

• 49:53Jason Bateman?

  No, Weapons, let's not jump to the Josh Brolin vehicle coming out August 8th called Weapons.

• 49:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, by the way, so I filmed that like, I want to say like three weeks before, so like, but my first day on Fantastic, I.

• 50:05Jason Bateman?

  That's Fantastic Four, yeah.

• 50:06Speaker 03

  Fantastic Four.

• 50:07Jason Bateman?

  Okay.

• 50:08Speaker 03

  First steps, um, yes, um, I, yes, that's Fantastic Four. Um, I, you know, had to do this, like, all these like lines in the middle of, it's supposed to be like Times Square and it was 30 feet in the air.

• 50:22Will Arnett?

  JB, you did a bunch of lines in the middle of Times Square, right? Like 94? Sure did, yeah. The New Year's celebration is always a classic. That's what it was.

• 50:32Speaker 03

  But it was crazy. It was, it was crazy because I was doing, you know, it was my first day on set and I was doing a scene 30 feet in the air with an earpiece and a microphone.

• 50:43Speaker 03

  You know, talking to 500 extras and number two was at Marvel, from Marvel was like on set. So I was like, that was my first day. Yeah, but um, but after that, I felt like, you know, I, I, I have no reason to be nervous. I think if I can do a scene thirty-three in the air.

• 51:01Jason Bateman?

  You have a robust promotion schedule coming up. You're gonna travel the world for that?

• 51:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, so it's, I mean, I'm, you know, I feel like with that, they were so, the four, um, the Fantastic Four, the, the cast, they were so nice and I kind of felt like a, a really nice dinner guest in a way. So they like were really great hosts.

• 51:21Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 51:22Speaker 03

  Um, so I'll like come in and out to their dinners, but I'm not gonna, and I'll be like a good dinner guest, but I'm not gonna be like the dinner guest. Yeah.

• 51:29Jason Bateman?

  You'll be number five over there.

• 51:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 51:31Jason Bateman?

  Pick your cities. Yeah.

• 51:32Speaker 03

  Exactly, exactly.

• 51:33Jason Bateman?

  All right. So then that, so then that comes out July twenty-fifth and you got Weapons with Josh Brolin, August eighth. Jeez, man. Um, what's, what's Weapons about?

• 51:40Will Arnett?

  First of all, Brolin. I mean, come on.

• 51:42Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, Brolin. Now, you think Pedro Pascal's a pain in the ass. This guy Brolin.

• 51:47Speaker 03

  I know. I just, I work with all the best men. Jason, Pedro, Josh.

• 51:54Jason Bateman?

  Well, you know how to slay the dragons. Unbelievable. Um, what is that one about?

• 52:00Speaker 03

  Um, it's so crazy. It's, it's kind of like a multi-story intertwined spider web, but it's like a horror Magnolia kind of vibe.

• 52:13Jason Bateman?

  Oh, really?

• 52:14Speaker 03

  I don't even, I don't even know how to explain it, to be quite honest with you.

• 52:17Jason Bateman?

  I'm gonna explain it. When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanished on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. Huh.

• 52:26Will Arnett?

  Well, there it is.

• 52:27Speaker 03

  And I play a teacher.

• 52:28Jason Bateman?

  I'm in. I'm in.

• 52:30Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 52:30Jason Bateman?

  I like you and I like the Brolin fella. Yeah. I think he's gonna go far.

• 52:34Will Arnett?

  Julie, what do you do for fun? What do you do for fun?

• 52:36Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you work, work, work, work, work.

• 52:38Speaker 03

  What do you do when you don't work?

• 52:39Will Arnett?

  Yeah, what do you do when you don't work? You sound like you work a lot, which is great. Bravo. You know, it's, it's great. Great work ethic.

• 52:46Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 52:46Will Arnett?

  But, but what do you do when you're just, you're just chilling? You're not driving? You're, so we know that.

• 52:52Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 52:53Will Arnett?

  Are you?

• 52:54Jason Bateman?

  What are the hobbies?

• 52:55Speaker 03

  This is gonna sound so bad in this interview. Oh my God.

• 52:57Jason Bateman?

  She just skateboards around LA. What do you, what, what's, what's, what's the hobby?

• 53:01Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 53:02Speaker 03

  I'm trying to figure that out.

• 53:04Jason Bateman?

  You have zero hobby right now.

• 53:05Will Arnett?

  When you're down, like you're in LA, you're down, you've got downtime.

• 53:08Speaker 03

  Well, the problem is, is that when I'm not working, I love watching movies. But then even then, it still feels like I'm reminded that like it's still work.

• 53:16Jason Bateman?

  Like, well, like, what are you gonna do the rest of today? You're not, you're not going to set today?

• 53:21Speaker 03

  Well, I have an ADR after this today. And then I am leaving on Thursday to Vancouver for five and a half months.

• 53:31Jason Bateman?

  Oh, my God. So then you're gonna pack, you'll pack tomorrow.

• 53:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 53:35Jason Bateman?

  Okay.

• 53:36Speaker 03

  So I'm always working.

• 53:38Sean Hayes?

  That's great.

• 53:38Jason Bateman?

  What about, um, what are, what are, what are you watching right now on television? Aside from the movies, like, like, will you just put on an old movie wherever it is?

• 53:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, and then, or I'll watch new stuff, or I'll watch things that, um, you know, that I know that I should watch, that I haven't watched yet.

• 53:57Jason Bateman?

  Like Below Deck Mediterranean?

• 53:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, by the way, I never got into that. I'm maybe one of the few. But, but now I just, I'm gonna finish watching the Paul Rubin doc. It's really good.

• 54:10Sean Hayes?

  Oh, yeah, I finished it. It's really good. It's interesting.

• 54:12Speaker 03

  It's so good.

• 54:13Sean Hayes?

  Did you see the Osama Bin Laden doc?

• 54:15Speaker 03

  I started watching it and I wanted to binge watch it, so I stopped. But it looks, it's amazing.

• 54:21Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. Now, what about, talk, talk to me about fashion and modeling. And I'm sure that's a passion for you, but also kind of fun. Sorry, not for you, Will. This is for our guest. This is for our guest, Julia. Yeah, yeah. Um, uh, is that, uh, that, that, is that kind of a hobby? I mean, you don't, you don't, you don't look at it as, as, you're not doing that to make a living because you make, you make plenty as an actor. I'd imagine that it's kind of fun to be asked to do these things?

• 54:49Speaker 03

  Well, I actually, like, there was a very long time where I actually made better money doing that than my acting.

• 54:56Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 54:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, a lot of that came from that.

• 54:58Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yeah. Wow.

• 55:00Speaker 03

  It's like a half, it's like a, I'm like, I'm, you know, I have two jobs, I guess. I don't know, but yeah.

• 55:05Jason Bateman?

  And so do you love, you love all the dress up and the traveling and the?

• 55:09Speaker 03

  I don't love the traveling, but I, as, you know, I do love, I've always loved. Fashion as a kid, because I always found it like a form of expression.

• 55:19Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 55:19Speaker 03

  In a way.

• 55:20Will Arnett?

  You've got a big billboard in New York. What was it for that I've just seen recently? There's.

• 55:25Speaker 03

  It was Gucci.

• 55:26Will Arnett?

  Gucci?

• 55:27Speaker 03

  That was, that was amazing, because I got to shoot with Steven Meisel again, and he shot, you know, he shot my first cover when I was like 21.

• 55:36Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 55:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 55:38Jason Bateman?

  That's cool.

• 55:39Speaker 03

  And I think it was like, yeah, a year before, it did Ozark, the first season of Ozark.

• 55:44Jason Bateman?

  Oh my god.

• 55:45Speaker 03

  So crazy.

• 55:46Jason Bateman?

  That's really fucking cool.

• 55:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 55:49Jason Bateman?

  Very, very cool.

• 55:50Will Arnett?

  Sean, you ever done a cover? Yeah, this year or no? I'm sorry, we need to be more specific. Yeah, just give me the year.

• 55:59Speaker 03

  I think you could do a cover. I think you can do a cover, yeah, why not?

• 56:03Will Arnett?

  GQ, whatever.

• 56:04Jason Bateman?

  Well, Julia, when you get back in five and a half months, maybe we can say hi.

• 56:09Speaker 03

  I know, I know, and I get like, I always, you know, I miss, I miss working with you. That's the thing that I want to do the most.

• 56:16Jason Bateman?

  Back at you.

• 56:17Speaker 03

  You know, work with you again.

• 56:18Will Arnett?

  Boy, she closed her, she closed her eyes when she said that, you know what I mean? It's a tell.

• 56:22Speaker 03

  No, I didn't.

• 56:23Will Arnett?

  A little bit of a tell.

• 56:24Speaker 03

  Well, a little bit.

• 56:25Will Arnett?

  Tell us one thing that we don't know about Jason that you experienced on, that was kind of fun, but also revealing and maybe embarrassing.

• 56:32Jason Bateman?

  She can't think of it.

• 56:33Speaker 03

  It's, no, I can't, so not, Jason's probably the most, he paid me to say all of this, by the way. No, I'm kidding.

• 56:42Speaker 03

  No, Jason is the most like nurturing director I've ever worked with. He's, it's, there's this like sense of safety that.

• 56:53Will Arnett?

  That's our time, I think we just.

• 56:55Jason Bateman?

  You know what, if I ever had the chance to direct Will or Sean, I'd be a fucking monster with them.

• 57:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, what do you, what do you think?

• 57:01Will Arnett?

  You already have.

• 57:02Jason Bateman?

  Shut up over there, Will.

• 57:04Will Arnett?

  You fucking directed, and we got in an argument the first time you directed Arrested Development.

• 57:08Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, because you were all, yeah, because he was all, he came in all fucking pouty, because, who was it? Who lost the election? Carrie?

• 57:16Will Arnett?

  Carrie, yeah.

• 57:16Jason Bateman?

  John, yeah, John Kerry lost the election, and old Canadian Will walks on to set all pouty about our country.

• 57:23Will Arnett?

  Hey man, I was wearing yellow leotards and I was in a fucking banana suit, that's a true story.

• 57:28Jason Bateman?

  I had to pick you up.

• 57:28Will Arnett?

  And Jason and I, and he picked me up with a crane, and we got in an argument.

• 57:31Jason Bateman?

  Dropped you in the bay, yeah.

• 57:32Will Arnett?

  And I'm in a fucking banana suit and we're arguing outside, he's like, just throw the fucking seat, I'm like, hey, fuck you!

• 57:41Speaker 03

  Was that the last time you worked with him?

• 57:44Jason Bateman?

  That was it. As a director?

• 57:46Speaker 03

  Jason, as an actor and Jason directing?

• 57:49Jason Bateman?

  He pursued me so much. He just can't make his deal. I can't, yeah, I can't make it. Yeah, once and for all, we worked together as an actor. Was it the, it was the Smartless doc, right? But that wasn't really acting. No, that wasn't acting. That was the last time we did anything, yeah. One of these days. I see you every goddamn day now doing this. I'm always acting like I like you. And then Sean.

• 58:09Speaker 03

  This was so funny how this happened because I remember you were doing Ozark when you started this podcast.

• 58:16Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 58:16Speaker 03

  And I remember you're like, yeah, you know, I'm just doing something silly. It's like I'm just doing it with my friends. We're just, you know, for shits and gigs.

• 58:24Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 58:24Speaker 03

  And cut to.

• 58:26Jason Bateman?

  It's a monster.

• 58:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 58:27Jason Bateman?

  Thank you, listeners. Yeah. You nice people. Thank you, everybody. I get to meet my heroes like Julia Garner. You're everything I hoped you would be, Julia. And more. They say don't meet your heroes. Yeah. And you were just such a delight.

• 58:40Speaker 03

  Yeah. Oh, I love you.

• 58:41Jason Bateman?

  Love to meet you in person one day. When you get back from your movie, please look me up. Oh, God.

• 58:46Speaker 03

  I'll try, I'll find you.

• 58:48Jason Bateman?

  Yes, please do.

• 58:49Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 58:50Jason Bateman?

  Love you, love to your mother, love to Mark.

• 58:52Speaker 03

  Love you.

• 58:53Jason Bateman?

  Have a great shoot.

• 58:53Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 58:54Jason Bateman?

  And we're gonna see Fantastic Four. Yes. We're gonna see. July what? July what? July.

• 59:00Speaker 03

  Um, July 25th. August 8th.

• 59:02Jason Bateman?

  July 25th.

• 59:03Speaker 03

  August 8th, Weapons.

• 59:04Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, and then, and then look for The Altruist. She's about, is that what you're about to go do?

• 59:09Speaker 03

  Yes, yep.

• 59:10Jason Bateman?

  Okay, that's gonna be on Netflix. Sam Bankman-Fried, you're playing his wife, girlfriend?

• 59:15Speaker 03

  Girlfriend, Caroline Ellison.

• 59:16Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. Wow. There you go. Very, very good.

• 59:19Sean Hayes?

  That's exciting.

• 59:20Jason Bateman?

  Impressive, impressive. You're an impressive person.

• 59:22Sean Hayes?

  Congrats on everything, Julia.

• 59:23Speaker 03

  Thank you guys so much.

• 59:25Jason Bateman?

  Very thrilled for you, happy for you, love you.

• 59:26Speaker 03

  Thank you, love you.

• 59:27Jason Bateman?

  Go kill it.

• 59:28Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 59:29Jason Bateman?

  Hit me when you're back.

• 59:30Speaker 03

  Yes, I will. Thank you guys so much.

• 59:32Jason Bateman?

  Bye, Julia, thank you. Bye, Julia.

• 59:37Will Arnett?

  Oh my god, Jason.

• 59:39Jason Bateman?

  Right?

• 59:40Will Arnett?

  By the way, you must feel, you must genuinely feel a sense of pride. Having watched her grow from being a sort of a young actor, like a young kid.

• 59:50Jason Bateman?

  She was 22.

• 59:51Will Arnett?

  Yeah, she starts on the show, a show that you helped create and brought to life and directed and were the star of, and then she had, she was not only amazing in it, but was recognized and had all the success and has now had a huge career and in part by all the great work she did on a show that you were instrumental in. That must, you must feel a great sense of pride in that.

• 1:00:11Jason Bateman?

  Yes, but just barely. I take nothing away from her. I mean, she was like.

• 1:00:15Will Arnett?

  You're not taking credit.

• 1:00:16Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, no, but I mean, she, I remember very, very quickly, um, uh, we made a sort of a, a decision to really make that character really drive a lot of story because she was so, so good and the audience was going crazy for her. And yeah, it was a really credit to Chris Mundie and the whole writing staff that kind of changed a lot of storylines to really, um, uh, you know, utilize what a great talent she was.

• 1:00:44Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, she's, yeah, and delightful person. Like, I've never met her before.

• 1:00:49Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's so, so sweet. My god.

• 1:00:51Will Arnett?

  So sweet.

• 1:00:52Jason Bateman?

  Exact opposite of the monster, you know, Ruth was, although, you know, she did play the character with a lot of vulnerability, but like she was really capable of just being, you know.

• 1:01:01Sean Hayes?

  You love to hate her.

• 1:01:02Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:02Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, love the character, I mean.

• 1:01:04Jason Bateman?

  But what a, what a sweetheart. I'm so glad she's doing really well and, um, happy, happy home life, happy work life. Yeah.

• 1:01:12Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:13Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. How about she, yeah, I always find it interesting when a lot of actors I know are married to musicians, you know?

• 1:01:18Jason Bateman?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:01:19Sean Hayes?

  Like, it's a good combo.

• 1:01:20Jason Bateman?

  You're married to one?

• 1:01:21Sean Hayes?

  Yes, I am married to one. He makes music, yeah.

• 1:01:24Jason Bateman?

  And Will, you do some modeling?

• 1:01:25Will Arnett?

  I'm married, I'm married to my work, yeah, as a model. Is.

• 1:01:30Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, what's your, is your next, your next campaign for, Will?

• 1:01:34Will Arnett?

  Uh, my next campaign is for laxative and, um, I've moved into a different category at this stage of my life. So.

• 1:01:42Sean Hayes?

  Something for the seniors?

• 1:01:44Will Arnett?

  Yeah, which I think, and because now we live in this world where, and so anyway, so it's like.

• 1:01:48Sean Hayes?

  So those photo shoots gotta be shorter then, no?

• 1:01:50Will Arnett?

  And when the poster is just, "I give a shit a lot," you know?

• 1:01:56Will Arnett?

  And it's going, it's going pretty, it's going pretty well.

• 1:02:00Sean Hayes?

  Sounds like it's going smoothly.

• 1:02:02Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:02Sean Hayes?

  Hey, huh? Yeah, I got new glasses. Oh, okay. So you got the kind.

• 1:02:08Will Arnett?

  So work in, work in bifocal backwards.

• 1:02:11Sean Hayes?

  That's right. Oh, well, you ruined it. No, no, go ahead.

• 1:02:13Will Arnett?

  Oh, I don't, I don't think I ruined it. I don't think you were ahead of anybody on that. The second you said glasses, but go fucking ahead.

• 1:02:20Sean Hayes?

  Tell us the story about your new specs. They really are new. I just got them yesterday. Are they?

• 1:02:24Will Arnett?

  Is it one prescription?

• 1:02:26Sean Hayes?

  No, it's two, because the bottoms are, what are they?

• 1:02:29Will Arnett?

  That, no, it's not the bottoms are, it, by having two, it makes them. Bi-focals. Do you not get that?

• 1:02:37Sean Hayes?

  Well, you're saying now the bi is so angry.

• 1:02:40Will Arnett?

  Because you just don't get it when it is bi.

• 1:02:47Sean Hayes?

  Goodbye.

• 1:02:49Sean Hayes?

  Goodbye.

• 1:03:18Sean Hayes?

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