"Margot Robbie"

We go incogneets this week with hockey-fan Margot Robbie. A new bronzer, an Aussie Mafia, slapping Leo, and much more! But at the end of the day… (what was in the trunk?) It’s an all-new SmartLess.

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

• 0:01Sean Hayes?

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• 2:48Sean Hayes?

  You know, hey, Will, good morning. How are you today?

• 2:50Will Arnett?

  Oh, hey, Sean, yeah, good morning. I'm good.

• 2:52Sean Hayes?

  I set my thermostat, even though it's winter.

• 2:55Will Arnett?

  Oh, my God, hang on. Fucking let me sit down for this.

• 2:57Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I set my thermostat to put the air conditioning on because everybody in my building in New York has the heat on. So at night, I'm asleep with the air conditioning on. Isn't that kind of dumb?

• 3:08Will Arnett?

  No, it's not dumb. I'm just trying to think of a synonym right now. It's, oh, you know what? It's smartless.

• 3:14Sean Hayes?

  Oh.

• 3:15Will Arnett?

  Welcome to Smartless.

• 3:34Jason Bateman?

  So, Sean.

• 3:35Sean Hayes?

  Hey.

• 3:36Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you know, now.

• 3:37Sean Hayes?

  I just, I'm just happy to be here. I just, this is like incredible. This is amazing.

• 3:43Will Arnett?

  Jason, don't talk to him like that. Hang on. Sean, shut up.

• 3:47Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. Sean, you're on Eastern time, so he's more cups of coffee into his day than we are.

• 3:54Will Arnett?

  Sean, he's so, he's such a, he never lets it show. He works his frickin' tail off. He's there in rehearsal doing this play. And then he just shows up and he doesn't complain. Do you ever notice that?

• 4:06Sean Hayes?

  Well, live with me.

• 4:07Will Arnett?

  Let me ask Crank, let me ask Crankerville. Crankerville, do you notice?

• 4:11Jason Bateman?

  I've never heard you complain about anything.

• 4:13Will Arnett?

  He doesn't, right?

• 4:14Sean Hayes?

  I do, I kind of do. Well, I would. Like, it's Scotty.

• 4:19Will Arnett?

  Scotty's like, all he does is complain.

• 4:21Sean Hayes?

  Scotty's listening, and that was it.

• 4:24Jason Bateman?

  So wait, so wait, Scotty always on, always on the extra set of cans?

• 4:29Will Arnett?

  Not always, but a lot of times he listens like just for fun.

• 4:31Jason Bateman?

  I love it.

• 4:32Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 4:32Jason Bateman?

  Now Sean, you haven't, I got, I got a full night of Willie's new look last night.

• 4:40Will Arnett?

  Oh, right, yeah, yeah.

• 4:41Jason Bateman?

  He just looks so goddamn handsome with this facial hair.

• 4:45Will Arnett?

  Look at that.

• 4:45Jason Bateman?

  And he cut his hair.

• 4:46Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you never grow your beard out. I know, thank you. Yeah. Where are your rings, Willie? Did you get the, get the, keep the rings? I know, I had the rings, I know, I know. So for Tracy, Will's doing this big film to follow up the other film.

• 4:59Jason Bateman?

  Oh, it's for a, it's not for a, is it for a part?

• 5:02Will Arnett?

  Yeah. Yeah, it's for the thing I just did with Tony Gilroy. Well, say what it is. Tony Gilroy's directing, you and Pedro Pascal and who else? And Olivia Wilde and a lot of great people and it's, yeah, called Behemoth and, yeah. Yeah, it's very cool that you're part of that. Yeah, and yeah, it was really fun. Yeah, it was really fun that they asked me to.

• 5:19Jason Bateman?

  Well, wait, are you playing some fucking stud? Cause you look like it.

• 5:25Will Arnett?

  No, he's, it's, I can't really say anything because I realized that they haven't said anything of what it's about. So I'm not allowed to really say.

• 5:32Jason Bateman?

  It's not Star Wars. Fucking, please, my god. Do you have like watermark scripts and stuff?

• 5:38Will Arnett?

  Of course, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's.

• 5:41Jason Bateman?

  Well, you're handsome in it, I can tell you that. So you're gonna hold the look, you're gonna keep the look? I mean, you know, listen, I mean, for, for anyone who cares out there, us soft actor guys, the only time we ever stumble into a new look, it's because somebody with taste in a makeup trailer kind of carved one into us for a part. And then we're like, we're done with the movie and we're like, oh, maybe I'll just hold on to a little element of this.

• 6:06Will Arnett?

  Yeah. Like when you had your long hair for a while.

• 6:08Jason Bateman?

  Well, I still, yeah, I mean, I, Amanda, I came home, Amanda was like, oh, you're keeping that. So.

• 6:14Will Arnett?

  Really? Oh, god.

• 6:15Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 6:16Will Arnett?

  Yeah, but you cut it off pretty fast after the Black Rabbit.

• 6:19Jason Bateman?

  But it's still a little long, isn't it? I mean, it's not stupid long like it was before.

• 6:23Will Arnett?

  Remember when like when Jason got like really kind of in shape and he was doing Black Rabbit and he had the long hair?

• 6:27Jason Bateman?

  Wait, I'm still kind of in shape a little bit?

• 6:30Will Arnett?

  And Amanda was like, it's kind of like having sex with like a stranger. And she said with kind of with glee.

• 6:35Jason Bateman?

  With some, with some tweaker you give a ride to, the ride home for.

• 6:42Will Arnett?

  She was a little, she was a little too excited about last night.

• 6:45Jason Bateman?

  A little change of pace never hurts, right?

• 6:47Will Arnett?

  But we missed you, Sean. It was the first time.

• 6:49Sean Hayes?

  I know. What, did you guys get together last night?

• 6:51Will Arnett?

  Yeah, we did Sunday dinner, Sunday fun day. And it was the first time in a while for me. And it was so great seeing everybody and, and seeing this guy.

• 7:00Sean Hayes?

  Did Carolyn go?

• 7:01Will Arnett?

  The love of my life. And, uh, no, she was, something came up.

• 7:04Jason Bateman?

  It's not working out, Sean. It's not working out. We're making news today, guys.

• 7:08Will Arnett?

  No, no, no, no, no. We are not making news. Uh, it's not true. Something came up and then, uh, we had, uh, we had, uh, Danny and Don Dees, which was great seeing them. Love.

• 7:18Sean Hayes?

  I just heard from Don. Yeah, she's great.

• 7:20Will Arnett?

  Willie Speck.

• 7:21Sean Hayes?

  Oh, man, the whole crew.

• 7:23Will Arnett?

  Uh, Jimmy Hedge, uh, and we saw, uh, Sweet, Sweet, Sweet, uh, Sweet Richard.

• 7:29Jason Bateman?

  Sweet Little Maple. Oh, Richard and Jenny.

• 7:31Will Arnett?

  And Richard and Jenny.

• 7:32Sean Hayes?

  But Jennifer Aniston wasn't there, was she?

• 7:34Jason Bateman?

  Oh, you know it, girl.

• 7:36Will Arnett?

  Yo, you know it.

• 7:38Jason Bateman?

  She was frying up some, uh, what did we have last night?

• 7:41Will Arnett?

  We had, uh, we had those burgers. By the way, how about Thoreau had sleeves last night?

• 7:46Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, well, it's cold out here in Los Angeles.

• 7:48Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it was a little cold.

• 7:49Sean Hayes?

  Geez, man.

• 7:51Will Arnett?

  He had sleeves, but he had two t-shirts. He had the two, the layered t-shirts.

• 7:55Jason Bateman?

  He had this, he had a Steve Bannon combo going.

• 8:00Sean Hayes?

  Oh, my God. God, everybody was there.

• 8:03Will Arnett?

  It was fun, I know.

• 8:04Jason Bateman?

  You, you guys were missed. You and Scotty.

• 8:06Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, well, that's very nice.

• 8:07Will Arnett?

  Sorely missed. Sorely, sorely missed.

• 8:09Jason Bateman?

  Any way you can get a vicious stomach virus and get fired off that play?

• 8:13Sean Hayes?

  I think about it all the time. You know, yesterday was the big, big, big snowstorm. Massive. So we had, oh, we, so we canceled, um, we had to cancel rehearsal. So I, but I still wanted to run.

• 8:23Jason Bateman?

  Is this, is this, you guys rehearsing out in a park?

• 8:29Jason Bateman?

  I mean, what, the, got a new, no, little excuse. Let's, let's take the day off.

• 8:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, we're doing, it's outside. It's in the, uh, it's in Central Park outside. No, I said, so it was rehearsal, cause you couldn't, you, you couldn't drive or go anywhere in the streets or whatever. So anyway, so they canceled. And I said this, but I still wanted to run the show. So it's like fresh in my head, you know? So I said, Scotty, um, there's a performance in the bedroom tonight. It starts at 7:00 PM. There's one ticket. Uh, cause there's one chair in the bedroom. I said, you can, there's a bathroom. If you, there's no intermission, but there's a bathroom right next to the chair. And if you want to fall asleep during the performance, there's a bed.

• 9:02Jason Bateman?

  Jesus, I'm getting a hard on. What, tell me more about it. Yeah.

• 9:05Will Arnett?

  What a sell on this play. I mean, Jesus.

• 9:08Jason Bateman?

  How many times, how many times does that pitch come out of your mouth? There's a performance in the bedroom tonight.

• 9:13Will Arnett?

  I was gonna make a joke, but then Sean, it occurred to me, you know what would be a great biopic you should do? Cause you know a lot about it is the, the story of Chef Boyardee.

• 9:23Will Arnett?

  The Chef Boyardee story.

• 9:25Sean Hayes?

  Don't fucking threaten me.

• 9:26Jason Bateman?

  But how does a rehearsal for a one man show go? I mean, so you're just, it's just you're up there and then you got the director sitting in the middle of the house.

• 9:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, no.

• 9:35Will Arnett?

  Heck is just you and it's just, right?

• 9:37Sean Hayes?

  It's weird, but you know, the, the, um.

• 9:40Jason Bateman?

  Do you light the show with a flashlight? Is that it?

• 9:43Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, well, people have to use their phone lights. That's how we get the light. Everybody in the audience. No, they, they, uh, during the run through the other day, uh, we had like our first quote audience, but it was all like the producers and the people doing behind the scenes stuff. So it was like 20 people, which is a lot of people after you've been rehearsing by yourself. And so I walked in and I started laughing. I'm like, I can't do this. This is insane.

• 10:05Will Arnett?

  Oh, God.

• 10:05Jason Bateman?

  They all start panicking. Now, I think we talked about this before, but forgive my old man brain. I've forgotten. Do you have some sort of a net, some sort of a fail safe? Like if I go up, so you, somebody just off stage?

• 10:20Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, well, for previews, uh, which are two weeks, there'll be somebody in the front row on, on book and then.

• 10:26Jason Bateman?

  Row? That's, that, that, you can't look to the audience for the line?

• 10:30Sean Hayes?

  No, but you can just say line or whatever.

• 10:32Jason Bateman?

  Really? And the person in the front row, like, is there gonna be a person in front row with a, with a, with a script in their hands?

• 10:37Sean Hayes?

  This is correct.

• 10:38Will Arnett?

  When you say person, you mean Scotty, obviously.

• 10:42Jason Bateman?

  Isn't that gonna be distracting for the people around this person that this person's snapping script pages?

• 10:46Sean Hayes?

  What are you gonna do?

• 10:47Jason Bateman?

  I'll tell you what you're gonna do. You put somebody off fucking, off stage in the wings.

• 10:51Sean Hayes?

  For the show, that's.

• 10:52Will Arnett?

  This is, well, don't tell them how to do it.

• 10:54Jason Bateman?

  But you're selling tickets for the preview.

• 10:56Sean Hayes?

  That's correct.

• 10:57Will Arnett?

  That's correct, yeah. Well, they, because they get to see, they get to see how the show's aged.

• 11:01Jason Bateman?

  It should be a discounted ticket then because Sean doesn't have a shit together yet.

• 11:04Will Arnett?

  What are you, what are you, an advocacy group? What are you doing? By the way, Sean, quick question. First of all, Sean, obviously Jason and I are thrilled to have you on the show.

• 11:14Will Arnett?

  Do you, are you, Shawnee is-

• 11:17Sean Hayes?

  I'm such a big fan of both of you.

• 11:19Will Arnett?

  We don't usually have theater types. You're so good. Do you have any stories that you'd like to- Shawnee, do you, is Scotty off book? Seriously?

• 11:27Sean Hayes?

  Scott, wait, you mean because from running lines with me? I mean, a tiny, not really. I mean, a tiny bit.

• 11:32Will Arnett?

  Scotty, come into frame. Scotty, are you off book a little bit?

• 11:34Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wait, he's way down there. Scotty, you off book a little bit? You know that, you love that one line, I say.

• 11:39Jason Bateman?

  You know that one line?

• 11:42Jason Bateman?

  The one you always say, "You nailed it."

• 11:44Sean Hayes?

  What is it?

• 11:46Jason Bateman?

  Shut up, Scotty. Just shut up. Hey, Scotty, what's the first line of the play?

• 11:51Sean Hayes?

  I don't know.

• 11:53Jason Bateman?

  Oh, that's your man, front row.

• 12:00Sean Hayes?

  What if the lights come up, I'm like, line?

• 12:02Jason Bateman?

  Did you get a deal on him?

• 12:04Will Arnett?

  Let me tell you, I told you that thing when I auditioned for David Chase for The Sopranos, and I had one line, and I got the Silver Cup, and Georgiana Watkins, the casting director, I go and she goes, "You just, I know you're gonna meet him, but he wants everybody to say one line." I was like, "One line? How am I gonna do it?" You know, the bunch of actors out there for it. This is like 2001 or 2002. Anyway, I go out there, I go into the room with David Chase, Georgiana Watkins in there, and I've got this piece of paper with the one line, and she goes, "You ready to start?" I go, "Yeah," and he's just watching us, gonna me deliver it to her, and I look at her and I just go, "Line."

• 12:39Will Arnett?

  And he burst out laughing and I got the job. Not a comedy, but he was, I think he was so, he was like, "This motherfucker just came in here and said..."

• 12:46Jason Bateman?

  Was this for The Sopranos?

• 12:47Will Arnett?

  The Sopranos, yeah.

• 12:48Jason Bateman?

  You were on The Sopranos?

• 12:49Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I know. That's what a lot of people say.

• 12:51Jason Bateman?

  Wait, come on, really?

• 12:53Sean Hayes?

  I didn't know that. I wanna see that.

• 12:55Jason Bateman?

  Can you believe I still have not watched that show?

• 12:56Sean Hayes?

  I haven't either.

• 12:58Will Arnett?

  It's real good. It's real good.

• 13:00Jason Bateman?

  It's gonna be a hit, I hear. All right, come on, here we go.

• 13:02Will Arnett?

  Jimmy, let's get to your guest. I mean, what's going on?

• 13:04Jason Bateman?

  Let's get to our guest. I mean, she's probably left or asleep by now. Here we come. Wait a second, let me pull up the notes.

• 13:11Will Arnett?

  Here we go.

• 13:12Jason Bateman?

  Here we go. Guys.

• 13:13Will Arnett?

  Yes.

• 13:14Jason Bateman?

  Today, we have an actor that I met once, very briefly, and was as knocked out by her charm and warmth as you would think that you- You would be. She's one of our biggest stars, an incredibly successful producer. She kills it in both comedy and drama, big films and small. She has box office success as well as critical praise. Her nominations are numerous, including two for an Academy Award. She knows how to hold her breath for five minutes. She's a trained pickpocket and will.

• 13:42Will Arnett?

  I know what it is.

• 13:43Jason Bateman?

  She plays ice hockey competitively. She's at the top of the mountain, folks, but has cleared an hour for a good old smartless chat and giggle. And I couldn't be more grateful to her. Gang, please welcome Margot Robbie.

• 14:00Jason Bateman?

  Hey, Margo.

• 14:01Sean Hayes?

  Hi, Margo.

• 14:02Jason Bateman?

  What's going on, Margo?

• 14:04Will Arnett?

  She's a big Rangers fan.

• 14:06Speaker 03

  I am. I've been sitting here giggling, listening to you guys shoot the shit. That was really fun. No, I love that. That was my favorite part. Yeah, I love the Rangers.

• 14:18Jason Bateman?

  Have you guys seen each other out there at the Garden?

• 14:20Speaker 03

  No.

• 14:21Jason Bateman?

  No?

• 14:21Will Arnett?

  I've seen, I've seen you there. I, you know, I'm, yeah, I'm incognito, but I've seen. Short for incognito.

• 14:28Speaker 03

  I have to say, before we keep talking about hockey, which I hope we do, Will, I have to say, I fucking loved Is This Thing On? And I, you are so good in it. And I swear to God, as soon as I finished. Literally, as soon as I finished watching it, the first thing I said, I was like, give the man the Oscar. Like, you were so unreal in it. I loved it.

• 14:50Will Arnett?

  That's very kind of you. Thank you so much.

• 14:52Jason Bateman?

  And now let's have your review on this look, this new look. Are you in love with it as I am?

• 14:56Speaker 03

  Honestly, quite the reveal when I whipped off the piece of paper from the screen just there. You look great.

• 15:02Jason Bateman?

  All right.

• 15:04Speaker 03

  You look tanned as well. Have you been on holiday?

• 15:06Jason Bateman?

  It's a new bronzer.

• 15:09Will Arnett?

  Jason's new line, he does a lot of men's skincare.

• 15:12Jason Bateman?

  This one is water resistant. It's good for all climates. Won't leak on you, won't run.

• 15:17Will Arnett?

  He does, this one is called Early June, so it's not too heavy. It just looks like the summer started.

• 15:22Speaker 03

  It's working for you.

• 15:23Sean Hayes?

  Margo, so nice to meet you. I mean, this is so cool. Yeah. And I had no idea about the hockey thing. You play hockey? You still play hockey?

• 15:34Speaker 03

  Do you know what? I, I don't, I haven't for a couple of years, but I. Loved The Mighty Ducks when I was a kid, the movie.

• 15:42Will Arnett?

  Sure, sure.

• 15:43Speaker 03

  And I desperately wanted to play ice hockey, but I I'm from a place called the Gold Coast in Australia.

• 15:49Will Arnett?

  Sure.

• 15:49Speaker 03

  And there was no ice, and so there was no way to play ice hockey. So I ended up playing field hockey all through school. And um when I when I got to America, the first thing I did, I was like, I'm gonna play ice hockey. I'm here, I've made it in America, I can finally live out this dream. And so I joined an ice hockey team.

• 16:07Will Arnett?

  Really?

• 16:08Speaker 03

  And I hadn't really ever ice skated.

• 16:09Will Arnett?

  Margo, then as a Canadian, the nation of Canada is behind you. You are all of a sudden, you've you've reached elite status in Canada.

• 16:18Speaker 03

  It was so fun.

• 16:19Jason Bateman?

  Now, was this before or after the uh the skating training for Itonia?

• 16:25Speaker 03

  Well before. It would have been very helpful if this came after that, but no, it was well before. So I I hadn't really skated before. I had like here and there, like, you know, I don't know, just a few times maybe in my life, but not really. And I kind of, I think I just thought, oh, just run. And it and there's so much padding that honestly, it was it was fine. But I played in a coed team and um

• 16:47Will Arnett?

  Jesus.

• 16:47Speaker 03

  There was only one other girl on the team. But you know, when you're in all your gear, you can't really tell that you're a girl. You know, like, I just looked like a very small guy.

• 16:56Will Arnett?

  I had a problem with that one Saturday night. Go ahead.

• 17:01Will Arnett?

  Hey, man, you need a ride?

• 17:02Speaker 03

  I wanna hear more about that. Um, yeah, so I just looked like a small dude on the team, so I I'd get picked on. They would check me so hard, but yeah.

• 17:10Will Arnett?

  Ay, ay, ay. That's that's pretty ballsy.

• 17:14Speaker 03

  And then I take off the helmet at the end of the game, they'd be like, oh shit, sorry, I didn't know you were a girl.

• 17:18Will Arnett?

  But you never you never got any, you you didn't get any, you didn't tune anybody up. You didn't you didn't get any any fights.

• 17:23Jason Bateman?

  Any fights?

• 17:24Speaker 03

  No, no, no. I was I was I was way smaller than everyone.

• 17:27Jason Bateman?

  Wow, that's cool. All right, so you're out there in Australia and you are um You're enjoying, was it, done tiny bit of research. Was it, was it the infatuation with Harry Potter that got you really excited about movies and, and, and, and, and, and acting and stuff like that? That, that's what started the, where did, where did, where did it all start out there? Cause mom or, mom nor dad was a part of it.

• 17:54Speaker 03

  No, no one's, no one's in the biz in my family. I had never met anyone who'd even so much as walked on a film set.

• 18:00Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you were on a farm, right?

• 18:01Speaker 03

  Until I was, I was, I spent a lot of time on a farm, but I myself was not on a farm. I was on property, but a lot.

• 18:10Speaker 03

  But, uh, no, I don't know. I was just always obsessed with movies. I, I would just, uh, watch them again and again. Like we had a, you know, like most kids from the nineties, like we had a collection of videos and I'd just watch them to death and then I'd recreate them and like I was just.

• 18:26Jason Bateman?

  And Harry Potter was a big, a big part of that?

• 18:28Speaker 03

  I was obsessed with the books. Um, so, uh, no, that really didn't bleed into my like movie obsession. I was just obsessed with movies and watching them. And, uh, yeah, my mom just used to watch me like, I'd, I'd regurgitate like, until like, she'd be there making dinner in the kitchen and I'd just be reenacting something. She kept being like, how do you, how are you, how are you remembering all this? Where is this coming from?

• 18:50Sean Hayes?

  Is there one that you would do over and over again? Is there like one that you would like?

• 18:53Jason Bateman?

  Was there a particular actor or actress that you were like, oh God?

• 18:56Speaker 03

  Goldie Hawn, I was a big. Good one. I loved everything she did.

• 19:02Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, likewise.

• 19:03Speaker 03

  And then there was like, uh, The Fifth Element was like my favorite film when I was. And so I'd try and recreate all those like action sequences and I was, yeah, I was a bit of a.

• 19:12Sean Hayes?

  How funny was Chris Tucker in that? Yeah.

• 19:14Speaker 03

  So good.

• 19:15Jason Bateman?

  What, um, then what, what, so then, so you go down to Melbourne, you get, um, a couple of jobs there such that you feel like, well, maybe this can arm me with the kind of, uh, experience and position in the community somewhat that I can go to America and, and try to parlay that into something bigger, better?

• 19:37Speaker 03

  Totally, yeah. I mean, I was on, yes, I was on the Gold Coast and which ironically now a lot of movies are shooting on the Gold Coast. But growing up, that was, it felt very far away. So if you really wanted to do anything, um, you know, the biggest shows were all in Sydney and Melbourne.

• 19:50Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 19:51Speaker 03

  I ended up eventually finding my way into an audition for like practically a student film and ended up doing that. And through that, you know how things are, like you do one unpaid thing, it leads to another unpaid thing, leads to another thing. And then eventually someone pays you to do it. Um, so I.

• 20:05Will Arnett?

  And you're about sixteen, seventeen, eighteen?

• 20:08Speaker 03

  Sixteen, yes. So I was in my final year of high school. And then I ended up getting a guest role on a TV show that shot in Melbourne. So that kind of took me into the big smoke. And then once I was in Melbourne, that I was, I could quickly parlay like one guest role into another guest role in a TV show with the same casting director. And then while I was in Melbourne, I auditioned for Neighbours, which is a big soap.

• 20:29Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah. The biggest.

• 20:31Speaker 03

  Oh, you've heard of it?

• 20:32Will Arnett?

  Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm up on all things Australia. Except for I will say I'm ignorant enough that I didn't realize that Gold Coast was the name of the actual city. I thought it was just kind of an area, but it's the actual.

• 20:43Speaker 03

  I know, it's kind of confusing. And you also say, you say the Gold Coast, not like in, I don't, you don't live in Mel-, you live in Melbourne, you live in Sydney, but you live on the Gold Coast, even though that's the name of the city.

• 20:54Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow.

• 20:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's confusing.

• 20:55Jason Bateman?

  And that's up north, uh, north, uh, northeast, uh, like Brisbane?

• 20:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly. An hour drive from Brisbane, an hour drive from Byron.

• 21:04Jason Bateman?

  And where, where, where are you today? Are, where are we finding you today?

• 21:06Speaker 03

  I'm in L A.

• 21:07Jason Bateman?

  Oh, you are? Okay.

• 21:08Speaker 03

  We're, we're about to start the junket for Wuthering Heights, which is a film that we've got coming out.

• 21:13Will Arnett?

  Oh, I can't wait for that.

• 21:15Jason Bateman?

  We're gonna get to that.

• 21:16Speaker 03

  It's so good, guys.

• 21:18Will Arnett?

  I can't wait.

• 21:20Speaker 03

  I was, I'm so excited.

• 21:22Jason Bateman?

  No, I know. We'll hold you to that.

• 21:24Will Arnett?

  I mean, I'm excited.

• 21:25Jason Bateman?

  But, um, all right. So but what, what's going on with school at this moment? So you're, you're in your last year of high school. Are you thinking about college? Are you thinking about another career that might be more predictable, something, uh, that you can count on more?

• 21:39Speaker 03

  I didn't really, yeah, I didn't really know what I was gonna, cause I, I. It still hadn't occurred to me that I could do acting as a job, even though I had started doing these like small unpaid things on the Gold Coast. So about halfway through high school, I started, you know, I did my first like, you know, the thing that I described as like a student film. It's like a independent film that never got distribution. So I don't really know what to call it other than a tiny micro budget film. Um, and so I did two of those. I did, I, I would do commercials for free and, you know, whatever. And then, uh, the job in Melbourne kind of timed out the end of high school. So it turned out pretty great that I got to finish my childhood, really.

• 22:16Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 22:17Speaker 03

  Um, and then, and then, you know, two months later, I got the job on, on Neighbours. And then I've been working professionally ever since. So.

• 22:25Jason Bateman?

  So you thought, no, don't, I don't have time for college. Don't have time to get a backup.

• 22:29Speaker 03

  Well, I actually, to be honest, I didn't have the money to go to uni anyway. And I, I kind of thought, this is crazy. Am I really gonna go, you know, the thing is like, you finish school, you go to university. And I know it's like that in America too, like go off to college. But I was like, but there's, I don't know that there's something I want to study specifically. Am I gonna put myself in crazy debt for, for like, for what? I was like, that's insane. So I couldn't get my head around that.

• 22:53Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, cause you were lucky enough to know at a young age exactly what you wanted to do, which is great.

• 22:57Jason Bateman?

  But don't, but don't, most, but most kids, I mean, I'm talking to my daughters about this now. It's like, you, you don't, you don't, there's no pressure to like know what your career is gonna be, at least in your first two years. Isn't it like the third and fourth year where you have to declare your major?

• 23:10Speaker 03

  I think it's a bit different in America. I feel like in America, oh, by the way, all I wanted to do was go to college in America. Just because watching movies that look like the funnest thing in the whole world. And I wanna be like, why? What do you wanna study? I'm like, oh, I don't care about what I would want. I just wanna go to college in America.

• 23:24Sean Hayes?

  That's exactly why you go.

• 23:25Speaker 03

  I wanna go to a frat fraternity party and drink up the red cups and all that stuff.

• 23:30Jason Bateman?

  My daughter's in that right now.

• 23:31Speaker 03

  And so I think, I think, I get the impression that for you guys in America, it's like you go to college. To have a college experience and at some point during that experience, you realize, oh, I really like this class I'm taking and now I'm going to shift in that direction.

• 23:43Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 23:44Speaker 03

  It's not really so much like that in Australia. You, you, you kind of have to decide in high school what it is that you like. So you're like, oh, I want to be a lawyer or I want to do business or something. And then you pick your degree and then you do that degree. And it's a little, it's a little shorter as well.

• 23:58Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 23:58Speaker 03

  You can even do your full degree in like two and a half years. And in Australia, you could kind of back it, back it up like that.

• 24:04Will Arnett?

  I just, I, my experience was I was like, I don't want, I, I feel like I'm just going to go and waste my time doing this when I know that that's not where, I just want to go and start life now.

• 24:13Jason Bateman?

  And were you doing what your parents wanted you to do too? Was that part of it?

• 24:17Will Arnett?

  Who, me?

• 24:18Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you.

• 24:18Will Arnett?

  Yeah, a little bit.

• 24:19Jason Bateman?

  Tell me your name one more time, fella. You're handsome. Look how handsome this guy is.

• 24:24Speaker 03

  Who's this handsome guy on the single guy?

• 24:26Sean Hayes?

  Margot, I remember in college, we used to have parties and we'd, you know, lug the keg up the stairs. Yeah, totally. And this apartment.

• 24:35Speaker 03

  Just like in the movies.

• 24:36Sean Hayes?

  Totally. And we charged $3 a cup when you come in. We'd buy the kegs. We'd make all this money. And at the end of the night, the floor would just be trashed with beer everywhere in our apartment. And at that age, you just kind of don't care.

• 24:49Speaker 03

  No, that's, that's the dream. That's, that's all I wanted. Do you know what? I, part of me was, you know, part of me was like, oh no, I'm, you know, I started acting like I said, I was a neighbor's, whatever. And I was like, oh, I haven't gone to university and I guess I'm never going to at this point. Does that mean I'm, am I dumb? And I, I remember, I remember asking my sister.

• 25:11Sean Hayes?

  I look in the mirror and say that to myself every day.

• 25:14Speaker 03

  I like almost wanted to check that I, this didn't mean I wasn't in, you know, didn't mean I wasn't smart. I, my sister was, you know, we're very, very, very different people. And so she was studying to be an accountant in university, something I never would have done. But I remember saying, I was like, hey, can I do one of your assignments, one of your uni assignments? Cause I just need to check that I, that acting's not making me dumb. And, and I did it. And, and by the way, like numbers and accounting is not my forte at all. And I got like an A minus and I, I was like, okay, cool. And then I felt good after that. I was like, I'm good. I can do, I know I can do it if I need to.

• 25:50Sean Hayes?

  Cause of life experience, right?

• 25:52Speaker 03

  Well, I mean, I studied. It was all about, you know, cognitive dissonance and some boring shit.

• 25:57Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 25:57Speaker 03

  But yeah.

• 26:00Jason Bateman?

  We'll be right back.

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• 29:24Sean Hayes?

  And now, back to the show.

• 29:27Jason Bateman?

  All right, so you get to Hollywood. You got, well, it's not Hollywood first, right?

• 29:31Speaker 03

  No, so I was on Neighbors for three years, which is a pretty intense and very, very fun and amazing training sort of thing as a young actor. Yeah, and so I did that for three years. And then, when my contract finished, I started about six months into that job on Neighbors. I'm looking around, you've got a cast of, say, 30 people, aging from eight years old to 80 years old. And it's, you know, I looked around and I was like, okay, so some people are lifers here, some people have, you know, just made a... A life just from acting like and I'd ask the cast members, I was like, so you you don't have any side jobs, you don't have a second job that you go do and they're like, no, just this. And I was like, wow, okay, so you can make enough money doing this that you can

• 30:13Speaker 03

  like pay for a house and put your kids through school and they're like, yeah. And I was like, oh, excellent. Great. I'm gonna do this then. So I'm gonna be an actor then. Great. Um, and then I was looking at some of the younger cast members who would. So there was kind of three choices on Neighbors either one, you you can't keep up, you get fired and it's like a revolving door. So like you need to be able to keep up. Number two, you are great and you stay and you you can be on there for like twenty, thirty years. You know, it's a long running. So or option three, you do it for a little bit and then you make the jump to America and you try your luck in America. So I I I knew that I wanted to be in Hollywood and do like American films and.

• 30:51Jason Bateman?

  Margot, just just to be clear, there have been a lot of members, cast members over the years from Neighbors who have who have done that and made and gone to America and done great things, right?

• 31:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, and Home in a Way. So like the two main soaps, Neighbors and Home in a Way. So it's like Kylie Minogue was on Neighbors and like Chris Hemsworth was on Home in a Way. Wow, wow. Yeah. That's wild. A long lineage.

• 31:12Jason Bateman?

  All right. So when you then when you get to Hollywood, is there is there a safety net? Do you come with a bag of money? Do you have an agent ready?

• 31:19Speaker 03

  There's an Aussie mafia ready made for you.

• 31:22Jason Bateman?

  Yes.

• 31:22Speaker 03

  It uh, yeah, it's no, like truly, it's like being on Ramsey Street, which is like the street in the show. It was like just being in Ramsey on Ramsey Street again, but in America.

• 31:31Jason Bateman?

  All right. So who's taking care of you?

• 31:32Speaker 03

  You, well, your your fellow Aussies that have been on soaps as well and you sleep on their couches and everyone like shares info of like, okay, because by the way, when I moved here, it was sixteen years ago. So I was twenty. I moved five days after I finished on Neighbors. I was quite keen to get here. And yeah, there was no Uber. There was no like, it was a different time. There was pilot season.

• 31:55Jason Bateman?

  You had to learn how to drive on the other side of the road.

• 31:57Speaker 03

  Well, not just it that that wouldn't have been a problem. It was getting a car. You can't actually rent a car till you're twenty one. And I was still twenty. And so I asked the Aussie, you know, like our Aussie mafia, I was like, you know, what do I do if I need to get a car to get around to these auditions? And they're like, okay, I know a guy. And so you'd go to this, the guy, and he would rent you a car kind of off the books or whatever. And then you'd drive around to your auditions and all that.

• 32:20Jason Bateman?

  Russell Crowe's got a little side gig out in Simi Valley.

• 32:26Speaker 03

  Well, I ended up crashing that car on the way. And this was not a guy that you, you know, I didn't get the impression this is a guy that you messed with. But I crashed his car and I was really scared to tell him. Anyways, he took the car off me, obviously. And then I still needed a car to get around to auditions. And I went back to the Aussies and I was like, what do you do when you piss off that guy? Like, is there another guy that you can rent a car from? And they're like, yes, he's called the dodgy Romanian. And I was like, okay. And I rented a car from the dodgy Romanian, as he was called. And it was like this gold colored. Oh, God, I haven't thought about this in years. It was like this gold color, not a Lincoln, but like it looked like it was like a boxy car like from the eighties.

• 33:08Jason Bateman?

  A big one.

• 33:09Speaker 03

  And this, this guy was like, very few words, very, you know, like, here's the keys. Give me the cash. We're not gonna chit chat, just one thing.

• 33:17Jason Bateman?

  We don't have an offensive Romanian accent, Adio?

• 33:20Speaker 03

  No, thank God. It was like, don't open the trunk, ever.

• 33:24Jason Bateman?

  No, come on, really?

• 33:26Speaker 03

  I am not joking, which is I just don't open the trunk. And I was petrified and I, no, I desperately wanted to make it in Hollywood. I'm like, I'm not going on little side quest here to open this trunk and get caught up in whatever is happening here. I am never gonna open this trunk. And anyways, I ended up again crashing in this car.

• 33:46Jason Bateman?

  What's the matter with you?

• 33:47Speaker 03

  I, I, you know what? I was always like doing my makeup and changing on the way to auditions and stuff and not paying. It was, yeah, it was a bit of a chaotic time. Anyways, I crashed in this car and I was panicking. I was like, holy shit, what do I do? There's no, you don't even call insurance. You gotta call the dodgy Romanian and tell him that I've just crashed his car and he might kill me, I suppose. And so I called him and he's like, where are you? And I was like, I gave him the address. I was somewhere in Venice, I think, and it was like nighttime. And he was like, I'm coming to you. And I was like, oh, God, no.

• 34:18Jason Bateman?

  Oh, God.

• 34:19Speaker 03

  And he, he rocked up with an associate and they got out of the car and

• 34:23Jason Bateman?

  They go to the trunk.

• 34:24Speaker 03

  He looked at, he looked at the damage and he was like, okay. And I was like waiting to, I don't know, be executed. And he was like, um, did you open the trunk? And I was like, no, never. Like, I ne- literally never.

• 34:35Jason Bateman?

  How dare you?

• 34:35Speaker 03

  And he goes, okay. And he just took the keys and he drove away.

• 34:39Jason Bateman?

  No way.

• 34:39Speaker 03

  And I never saw him again. I never got a bill for the damage to the car, nothing.

• 34:44Jason Bateman?

  Truly.

• 34:45Speaker 03

  Oh my god. Just. Wow.

• 34:48Sean Hayes?

  And, and, and did you?

• 34:49Speaker 03

  And I still to this day, I don't know what was in the trunk. Wow, what was in there?

• 34:52Will Arnett?

  What was in there?

• 34:53Speaker 03

  Just some cash, just loose cash. That'd be nice. You know, that you can't deposit.

• 34:57Will Arnett?

  Just junk, it might have just been junk in the trunk.

• 35:00Sean Hayes?

  Oh god.

• 35:01Speaker 03

  Oh nice.

• 35:02Sean Hayes?

  Did you, junk in the trunk. Um, did you get to use the car enough to go to plenty of audition? Like, did you get use out of the car before you crashed there or got in the accident?

• 35:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, dude, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 35:10Sean Hayes?

  So, yeah.

• 35:11Speaker 03

  I had a good couple of weeks.

• 35:12Will Arnett?

  So what was, so you come to America, let's, let's, America, what was the thing? What was the first American?

• 35:19Sean Hayes?

  Pan Am.

• 35:19Will Arnett?

  Gig?

• 35:20Speaker 03

  Was it Pan Am? Yeah, Pan Am was a, yeah. Pan Am, remember that series? And at the time, that was like, it was a TV show about Pan Am.

• 35:26Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's right.

• 35:27Speaker 03

  Studios in the sixties. It was a big, it was a big.

• 35:29Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's right, I remember that.

• 35:31Speaker 03

  Good looking show. Yeah, it was, it was, I think at the time, it was the most someone had spent on a pilot before. Yes. They spent like ten million dollars on the pilot or something like that.

• 35:39Sean Hayes?

  Doesn't seem like it's that long ago.

• 35:41Speaker 03

  I know, and, and that also now seems like a small budget for like a pilot. But, uh, yeah, it was a big deal and I, I, I had a role in that. So that was my first job. So I was, I then moved to New York because we shot that, um, in, at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn. So then I was living in New York for a year. Was that your first? And my roommate was Christina Ricci and, uh, No way. He was also on the show, yeah. No way. So I've gone from being in Australia, like, never having, you know, met a single famous person or seen a movie set or whatever to, yeah, living in the big cities. And then was this your first time in New York? Yes, oh my god. And what'd you think of that? I suddenly, I, I couldn't comprehend how much of a city it was.

• 36:21Speaker 03

  The thing is, where I grew up on the Gold Coast, like I mentioned, but my family's all from like inland Queensland, like the farms, right? And so I had grown up thinking I was a city kid and I thought the Gold Coast was like the big smoke. And they'd always call me a city kid because, you know, I was on the Gold Coast. Then I moved to Melbourne for Neighbours and I was like, whoa, okay, this is a city. I was like, oh my god, I can't believe I thought I was a city kid. I've never been to a city, Melbourne is a city, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen. And then I got to New York and I was like, okay, I don't even know anymore. This is a different level. This is a city. Yeah, I loved it. I had the best.

• 36:57Jason Bateman?

  So exciting though.

• 36:58Speaker 03

  Best, best time. Oh my god.

• 37:00Will Arnett?

  So you do, so you do Pan Am and then that, that sort of runs its course and then what? You're sort of left wondering what's gonna happen now or was it just offers flooding in?

• 37:11Speaker 03

  No, they didn't pick up the back nine. So we kind of had an inkling that we weren't gonna go to a season two.

• 37:17Jason Bateman?

  It's my job.

• 37:18Speaker 03

  And then I started auditioning at that point. I auditioned for Richard Curtis's film About Time, which I ended up getting a small role in. And then I also, like everyone else, I auditioned for The Wolf of Wall Street. So I sent in a self tape for that and I ended up getting that and that was my first American film.

• 37:41Will Arnett?

  Wait, so you sent in a self tape for Wolf of Wall Street?

• 37:45Jason Bateman?

  So how long was that process? Was that maybe two, two or three auditions before you got to Scorsese and Leo?

• 37:52Speaker 03

  No, no, I went from the tape to being in the room with Marty and Leo.

• 37:56Jason Bateman?

  Christ.

• 37:57Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 37:58Speaker 03

  It was, it was, there was no in between. I, I don't know how it happened like that because everyone I knew was sending in a tape, like everyone. So I never, I never thought Martin Scorsese was gonna see the tape. I just was hoping that Ellen Lewis, the casting director, was gonna see the tape. And, and, you know, I sent it in. I didn't hear back anything until I got the call saying you're gonna read in the room with Marty.

• 38:21Will Arnett?

  How long was that? How long was that gap from the time?

• 38:22Speaker 03

  It was quite a while. Like it was, like, I can't remember.

• 38:25Jason Bateman?

  Like you'd forgotten about it almost.

• 38:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you know, like, I don't know, maybe five weeks or something. I don't know. I, I get the feeling that maybe I was a bit of a wild card option. Cause they, I think they had a couple of actresses read in the room with Marty and Leo. To do a chemistry read sort of situation.

• 38:41Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 38:41Speaker 03

  I don't know, maybe I was like the wild card where they're like, I don't know, throw her in. I have no idea.

• 38:45Will Arnett?

  You get a call from your agent, you're like, hey, guess what? That tape you sent in, you're gonna go meet Martin Scorsese.

• 38:52Speaker 03

  Well, no, they they said you're gonna go meet with Marty. And I didn't know who Marty was. I was like, Marty? And they're like, Marty is what people call Martin Scorsese.

• 39:01Will Arnett?

  That's Romanian.

• 39:02Jason Bateman?

  Dodgy Romanian.

• 39:03Will Arnett?

  So you're gonna go meet with Marty and Leo? And you're gonna read with Leo for Marty? I mean, did they make you feel comfortable or were you nervous?

• 39:11Speaker 03

  They did. They did. And they gave me the role in the room as well.

• 39:14Will Arnett?

  No.

• 39:15Jason Bateman?

  Oh, that's great.

• 39:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, so the whole thing was great.

• 39:17Will Arnett?

  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Walk us through that.

• 39:19Jason Bateman?

  Is it true that you improvise a slap on Leo?

• 39:24Speaker 03

  It is true. It is true. And thank Christ that worked out. Because that could have gone a different way.

• 39:29Will Arnett?

  Okay, walk us through that.

• 39:30Speaker 03

  Okay, so the way that day went, I walk in. I walk in, first I go to Ellen Lewis's office to like have a quick pre-chat with her.

• 39:37Jason Bateman?

  The great Ellen Lewis.

• 39:38Speaker 03

  And she takes one look at what I'm wearing and she was like, no, no, no, no, no. Like, she was like, you're gonna go back downstairs. I think I was wearing like, you know, my like boots and like jeans and like a, I don't know, long sleeve shirt or something. And she was like, absolutely not. You're gonna go downstairs. You're gonna walk that way and you're gonna walk into a place called Soho. There's lots of shops and you're gonna find a tight dress and the highest heels you can find. And then you're gonna come back. And I was like, okay. And so I went and did that and I came back in a new outfit. And and then I, you know, went to the to the, you know, the audition room thing. And Marty and Leo were in there and it was quite surreal. And we started doing the first scene.

• 40:20Speaker 03

  And I had just, you know, I'd been on a soap where you have to, you do like 60 pages a day and you have to be word perfect. Because it's multi-cams, they're switching. They're essentially editing as you do the scene. You know, like, you are word perfect. So I start doing the scene. And it was all right and whatever, but Leo was like throwing in ad libs and improvising. And I'd never ever improvised before. I'd never seen another actor improvise before. So I was a bit thrown. I was like, whoa, that's not in the script. Wait, what's he doing? Okay. And I was like, oh, my gosh. He doesn't know his lines. He's like, Leo doesn't know his lines. I was like, wow, he's improvising. Okay, shit. Um, and, and so I thought, okay, I didn't do very good in that scene, I think, because I was, you know, playing catch up a little bit.

• 41:04Speaker 03

  And I thought, oh, God, I'm getting thrown out of this room in like thirty seconds. Like, I've got thirty seconds to make an impression. Because we are like, this is not impressive so far. And so I was like, okay, forget the lines, just go off script. And just, I just thought, I'm just gonna use like every swear word I know. And so they were like, action. And I just like started, because also Leo can go, you know, like if you don't get in there, he'll just keep going. And like, he can do the scene without you sort of thing. So it's either like, get yourself in there or you're like, you know, he can do. And you're in a Brooklyn accent for this? Yeah, Brooklyn accent, which is actually easier for an Aussie because we don't do, you know, we don't hit our R's like that. Um, so yeah, and then so I just started like, I jumped in quick. I was like, blah, blah, blah, and started screaming or whatever.

• 41:48Speaker 03

  And so I was like, okay, great. So we're doing this scene and now there's a bit of energy in the room and it's feeling good. And I was like, okay, great. You know, and then there was the last scene, third scene to do, which ends in a line of now get over here and kiss me. And then it's the end of the scene. And so we end up, you know, I was, I think, feeling a little buzzed that I did well in the second scene. So by I was, you know, a little more bolshy in this third scene. And we get to the end and it's like, okay, now get over here and kiss me. And I thought to myself, wow, I could, I could kiss Leonardo DiCaprio right now. Like, that would be so cool. I could tell all my girlfriends back home that that happened. That'd be like a life experience. And I was like, walking towards him slowly, having this thought of like, maybe I just do it, like, fuck it.

• 42:29Speaker 03

  And then I got close and I was like, nah, this character wouldn't do that. And I just went whack and slapped him instead. That's amazing.

• 42:37Speaker 03

  Dead silence, like you could hear a pin drop and I was like, oh my god, what have I just done? I'm gonna get arrested. I like, that's, I think that's, you know, battery or like assault of some kind, like, can I be sued? Do I go to jail for this? And then he and Marty just burst out laughing and then like, that was amazing.

• 42:55Jason Bateman?

  And then they said, you've got the job right there?

• 42:57Speaker 03

  And they said, do that again, let's do the scene again, do more improv, do that again. And, and anyway, so we workshopped the scenes for a little bit and then I, you know, said, thank you and I walked out of the room and I got in the elevator and I like took my heels off and I like did that like, like little silent jig dance to yourself like, oh my gosh, that was so fun, I can't believe that just happened. And just as the elevator doors were about to close, Ellen Lewis was like, wait, come back into the room for one second. I was like, oh, okay. And I walked back in, my heels still in my hands and, um, and they were standing there like just smiling and I was like, what's up? And they were like, and Marty just, oh, Marty just held out his hands like this and goes, would like to offer you the role. And then gave me the biggest hug and it was just, it was so incredible.

• 43:41Jason Bateman?

  That's amazing. Did they ever make the movie? Yeah, did they end up making, did they end up making the movie? Sean wants to know?

• 43:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, they got that one off the ground.

• 43:51Jason Bateman?

  Well, now, okay, so that was the amazing story. Thank you for sharing that. Yeah, that was really cool. The film is stunning, your work in it is stunning. Um, it, it was so well received. Did, uh, did things, I mean, a, a massive change for you in your life, um, once that comes out, um, was that, was that a, a comfortable thing? I mean, something you've been working for, for a long time. This was a bigger step than you probably imagined happening. Were you able to kind of like step up to it and, and, and, and hit it in stride? Or, or was it a bit of an adjustment?

• 44:29Speaker 03

  Well, you know how it goes. It's like you make a movie and then it doesn't come out for a year. So your life kind of goes on for a year and I, I didn't, it didn't occur to me that it. I would, do you know what, I just didn't know I was gonna be in the movie as much as I ended up being in it. I thought.

• 44:43Will Arnett?

  Oh, really?

• 44:43Speaker 03

  The set was so crazy and so much improvisation and so much like, every day it was like, we were like writing scenes the night before, like. My whole end sequence in that movie, we wrote like the night before in a room at like three A M. We're like. It was meant to be just a scene where my character comes in and says, I want a divorce and she puts some papers down. That's kind of it. And then we ended up kind of being like, ah, we need something more. And we workshop this whole thing, that whole sequence. So. By the nature of the filming process, I thought, you know, there's a lot of experimenting going on, a lot of improv going on. Like, I'm sure most of this isn't gonna make the cut. So I thought, I wonder how much I'll be in this movie. And I didn't see it till the night before the premiere, so I had no idea.

• 45:20Will Arnett?

  Oh, no.

• 45:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, and then, uh, so I didn't really prepare for it. And I thought, oh, I'll, I'll be like, you know, blink and you'll miss me sort of thing. Like, I'll be in and out. Like, I, I just didn't think anyone was gonna pay attention to me in that movie at all. So I wasn't.

• 45:31Will Arnett?

  Huge cast.

• 45:32Speaker 03

  I wasn't really, I wasn't, yeah, I mean, you've got Jonah Hill doing like the most incredible stuff. Everyone, like, the cameos are endless. Like, every day you'd come into work and people would be like, Matthew McConaughey is here today, or like, you know, whatever. So, so, yeah, it just felt like I was. Well, one, one blip amongst a big canvas of, of, you know, chaos. And so. I, I, yeah, I didn't really brace myself for how, how things would change after that. And I'd already done a bunch of jobs in between.

• 45:56Will Arnett?

  Sure.

• 45:56Speaker 03

  You know, cause I had a year. So, so, yeah, I don't know. Life, yeah, life got weird pretty quickly.

• 46:01Will Arnett?

  Yeah, but then you go and you see it and you're like, wow, this is, I mean.

• 46:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, no, really, I was thinking, I was like, oh, shit, my family is about to see this. Oh, no, no. I organized a friends and family screening and I like. Sat, sat down and the credits started and I suddenly was like, oh, my God, I'm like. Naked and I'm fully naked and they're all about to see it. And I mean, there's scenes where we're like having sex on a bed of cash, like. My brother is right next to me, like, oh, no. I was like, this is gonna be the most, this is the most uncomfortable thing ever. I never forget at the end of that screening, I think my family were all a little bit stunned and like, didn't know what to say, but felt like they. Felt like they should say congrats or something. They were like, and, and my older brother.

• 46:49Speaker 03

  He was like quite a blokey bloke, you know, quite an Aussie bloke. He was just like, uh, uh, hmm, like couldn't find the words. And I was like, you know what? Uh, we don't have to talk for a while. And he goes, great. And just like, kind of gave me a hit on the back and then walked out. And we didn't talk for like months after that. And then when we did, we never mentioned it again. We're like, let's never talk about that.

• 47:11Sean Hayes?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 47:12Will Arnett?

  All right. How soon after that did you get pulled into the DC Universe with Harley Quinn?

• 47:17Speaker 03

  Gosh, that must have been.

• 47:19Sean Hayes?

  My gosh, that's right. Harley Quinn.

• 47:20Speaker 03

  Okay, so Wolf of Wall Street, 2012.

• 47:23Will Arnett?

  Okay, you did the movie before that. You did the movie with, what's that great one you did with Will Smith?

• 47:27Speaker 03

  Focus.

• 47:28Will Arnett?

  Oh, I love that movie.

• 47:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's so fun, isn't it?

• 47:31Will Arnett?

  It's a great movie. You're, you're so good in that movie.

• 47:34Speaker 03

  Thank you. That was, that was so fun. Yeah, it must have been right after, it must have been after Focus. Cause Will and I had already done that movie and then we worked together again in, in the first Suicide Squad.

• 47:44Will Arnett?

  And then where was I, Tanya? In all this?

• 47:46Speaker 03

  I, Tanya was after that.

• 47:49Will Arnett?

  Off, after Harley Quinn?

• 47:50Speaker 03

  2017 is when I, Tanya, either we filmed it or it came out in 2017. I think it came out in 2017 and we.

• 47:57Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that movie was so great. Your performances, I mean, everybody talk, you're probably so sick of talking about the one scene where they just ho- hold on you in the mirror.

• 48:05Speaker 03

  No, I, I loved, I, cause that again, that was like an in the moment thing where, I don't know, we were set up and.

• 48:11Will Arnett?

  Craig Gillespie, right?

• 48:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, Craig, who's the best, also an Aussie. But yeah, I was kind of like, I was like, let me try something for a second. It might be lame, but let me try.

• 48:20Sean Hayes?

  Oh, my God, it was so powerful. That was incredible.

• 48:22Speaker 03

  Afterwards, he, and I was like, was that too weird? And he was like, kind of like really still and he's never still. He's like, he is fast. Like you think, I thought shooting neighbors, but he is fast. Anyways, and he was like very still and he was like, that was something. And I was like, okay, cool. Do you want me to do, and he's like, don't do anything else. Let's move on. And I was like.

• 48:41Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow.

• 48:41Will Arnett?

  What a great feeling. Oh, that's the best, that's the best feeling.

• 48:45Speaker 03

  It was the best. You know that feeling where you're like, ooh, something electric just happened, something, I don't know. Maybe it's nothing, but maybe it's, maybe it ends up being a thing that cool guys bring up on a podcast years from now.

• 48:57Will Arnett?

  At what, at what point? Still waiting for those cool guys, I guess.

• 49:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, where are they? When did they join?

• 49:05Will Arnett?

  And we will be right back.

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• 52:02Sean Hayes?

  And back to the show.

• 52:05Jason Bateman?

  At what point did you start thinking, "God, I would love to parlay some of this, you know, great access and position in the community into producing as well"? Because you're such an accomplished producer. Your company Lucky Chap-

• 52:22Speaker 03

  Thank you. Well, Isonia was the first thing that we produced that came- Well, it was actually the second movie we produced, but the first one that came out. So it was kind of kicked things off really nicely. I started, we started talking about the production company in 2013, so the year after Wolf of Wall Street. So after Wolf of Wall Street, before it had come out, I went off to Belgium to shoot this movie called Sweet Frances, which I've actually never seen. And I met my two producer partners, one of whom I'm now married to. So Josie and Tom were second and third AD on that job, and we all became friends on that job. Yeah, Wolf of Wall Street wasn't out yet, so that must have been 20. Anyways, whatever, very early on. And that's when we talked about starting a production company. And we started the company the following year.

• 53:06Speaker 03

  And yeah, so it's, yeah, we've had it for like- Eleven years now.

• 53:10Jason Bateman?

  I love that you work with your husband. I just think that's great. My wife and I are working together a bit now and it's just, it's just so, I just love it.

• 53:19Will Arnett?

  Oh, you love it? Okay, sorry. I didn't know which way you were gonna go with that. And the look on your face. You got kinda lost a little.

• 53:26Jason Bateman?

  Now, I'd love to get my spouse to play golf, too. You're Tom, Tom can swing a golf club.

• 53:33Speaker 03

  He has tried to make me play golf so many times.

• 53:36Jason Bateman?

  No, don't bother. I'm gonna play with him.

• 53:38Speaker 03

  Oh, please, please.

• 53:40Jason Bateman?

  Big golf buddies. Willie, he's coming on up.

• 53:43Will Arnett?

  Oh, is that right?

• 53:44Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 53:45Will Arnett?

  Okay, oh, good.

• 53:46Jason Bateman?

  Tom on the board.

• 53:47Speaker 03

  Are you all golfers together? Are you all gonna be golfing together? This is adorable. I love it. He, um, yeah, I mean, he's obsessed with golf. Like, I feel like every dude I know turned thirty and suddenly overnight was obsessed with golf. Like, I was like, I've never heard any of you talk about golf.

• 54:03Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 54:03Speaker 03

  And they all seem to hate it and themselves so much, but wanna do it all the time. It's such a weird, it seems to be a very toxic relationship.

• 54:13Jason Bateman?

  It is. It is a love-hate thing. It's just an incredibly challenging thing that is hard to ignore.

• 54:18Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 54:18Speaker 03

  It perplexes me. It really does. It really perplexes me. And I'm also like, you can love this thing without me. Like, go, this can be a thing that I don't need to play golf.

• 54:26Jason Bateman?

  I'm gonna set you up with my wife.

• 54:28Will Arnett?

  That is so, yeah, yeah. Amanda needs to hear that. Let's clip that for Amanda.

• 54:32Jason Bateman?

  I'm speaking of...

• 54:33Will Arnett?

  Bennett, will you clip that for Amanda? Thank you.

• 54:37Sean Hayes?

  Marco, speaking of golf, I just had lunch two weeks ago, three weeks ago, on a golf course with Inan Kreis.

• 54:48Speaker 03

  Oh, no way!

• 54:49Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, who is the CEO...

• 54:50Speaker 03

  The real-life CEO of Mattel.

• 54:51Sean Hayes?

  This real-life CEO of Mattel. And we were talking about you and we were talking about Barbie, of course. And I'm like, how did that come? And he's like, he told me, because he's such a great guy. He's like, this is the pitch. Margot, Robbie, Barbie. That was the pitch.

• 55:08Jason Bateman?

  What's that got to do with golf?

• 55:09Sean Hayes?

  Really? No, because we were having lunch on the golf course.

• 55:12Jason Bateman?

  What golf course?

• 55:13Sean Hayes?

  Will, which golf course was I at?

• 55:16Jason Bateman?

  Remember that when you called me, I was like,

• 55:18Will Arnett?

  Hillcrest.

• 55:18Speaker 03

  I was about to say, do you want me to start rattling them off? I hate that I know them all, but.

• 55:22Jason Bateman?

  Because that's where he wanted to have lunch.

• 55:24Sean Hayes?

  No.

• 55:24Will Arnett?

  Jason, why are you getting bogged down in the details?

• 55:26Jason Bateman?

  I need to understand, how does Sean Hayes end up at Hillcrest?

• 55:30Sean Hayes?

  Well, I got a pass.

• 55:31Will Arnett?

  What is with the look on your face? Why are you so mad at him?

• 55:34Jason Bateman?

  Who has lunch at Hillcrest unless you're making the timer?

• 55:36Speaker 03

  Are you mad? Are you not allowed at Hillcrest?

• 55:38Sean Hayes?

  No, a friend of ours set us up as just to have lunch. You guys would have a good time, so we had a good time. And I talked to him and he's, look at his face.

• 55:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, people can only hear this. You can't see Jason's face right now. It is.

• 55:50Will Arnett?

  So bewildered.

• 55:51Sean Hayes?

  And by the way, it's beautiful. It's gorgeous there.

• 55:54Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's hard to get out there. You just have your sandwich out there.

• 55:59Will Arnett?

  He's so mad.

• 56:01Sean Hayes?

  Anyway, Inan spoke very highly of you. He's such a good guy. And when he told me the pitch was just you and Barbie, that's where it started. And then, and then everything else just kind of snowballed from there, which is incredible.

• 56:13Jason Bateman?

  So we're gonna fly over Quentin Tarantino in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and we're gonna go right to Barbie.

• 56:18Speaker 03

  Right to Barbie.

• 56:19Sean Hayes?

  Well, wait, well, let's back up. You don't have to talk about Barbie. I just thought, what a coincidence you're here. And I had lunch with Inan and it was great.

• 56:25Will Arnett?

  No, he made the golf match. That's fair enough. That's a very good, that's very.

• 56:28Sean Hayes?

  We will allow.

• 56:29Will Arnett?

  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is such a, what a film.

• 56:33Speaker 03

  It's a great film, isn't it?

• 56:34Will Arnett?

  What a film.

• 56:36Jason Bateman?

  Now, is being on a set with Quentin as exciting as it seems?

• 56:39Speaker 03

  Yes, yes, yes, yes. It is everything. I'm a huge Tarantino fan and it is, so I've read, like, you know, all the folklore around making a movie with Quentin, like, he doesn't allow phones on set and da, da, da, da, da. It's all true and it's everything you'd want it to be and more. It was just the best.

• 56:57Jason Bateman?

  That's awesome, awesome, awesome film. I so love that. I still can't believe, like, remember when that, I think, was it Cannes where it first was, was shown?

• 57:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 57:06Jason Bateman?

  And he made some declaration to the press in, in, like, a really cool way saying, listen, I know some directors say, you know, please watch the spoilers when you write these reviews and everything, but he like made this like real like, but I'm serious. Please try not to reveal the ending to everyone, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I remember reading that and going, okay, this is never gonna last. Somebody is going to, but I remember that I made it to watching the movie, which was months later, without ever hearing what the ending was about, and was so excited by the reveal of what that ending was and fucking loved the way that thing all wraps up. Uh, I just, what a film.

• 57:46Speaker 03

  I know. Isn't that amazing that no one spoiled that? It was.

• 57:49Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I couldn't.

• 57:50Speaker 03

  Cause that was, that was like a separate part of the script that only a few of us were allowed to even have. And so like the crew didn't have, like, it was kept so under lock and key, cause you really wanted to preserve that. And, um, and it's so impactful when you get to the end of the movie and you're like, holy shit, Sharon's alive. Wait, this means Sharon Tate lives. Like this is such a great alternate universe. But I, uh, you know, knowing how secret he wanted everything to be, I, I never breathed a word of how it ended. And at Cannes, I brought my mom to watch the movie and, uh, I asked her afterwards, you know, we're all clapping and I was like, what did you think? And she, she goes, honestly, I have been dreading watching this movie because I did not wanna see my daughter be killed in the way, in that way, like in a no Tarantino

• 58:35Speaker 03

  movie, so violent. And like, she was like, I know, and I didn't wanna, you know, burst your bubble, cause you, you know, clearly so excited about this, but like, I've been dreading it. And she was like, I didn't know. Anyway, so Quentin was looking at me, he's like, he's like, did your mom like the movie? And I was like, oh, she was upset, cause she thought she was about to see me die. And he's like, you didn't tell your mom you don't die? And I was like, no, you told me not to tell anyone the ending of this movie. I didn't tell anyone. He was like, well, at least tell your mom. And I'm like, oh no, like, I didn't tell my husband, I didn't tell my mom, I didn't tell anyone how this movie ended. So yeah, we were all in on keeping it, keeping it secret.

• 59:07Jason Bateman?

  All right. So, all right. So Barbie, the, the, the behemoth of Barbie, it comes into your world. Um, in, in, in sort of a typical way, like kind of through the regular sort of channels? Or is it something that you pursued?

• 59:20Speaker 03

  No, not really. I mean, we, no, we pursued it like as, as the company, as Lucky Chap, we went after it. We, we knew that the agreement over, you know, it was set up already.

• 59:29Jason Bateman?

  Sony.

• 59:30Speaker 03

  Over at Sony, there had been versions of it, et cetera, et cetera. And then their, their time was kind of up.

• 59:35Will Arnett?

  Deadline Hollywood, the way he knows the deal of how.

• 59:36Jason Bateman?

  Hey, Amy Schumer, you know, blah, blah, blah.

• 59:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 59:39Will Arnett?

  He was in turn for a while and he knows, he knows the deal.

• 59:42Jason Bateman?

  Bunch of money against it and then.

• 59:44Speaker 03

  Exactly. And but there was, there was, you know, like the, they had to re kind of re up the deal sort of thing. And so that was the opportunity to get in there and say, can we, can we take it? And so we kind of made our pitch to Enon, Sean's friend. So we made it the pitch to him. We're like, let Lucky Chap produce this. Let us have this. We'll set it up at Warner Brothers. So there's no chain of titles issue with whatever they've previously developed at Sony.

• 1:00:09Jason Bateman?

  This is before Greta and, and Noah?

• 1:00:11Speaker 03

  Yeah. Before Greta and Noah. So it was just, just us.

• 1:00:14Jason Bateman?

  So then your take then was, you're sorry to interrupt, but your take was, because the, the reason it's sort of, it is relevant and interesting that it had this life beforehand was that obviously the version at Sony with Amy would be wildly different than, than what you guys were doing. Because think about it, like that's what the Mattel, you know, they've got all this great, you know, IP and they're just like games or, or in this, you know, action figure. And it's like, how do you come up with a movie about that? You have to have a take. Like, what's the angle going to be? What's it going to be about? And with Barbie, there's, it's so loaded to like, you can have a, a, a cultural reference to it, some sort of societal comment, all this stuff. So what was your take? So this is before

• 1:00:58Jason Bateman?

  you had the writer and the director. Did you have a clear idea about what you wanted to say with this? And then that informed where you looked for a writer and a director?

• 1:01:08Speaker 03

  To be honest, the first hurdle was getting them to let us have it.

• 1:01:12Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 1:01:12Speaker 03

  And so really those first conversations were about making sure Enon and Mattel knew that we would protect the brand and take care of it, but also do something meaningful with it. And we did, we were quite honest in that first meeting of like. If we're doing a Barbie movie, we're gonna be saying something and it has to be culturally relevant and this has to be elevated and cinematic and all the things like it's but but do understand like we we're gonna be making comments with the movie sort of thing. So you obviously we'll do that with someone who's very smart. Like I I did pitch Greta in the meeting. I was like, you know, like a Greta Gerwig.

• 1:01:48Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:48Speaker 03

  Um, who I had spoken to previously about other films and stuff and she I think at the time was filming Little Women, but she had done Lady Bird. Anyways, um, and and so, yeah. So first step one really was just like letting them know that we would, we understood how important this property is to them, that we would, you know, be good partners to them and and um, and then and then also like, yeah, then it was setting up the studio and then it was going after Greta and being like, do you wanna do a Barbie movie? And and then it was about what her take was really. It was it was never me being like, I have a take. Do you wanna do this? It was like, I trust you to have some, I bet you have something to say. What would you wanna say with a Barbie movie with me?

• 1:02:29Will Arnett?

  Oh, exciting.

• 1:02:30Speaker 03

  And then it kinda went from there and her and Noah, their writing process is fascinating, but you don't, they don't really like plot out. They don't outline a whole thing and then send in an outline. You know what you're gonna get. They they they don't really know how it's gonna end. They write as they go. They write themselves in corners. They write themselves out of corners. So getting the studio and Mattel to sign off on the movie and get them paid to commence, because then it was COVID too. And I was like, they need to be writing right now. They and they were like, well, what's the movie?

• 1:02:57Will Arnett?

  Beginning, middle and end.

• 1:02:58Speaker 03

  Yeah. And then everyone's feeling very protective over this thing and wanna know what it is and what they're paying for and all that kinda stuff. It was, yeah, it was kinda, yeah, I think it was probably the best bit of producing we ever did was getting getting that whole, all those deals, treatment deals, that, you know, no approval over the script, but approval over the treatment, all this kinda stuff so that they.

• 1:03:18Will Arnett?

  You gotta do, you gotta convince a lot of people that sort of like, just trust us. Just trust us.

• 1:03:22Speaker 03

  It was completely just trust us and also leave them alone. Like you cannot, they're not gonna get on the phone with you and tell that they're not gonna pitch you. Like you, we have to leave them alone. That's their process.

• 1:03:32Jason Bateman?

  It says a lot about Mattel and Warner Brothers for for taking that that risk and like, that's a lot of courage. It's so great that it worked out so well for them.

• 1:03:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:03:40Sean Hayes?

  I mean, huge. I mean, the the I I ask the dumb questions if you haven't picked up on that yet. So will there be a sequel?

• 1:03:48Speaker 03

  Well, there could be.

• 1:03:50Jason Bateman?

  Does that mean, why wouldn't there be?

• 1:03:51Speaker 03

  But Greta's been, I mean, I'm, I'm open. There's no plans at the moment, but I'm open to it. I'm open to anything with Greta, to be honest, but she's been doing Narnia.

• 1:04:00Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow. I can't wait for that.

• 1:04:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, she's, she's been like really intensely into. Do you know, I love them too. Have you read, have you ever read a book series called The Magicians? It's like this like grown up dark Narnia version of Narnia.

• 1:04:17Jason Bateman?

  No, but I will.

• 1:04:18Speaker 03

  It's so good.

• 1:04:18Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:19Will Arnett?

  No, tell Sean what channel it's on and he'll watch it.

• 1:04:23Jason Bateman?

  Books, they're books. Wait, The Magicians?

• 1:04:26Will Arnett?

  No.

• 1:04:26Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow. Is it, is it, is it the same tone as the Narnia books?

• 1:04:29Speaker 03

  It's, well, it just, it's like, I love fantasy books. I read a lot of fantasy and it's a really good, oh, good. Well, then check them out. I mean, it's just, but it's got, it's very much seeped in like Narnia lore, which I, which I.

• 1:04:40Jason Bateman?

  Why don't you, why doesn't your production company option those books?

• 1:04:44Speaker 03

  Well, actually, if I'm going to option anything, I, I read a lot of, like I said, a lot of fantasy, but I, I read a lot of romanticy books as well. Um, so.

• 1:04:53Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 1:04:54Speaker 03

  Since our, our brand is very like female focused, there's some other romanticy books that I'd rather go after.

• 1:04:59Jason Bateman?

  Well, that's getting us right to Wuthering Heights.

• 1:05:02Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:03Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. With the divine Jacob Elordi. Uh, what a nice guy. Just met him the other day. What a really, really.

• 1:05:10Will Arnett?

  Nice kid.

• 1:05:11Sean Hayes?

  And by the way, sidebar, we just had Charlie XCX on and she did, she did the music for it.

• 1:05:16Speaker 03

  She did a whole album. She did an entire album. Yeah. Her whole album is called.

• 1:05:21Sean Hayes?

  For Wuthering Heights.

• 1:05:22Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:05:23Jason Bateman?

  And another collaboration with you and Emerald Fennell, yes?

• 1:05:27Speaker 03

  Third film together. So we produced Promising Young Woman, then Saltburn, and now this is her third film and our third film together.

• 1:05:33Jason Bateman?

  She's only been in the States for 16 years. Look at all of this.

• 1:05:37Sean Hayes?

  I know, it's amazing.

• 1:05:39Jason Bateman?

  It's so great.

• 1:05:40Will Arnett?

  It is great.

• 1:05:41Jason Bateman?

  So Wuthering Heights, you're a, you're, you're a big softie with the romance stuff. Was this, did this, did this come?

• 1:05:47Will Arnett?

  It's the ultimate romance. It's the ultimate, yeah.

• 1:05:49Speaker 03

  It's much like your relationship with golf. It's, it's like, you're like, you just can't, you can't help it, even though it's destroying you on some level.

• 1:05:59Will Arnett?

  Thank you for putting it in a context that we can understand. Thank you.

• 1:06:01Jason Bateman?

  I'm currently in a divorce with golf right now. I'm, I'm, I'm working.

• 1:06:05Will Arnett?

  I'm on a break.

• 1:06:06Jason Bateman?

  I'm dedicated to my life right now. Um, but, um, but, okay. So did now, now, uh, you've, you've, you've seen the film.

• 1:06:14Speaker 03

  Many times, yes.

• 1:06:16Jason Bateman?

  Do you cry every time?

• 1:06:17Speaker 03

  Every time. I have never watched it and not cried.

• 1:06:20Jason Bateman?

  This is so great.

• 1:06:21Speaker 03

  And I, and like it's, it's, yeah, it's so good. I mean, it's just, I'm so excited that everyone's about to see it because it's incredible.

• 1:06:31Jason Bateman?

  It's coming out on Valentine's Day, right?

• 1:06:34Speaker 03

  Perfect Valentine's, Valentine's plan. Yeah, if you don't have plans.

• 1:06:38Will Arnett?

  Friday, February 13th.

• 1:06:39Jason Bateman?

  It did come out three days ago.

• 1:06:41Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:42Jason Bateman?

  Because it's February 16th today.

• 1:06:43Will Arnett?

  It's out now.

• 1:06:44Speaker 03

  It's February 16th today? Okay, guys, if you haven't seen it yet.

• 1:06:48Jason Bateman?

  I apologize.

• 1:06:50Speaker 03

  Okay, so does that mean, is it the Monday? Is it the public holiday today? Okay, you've got time. Go to the movies right now.

• 1:06:56Jason Bateman?

  As soon as I slap this laptop down, I'm going.

• 1:06:59Will Arnett?

  Yes, President's Day weekend. It's President's Day, it's Valentine's, it's a big weekend. Go out and see it today.

• 1:07:06Speaker 03

  Today, go see it. It's, it's just an incredible film. Like, it really, really is, and it's so moving and evocative and provocative at times, but it's, I don't know, I, I really think it's gonna make people feel.

• 1:07:21Jason Bateman?

  And then, and what about, what, did you, because it's, chemistry with an, with an actor is, is, is so vital, especially, I would imagine, if you're doing some sort of a romantic film with someone. Did you, did you do some research about, like, did you call around with people that, or you, did you know Jacob from Saltburn already?

• 1:07:44Speaker 03

  So, yeah, I knew him in a kind of like a producer actor dynamic from Saltburn and always thought he was so lovely and so talented. I mean, I was the very, when I read Saltburn, it's the first thing I said. I was like, Jacob Elordi should play Felix. I, I was such a fan of his work from Euphoria back then.

• 1:08:00Jason Bateman?

  So you knew you two would get along and?

• 1:08:02Speaker 03

  Well, we're also from, he's from Brisbane and I'm from the Gold Coast, so we're from like an hour away from each other. We're both Queenslanders. So I, I don't know, I had a feeling, I was like, we're both Queenslanders. We'll get it. We'll be best mates. It'll be great. Yeah.

• 1:08:16Speaker 03

  He's also, he's just so good, and, and I think what really helps is we approach our work in this, in a very similar way.

• 1:08:25Speaker 03

  And I think that really helped. And I think when it comes to chemistry.

• 1:08:27Jason Bateman?

  And how is that?

• 1:08:28Speaker 03

  Well, we're both, we're both very, very like. We take it very seriously. We do a lot of prep. We do a lot of work, you know, like we're both on set with like notebooks and writing and notes and you know, like we're, you know. Yeah, so I don't know. And we were kind of, to be honest, I think we were kind of set up for success because the script was so good. I mean, Emerald's an Oscar winning screenplay writer. The script was unbelievable. We had, you know, then the source material has been, you know, adored for almost two hundred years. Then you've got Emerald's take of it and her writing's incredible and she's plucking out lines and stuff in the book too. And then you've got, you know, some of the industry's best designers, cinematographers,

• 1:09:12Speaker 03

  production designers, costume design, all that kind of stuff. You know, we, we had all the elements.

• 1:09:16Jason Bateman?

  Where'd you shoot it?

• 1:09:17Speaker 03

  Um, we shot in London and then on the, on the moors in Yorkshire.

• 1:09:21Jason Bateman?

  Hmm.

• 1:09:21Speaker 03

  So our series are up there. And so, yeah, I mean, we kind of had it all there and, and it all came together and we get along and it was, yeah, it was just great. It was so great.

• 1:09:32Jason Bateman?

  Oh, I can't wait. I can't wait to see how we guys do that together. I mean, you're, you're, you're so, I'm so taken with you. You seem so charming and warm, as I said, at the, at the beginning, grounding. You're just such a pleasure. I, I've, I've. You're just a farm girl. Yeah. Is, is it, what, what knocks you off, what knocks you off balance? Where, when are you not charming? When are you not, like, what, what, what would Tom tell us is really your kryptonite? Yeah.

• 1:10:00Speaker 03

  When I'm hungry.

• 1:10:02Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:10:02Speaker 03

  You don't, you, I'm not charming when I'm hungry and I'm almost always hungry, to be honest. I get hangry. Yeah. He's, he calls me Dragoon sometimes. He's like, he knows, he's like, I need to feed the dragon, like.

• 1:10:12Jason Bateman?

  Does he cook for you?

• 1:10:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, he's an amazing cook.

• 1:10:15Jason Bateman?

  Is he?

• 1:10:15Speaker 03

  He's not, yeah, he could be a chef. He's so good.

• 1:10:17Jason Bateman?

  Really? I want to know how to cook. God damn it.

• 1:10:20Speaker 03

  He'll, you guys will be golf besties. You can, oh, don't, don't even get me, you think he loves golf. You should, you should see what he does with the big green egg. He's, oh my God.

• 1:10:29Jason Bateman?

  I'll steal him.

• 1:10:30Speaker 03

  It's his, it's his other mistress.

• 1:10:31Jason Bateman?

  Just take him.

• 1:10:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, take him, take him. He'll love it.

• 1:10:34Sean Hayes?

  What's your, what's your, what's your go to, what's your go to meal if you're like, honey, I'm really hungry, I fix my favorite thing, you know what it is, what is it?

• 1:10:41Speaker 03

  To be honest, he can, he can cook a steak better than any restaurant can. Like his, like it's, it's almost ruined getting a steak. Oh, I don't know what he does, but it's magic.

• 1:10:51Will Arnett?

  He does that in the green egg?

• 1:10:52Speaker 03

  He, oh, he, he'll do it. Oh, no, I think he does a bit of a oven slash reverse sear in a skillet pan situation for his steaks, but he can do it on the green egg as well.

• 1:11:02Sean Hayes?

  Somebody made me a hamburger once and put an egg on it with blue cheese. I was like, no, thanks.

• 1:11:06Will Arnett?

  No shit, that's cool, save it for the book.

• 1:11:13Jason Bateman?

  Margot, yeah, this is Margot's time, Sean. Thank you so much for joining us today. I know you've got a lot of press in front of you, I appreciate all the time. And best of luck with the film, we're gonna watch it this afternoon.

• 1:11:31Will Arnett?

  We're all going together.

• 1:11:32Speaker 03

  Are you actually?

• 1:11:34Will Arnett?

  Yeah, we're gonna go to Century City this afternoon.

• 1:11:35Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, oh, yes, of course, it's the 16th, yes, go watch it, go watch it together. You're our core demographic, so enjoy, tell me what you think.

• 1:11:42Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, good, so great meeting you.

• 1:11:44Jason Bateman?

  Thank you for doing this.

• 1:11:45Speaker 03

  No, thank you, good luck with the, with the play as well, Sean.

• 1:11:48Sean Hayes?

  Oh, thank you, honey, thank you so much, so sweet of you. All right, well, hopefully we'll see you soon.

• 1:11:52Speaker 03

  See you soon.

• 1:11:53Jason Bateman?

  Thanks, Margot. Bye, bye.

• 1:12:00Jason Bateman?

  I mean, I need a shower, all the negativity and the gist of the show.

• 1:12:06Will Arnett?

  She is something else, man.

• 1:12:07Sean Hayes?

  She's a, uh, the career, I mean bam, bam, bam, movie, big movie, big movie, big movie, big movie. I mean, she's, and she just got here like five minutes ago. And when she said she was on Pan Am, I felt like that was like five years ago, or was it like 15 years ago?

• 1:12:22Will Arnett?

  But if you just look at like she just so hit the ground running coming here. You know what I mean? And just, and just doing quality things after quality things, always really good in everything she does. And I think that they, what's most, what's almost impossible to get my head around is

• 1:12:41Will Arnett?

  Sean, you parking at Hillcrest and then you go over to the patio to have lunch? Like, are you indoors or outdoors?

• 1:12:48Jason Bateman?

  What is going on? How did you get in there?

• 1:12:50Will Arnett?

  How you got there is just for... Jason will take this to the... for the rest of his days. How you ended up at Hillcrest Country Club?

• 1:12:58Jason Bateman?

  I can play there, but as a guest.

• 1:13:00Sean Hayes?

  Okay, so why? Is it hard to get in?

• 1:13:02Jason Bateman?

  I'm not, I'm not, I'm not like, I can't call in and have a fucking lunch date there. I'm not a member.

• 1:13:06Sean Hayes?

  So you have to be a member to have lunch there?

• 1:13:07Will Arnett?

  I'm so mad.

• 1:13:09Jason Bateman?

  Was the Mattel guy a member there?

• 1:13:11Sean Hayes?

  His name is Inan. Um, no, a friend of ours was, a mutual friend of ours.

• 1:13:15Jason Bateman?

  Not two fucking non-members having a business meeting. Unbelievable. All right, getting back into it. This, this woman, um...

• 1:13:23Will Arnett?

  Yeah, Margot Robbie is something else.

• 1:13:24Jason Bateman?

  An incredible actor, incredible producer, uh, I think would just be at the tip-top of our profession for a very, very long time, as she is now.

• 1:13:34Sean Hayes?

  Right, talented, beautiful, smart, all those things.

• 1:13:36Will Arnett?

  Oh, you have to be one of those, Sean.

• 1:13:38Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I do, just really quick. Out of all the movies that I would have ever guessed made, would make, out of all of her, all of her movies in her, on her resume.

• 1:13:46Jason Bateman?

  Still rolling.

• 1:13:47Sean Hayes?

  All of her movies on her resume, that would have made over a billion dollars? I would have never guessed it would have been...

• 1:13:52Will Arnett?

  Bar-bye.

• 1:13:53Sean Hayes?

  Bar-bye.

• 1:13:55Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, Sean, no, no. Here's, let me explain to you what the bye thing is.

• 1:13:58Will Arnett?

  Why, at least, at least go bye, Tanya.

• 1:14:02Sean Hayes?

  Oh shit, that's better.

• 1:14:04Jason Bateman?

  I just don't think you can, you can't make up a word for it to fit the bye. You have to actually find a legitimate...

• 1:14:10Sean Hayes?

  Bar-bye.

• 1:14:11Jason Bateman?

  Bye.

• 1:14:13Sean Hayes?

  Bar-bye.

• 1:14:14Jason Bateman?

  All right.

• 1:14:14Will Arnett?

  Bye.

• 1:14:15Sean Hayes?

  Bar-bye.

• 1:14:41Jason Bateman?

  Smart. Last.

• 1:14:45Jason Bateman?

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