"Elle Fanning"

Tornado-warning: it’s Elle Fanning. The Number 5, Imagination vs. Reality, the Power, and a real-life baby. We all love each other, blah blah blah… on another gorgeously fresh new epiz of SmartLess.

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

• 0:01Sean Hayes?

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• 0:44Sean Hayes?

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• 1:34Sean Hayes?

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• 2:10Sean Hayes?

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• 2:52Jason Bateman?

  Oh my God, we made it. We made it. I thought we were gonna be late, but here we are.

• 2:57Sean Hayes?

  I didn't have a chance to stop and potty.

• 3:01Jason Bateman?

  Oh, you didn't potty yet?

• 3:02Sean Hayes?

  Wait, we could potty today.

• 3:05Jason Bateman?

  You wanna call this potty-ing?

• 3:07Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 3:07Will Arnett?

  You made us run in here for that?

• 3:09Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, we can call it potty-ing. We're gonna potty.

• 3:12Will Arnett?

  Oh, man.

• 3:12Jason Bateman?

  Welcome to Smartless.

• 3:32Jason Bateman?

  Don't you think we should go on another trip? I do.

• 3:35Sean Hayes?

  Why don't we? We always talk about it. By the way, do you guys like doing laundry? I just did a bunch of laundry. I like, you know what? Scotty and I were talking about this.

• 3:44Jason Bateman?

  Hold on, I'm in your neck brace.

• 3:45Will Arnett?

  Wait a second. Why are you looking over your shit?

• 3:48Jason Bateman?

  The listener's gonna think that we've made a weird edit.

• 3:50Sean Hayes?

  Because I just finished, no, no, no, I just finished a ton of laundry. And I don't usually like folding laundry, but I like folding towels. I like folding towels because it's like OCD.

• 3:59Jason Bateman?

  So are you trying to tell us that you do laundry when you're back home in LA?

• 4:03Sean Hayes?

  No, sir. I do it here in New York City.

• 4:05Will Arnett?

  I'll tell you what, you're a fascinating dinner date. Tell us more about it. The folding of the towels, man.

• 4:11Sean Hayes?

  Do you guys know what I mean though?

• 4:13Jason Bateman?

  I will tell you that, you know my-

• 4:14Sean Hayes?

  Blankets and towels.

• 4:15Jason Bateman?

  Did you guys have a lot of discipline growing up as far as like having chores and learning how to do everything that like, I know how to wash windows without streaks. I know how to fold laundry. I know how to load a dishwasher.

• 4:29Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I didn't do it too much.

• 4:30Jason Bateman?

  I know how to sweep in a way that you're not resweeping certain areas. Like my dad taught me how to do everything right.

• 4:40Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, same.

• 4:41Jason Bateman?

  Like before I could like push back and say, I don't want to learn. I have not done that with my kids. I mean, they get by, but I just-

• 4:53Sean Hayes?

  No, but your kids are very responsible.

• 4:55Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, no, they're incredible. I love them to death and they do great. But I wasn't diligent about like teaching them how to do the things that you're going to need to do the rest of your life, like folding a towel, how to do it properly.

• 5:09Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I remember my mom teaching me how to do that.

• 5:11Jason Bateman?

  Making a bed.

• 5:12Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, we had to because we didn't have any money. You know that whole story. And we didn't have a washer and dryer. It always broke down. So me and my mom took garbage bags of clothes and put them in the car and drove to the laundromat. And I was the only kid that did that.

• 5:28Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 5:29Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, out of the five kids, by the way, they're all listening. And yeah, we're going to argue about that later.

• 5:35Will Arnett?

  I started last night getting ahead of the snow outside of my stoop here. And so I was out every couple hours.

• 5:41Jason Bateman?

  And you knew how to shovel?

• 5:43Will Arnett?

  Yeah, of course, because it did bring me back. It made me feel like I was a young Canadian.

• 5:48Sean Hayes?

  It's the best, right? Yeah, I love it.

• 5:50Will Arnett?

  So good.

• 5:50Sean Hayes?

  Jay, what about you getting behind the snow?

• 5:53Jason Bateman?

  You know, like, so that's a Coke joke.

• 5:58Jason Bateman?

  It's a Coke joke, early or in minute eight.

• 6:01Sean Hayes?

  I know, sorry.

• 6:02Will Arnett?

  JB, do you want to?

• 6:03Jason Bateman?

  But like, so there's something that my dad never did teach me because by the time we left the snow, I was four, so I didn't have to shovel it. But so I would struggle with snow. There's probably a real, you need, you need a parent to teach you.

• 6:18Sean Hayes?

  Elbow grease.

• 6:18Will Arnett?

  You can learn pretty quickly.

• 6:20Jason Bateman?

  You don't start at the bottom, right? You don't dig that shovel all the way to the bottom and try to lift it up. You gotta, you gotta start taking off the top, right?

• 6:25Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 6:26Will Arnett?

  Well, it depends on how much snow you got. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's why also, like, if you go out and you get it early enough, like I did it a couple of times last night, so that by this morning, it wasn't too insane.

• 6:34Sean Hayes?

  See, that night, yeah, I used to do that. What do you think my dad taught me?

• 6:37Jason Bateman?

  Uh oh. Wait, can I come back to this? Because I'd love to fill out a joke list of 10 to 20.

• 6:43Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 6:45Jason Bateman?

  And then I'd like to, you know, rank them and really just give you the right stuff.

• 6:49Will Arnett?

  Ultimately, how to lower expectations, I guess, in people.

• 6:54Will Arnett?

  Keep your expectations super low.

• 6:56Jason Bateman?

  Also, how to keep your emotional knees bent, you know? Always, always ready for disappointment.

• 7:02Will Arnett?

  Right. Emotionally bend, bend from the knees, I guess.

• 7:05Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. In a ready position.

• 7:08Sean Hayes?

  Yes, and now look at me.

• 7:10Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 7:10Sean Hayes?

  Anyway.

• 7:11Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you're doing great. I will say, no, you know, Shawnee, for all the joking, for all the joking that we do about it, something like that, you're one of the most caring, thoughtful people I have ever had in my life. It's, it's, that's a true story. You really, really, I was saying to somebody the other day.

• 7:27Jason Bateman?

  Incredible.

• 7:28Will Arnett?

  I was saying, I was saying that Sean is the first guy, anything's going on in your life, something's happened, he's the first person to check in, send you something, help. Like, he's.

• 7:37Jason Bateman?

  Thank you, that's very nice. Sean, you are a perfect example of nature versus nurture. So there's no, there's no even question about the nurture part because we all know the story. Your, your father had something to do in some other place, aside from staying with you, and you have been able to become this incredible person. Yes, your mother was incredible to you as well, but you have, you have natured yourself all the way to the incredible Sean Hayes.

• 8:04Sean Hayes?

  Well, that's very nice.

• 8:05Will Arnett?

  You cured yourself.

• 8:06Sean Hayes?

  I natured myself.

• 8:07Will Arnett?

  There's a few things in there that I, that I really enjoyed. Your father had something else to do elsewhere.

• 8:14Jason Bateman?

  He was laid for something.

• 8:16Will Arnett?

  You natured yourself.

• 8:18Sean Hayes?

  I would say, I would, I would accept that compliment as I'm trying to learn as I get older. So, thank you for that and I will return it to both of you. I think we all come from backgrounds that challenged us to become better people.

• 8:30Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, amen.

• 8:31Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 8:31Jason Bateman?

  Which tees up our guest perfectly.

• 8:33Will Arnett?

  I guess it does. I was gonna say, I mean, the, the warning signs were there. I mean, your dad had five kids and he bought a two-seater.

• 8:42Will Arnett?

  It's not, it's like this guy, he built an escape pod. He was sending you guys signs.

• 8:48Sean Hayes?

  It's so true.

• 8:51Jason Bateman?

  A little MG convertible.

• 8:53Sean Hayes?

  Yes.

• 8:54Will Arnett?

  I mean, you just refer him in a bag, like an overnight bag.

• 8:59Sean Hayes?

  By the way, he had that too.

• 9:01Will Arnett?

  It's so true. Anyway, I'll tell you something about our guest. She is really no stranger to awards. SAG Awards, any kind of, you know, it's insane. I mean, nominated for like, like 122 various awards around the world, 19 wins. And, you know, we're, we're talking about, what are we talking about? We're talking about SAGs, Critics' Choice, recently an Academy Award. I can't say what yet because you're gonna know exactly who it is and I want you to guess.

• 9:36Will Arnett?

  Emmys, everything she has and, and her, for, for pieces of work that we all really, really adore. That we, and she, stuff that we've all seen a million times and we're like, oh yeah, oh, the greatest. Stuff like breaking out in I Am Sam, Daddy Daycare. Okay, all the way to the new Predator Badlands. And then this year's sentimental value for which she is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. You guys, it's another than L. Fanning.

• 10:13Sean Hayes?

  Oh my god.

• 10:15Jason Bateman?

  God, you had me spinning. I didn't know where you were going with this.

• 10:18Will Arnett?

  I know, I know. I took you on a weird route just to go into credits.

• 10:22Speaker 03

  Did I take it off at the right time?

• 10:24Jason Bateman?

  You did.

• 10:25Sean Hayes?

  Yes.

• 10:26Jason Bateman?

  Hello, good morning.

• 10:27Sean Hayes?

  Oh.

• 10:28Jason Bateman?

  We usually have a, have a guest in there. We didn't even get to a guest.

• 10:32Sean Hayes?

  But I just saw.

• 10:33Speaker 03

  At first, you, you go, I am Sam. I'm like, oh God, they're gonna think it's Dakota.

• 10:37Will Arnett?

  No, I just wanted to throw them off the scent, Al. I wanted them to be thrown.

• 10:42Sean Hayes?

  Wait, Al, I just watched Badlands. It was so good. Yes. I bug Jason forever and Jason's schedule and mine's because we never got together. I was like, fuck it, I'm just gonna watch it.

• 10:50Jason Bateman?

  I hear that's incredible.

• 10:51Speaker 03

  Thank you so much. I, I am a real listener to this and my sister and I and our friend Chloe, we absolutely love your show and your documentary. So this is, this is a big deal. I'm like, sitting here, like, my heart is pounding.

• 11:08Jason Bateman?

  Well, we're so happy for you to be here.

• 11:11Speaker 03

  I do know, Will, we've been seeing each other around.

• 11:13Will Arnett?

  Yes, yes.

• 11:14Jason Bateman?

  Oh, congrats. How long you guys been dating?

• 11:18Speaker 03

  From the Puck convention.

• 11:20Jason Bateman?

  Wait, Puck the website or, or Puck a hockey thing or Puck the website thing?

• 11:25Speaker 03

  No. Puck is a real, that's for Tracy. I wanted to get that in.

• 11:29Sean Hayes?

  Yes, yeah. Tell Trey, because I don't know what it is either.

• 11:32Will Arnett?

  Now that's a real listener.

• 11:35Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 11:37Speaker 03

  Puck is, what, what is it, Will?

• 11:39Will Arnett?

  It's that guy Matt, Matt, is it, what's his name? Matt, Matt Baloney? Is that his name? Belloney?

• 11:44Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 11:44Will Arnett?

  Belloney. Boy, I would get crushed for that.

• 11:48Will Arnett?

  And, um. He's a great, who's also.

• 11:50Jason Bateman?

  John Heilmann and, um, right? Yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot, a lot of great.

• 11:55Will Arnett?

  Am I right about that? Is that the same, is that the same crew? Is it, is it Matt Baloney or is that different?

• 11:59Speaker 03

  It's like an entertainment email thing too, right? People get, like, in the industry, you have to sign up for it and it's like, you get little inside scoops and things?

• 12:10Jason Bateman?

  Yes, that, yeah. There's a, there's a bunch of stuff in there. It's very, very.

• 12:13Will Arnett?

  You must, you must subscribe to it, Jason.

• 12:15Jason Bateman?

  Oh, you know it, girl.

• 12:16Sean Hayes?

  But wait a minute, for me, for me and my sister, I still don't understand. So Puck is a thing, like, it's a website?

• 12:21Will Arnett?

  It's like a newsletter. It's like a newsletter. So you sign up, they send you an email, then you sign up for things. Yeah, it's like a website.

• 12:26Sean Hayes?

  And how are you and Al?

• 12:26Will Arnett?

  And then you have access.

• 12:27Sean Hayes?

  It's like, how does that?

• 12:28Will Arnett?

  Well, they did a, they did a, uh, what was it? Like a panel?

• 12:32Speaker 03

  Panel.

• 12:32Will Arnett?

  Q and A panel.

• 12:33Sean Hayes?

  Oh, okay, got it, got it.

• 12:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, and he was there for this thing on and I was there for Sentimental Value. And Jesse Plemons was with us and Tessa Thompson.

• 12:41Sean Hayes?

  Right, right. I can't, I've only heard amazing things about sentimental. I, I can't wait to see it.

• 12:46Will Arnett?

  Sentimental Value is so good.

• 12:48Jason Bateman?

  I love it so much.

• 12:48Will Arnett?

  I don't know if I told, maybe I talked to you about it, but I talked, I think I talked to you about it and, and your wonderful director Joaquin and, uh, Joaquin Trier and also with, uh, Stellan and Renata, how amazing that film is. It's such a beautiful film. It's such a, I mean, just the, the level of filmmaking in every department, from the direction to the acting to the production to all of it is so complete. I mean, that is truly the height of great filmmaking, I think.

• 13:14Speaker 03

  Thank you. Yeah, it was an unreal experience with, with Joakim and it was just really something.

• 13:21Will Arnett?

  Joakim, I said his name wrong.

• 13:23Jason Bateman?

  How do you say, how do you pronounce his last name too? Is it Trier or?

• 13:26Speaker 03

  Trier.

• 13:27Will Arnett?

  Trier.

• 13:27Speaker 03

  Trier, yeah.

• 13:28Will Arnett?

  How embarrassing. I, I'm sure there's gonna be a headline how we've just besmirched the guy.

• 13:34Speaker 03

  A lot of people say Joaquin, but it's, or, or Joakim or something. Yeah. If you were, if you had a Norwegian accent, they would say it different. It would be like Joakim.

• 13:45Will Arnett?

  Joakim.

• 13:46Speaker 03

  So, yeah, yeah.

• 13:47Will Arnett?

  Joakim, now I'm saying, great.

• 13:48Speaker 03

  Joakim, yeah.

• 13:49Sean Hayes?

  Wait, Al, where are you right now? Are you, are you in New York?

• 13:52Speaker 03

  I am in LA. I am in LA. Yes, but I have been, uh, my boyfriend lives in New York and so he just sent me actually a photo.

• 13:59Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it's crazy in New York right now, isn't it? He sent you photos. It's so nuts.

• 14:03Speaker 03

  There was a tree that fell down in front of his house, this giant tree, but it looks so cozy. I mean, I'm in LA and it's like glorious and sunny outside. So it's so crazy how opposite it is.

• 14:13Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I know. It's, I had, uh, yeah, yeah, I just, I ventured out for two minutes. My, my local coffee shop's closed. Nobody went in because.

• 14:21Sean Hayes?

  There's not, by the way, I just, there's, there's nothing open.

• 14:23Will Arnett?

  Nothing's open. My gym was open, thank God. Obvi.

• 14:28Will Arnett?

  Wait, pause for compliment. Nothing, okay, moving on.

• 14:33Will Arnett?

  Wait, so, so Al, you're in LA. You spent a lot of your life in LA. You were born, we're gonna, we're gonna go early days. You were born in, just outside of Atlanta, I'm guessing, right?

• 14:41Speaker 03

  Yes, yes. I was born actually during a tornado warning. Whoa. Yeah. I've been through a tornado warning in Atlanta. It's not fun. Well, I guess, yeah, I wasn't really, definitely don't remember it. I was going through something else at the time. You slept through that.

• 14:57Sean Hayes?

  Wait, so your mom, your mom, your mom was giving birth to you while there was a tornado?

• 15:01Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 15:01Sean Hayes?

  Like, happening?

• 15:02Speaker 03

  I don't think it was happening, but it was very close. And there was a warning, so like, the hospital, like, the hallways, like, there was kind of this shutdown. Yeah, what do you do, you don't think about that? That meant that my sister was in the room while my mom gave birth, and she was asleep on a cot um, next to the bed. And my mom didn't find out with either of us, like, if we were a boy or a girl. And so, my mom gave birth, and then my sister woke up and, like, famously, and I think it's on camera, we have, like, a, a video of it, but she says, she says, "What is it?" And it's like, "It's a baby sister," and that, yeah.

• 15:38Sean Hayes?

  That's very sweet, aw.

• 15:40Will Arnett?

  You're lucky, you're lucky your parents didn't do that thing of, like, decide to name you, like, Nado, or, you know, F3 after the size of the hurricane.

• 15:48Speaker 03

  This tornado, I know. But, yeah, I was born in Georgia. Like, my family is very southern. So even though, yeah, even though I grew up in LA, like, I moved here when I was three, so I definitely don't remember Georgia that much, but the southern roots, like, run deep. And my grandmother, um, lived with us growing up, and she still lives with my mom. And, um, she would go with me on film sets, um, and my mom would go with my sister. Oh, wow. Because we would, when we were working at the same time.

• 16:18Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you were, and what I loved about reading, reading up a little bit about, about your, your sort of, uh, early days is how your, and I mentioned I am Sam, because you, you did play a younger version of your sister in the movie, and they, if someone like Wikipedia, of course, we have a deep research department, said, um, said that you- You, you, your first, it sort of lists your first few credits and then it says, "Her first role where she wasn't playing a young version of her sister."

• 16:46Speaker 03

  Right, because I did it a couple of times.

• 16:48Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 16:48Speaker 03

  They would throw me in. Yeah, because they would, you know, there would be flashback scenes and then they'd be trying to find a young girl that looked like Dakota and then I would be on set, like with my mom. And they're like, "Actually, can we just use Elle real quick?" And so technically, and my mom's like, "Sure." And I, they took me and I just got handed to Sean Penn and we're swinging on the swing.

• 17:13Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 17:13Jason Bateman?

  Wow, that's wild.

• 17:14Will Arnett?

  And that's how, Jason played a young Justine Payman many times.

• 17:18Jason Bateman?

  Many, yeah.

• 17:20Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 17:21Jason Bateman?

  Put in the extensions and off I went.

• 17:23Speaker 03

  Throw out the hair.

• 17:26Jason Bateman?

  What's the, what's the age difference between you two?

• 17:28Speaker 03

  She's four years older than me.

• 17:30Jason Bateman?

  Okay, and it's just the two of you?

• 17:32Speaker 03

  Just us, yep. Just us.

• 17:34Jason Bateman?

  And what's, yeah, how, how old were you when you, when you guys started? I'm getting, I'm getting to sort of this question about like, missing childhood and all that stuff.

• 17:45Speaker 03

  You're going down the dark way. People love asking that to us child actors.

• 17:50Will Arnett?

  There's a great, there's a great, kind of, there's a great, I know you worked a lot when you were a kid, but there's also, there was a lot of normalcy there and I was going to get it, get to it, but you, go for it, Elle.

• 17:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's definitely something, you know, that, that's asked. I mean, I, the origin story, it's so funny because my sister's like, "You're not telling it exactly right." And I'm like, "Well, I was a baby." I'm like, it's, you know, it's been told to me. So, because a lot to do with my start is really her start into everything. And so she was in, you know, Georgia. My mom and my dad, they were both athletes. My dad was a professional baseball player. My mom was, played tennis in college. Her dad was a quarterback in the NFL for the Eagles.

• 18:37Jason Bateman?

  What?

• 18:37Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 18:38Jason Bateman?

  That's crazy.

• 18:39Speaker 03

  So sports is in our blood and we were really, yeah, we were really supposed to. I think mom probably thought that we would be tennis players or something. Oh, really? Or, I mean, you know, something, something sporty. And it's funny, I mean, this has to do with it, but like, our mom is, she tans really easily, has really dark eyes, super dark, long hair, and so this, this, it all tracks because, and our dad is part, he's German, his mom was German, and so we kind of came out with this like fair, fair skin and this like white hair and blue eyes, and so when my sister,

• 19:21Speaker 03

  you know, she went out on the tennis court, you know, my mom got her out there young, she's like, you know, four, five, you know, and she would just get so hot, and like, we don't tan, like, the sunburn was just insane, and so she's like, oh my god, like, my precious little, you know, fair skinned, like, baby, like, she's just not cut out for this sport, like, you know, and then she put her in soccer, and it's like, yeah, like, we need to get her indoors.

• 19:48Will Arnett?

  Let's get her on a dark stage.

• 19:51Speaker 03

  But I appreciate, you know, I think there's, the athleticism and the discipline is actually really translated into acting, like, as I've gotten older, I really see the correlation to it, like, I approach my work kind of in this athletic way. Like a team sport? Yeah, team sport, but also just, I think the adrenaline, like, hiking yourself up, like, making sure you're nourished, like, for the, like, there's just something to it that I, I think there is a correlation there. And, and so then, I know I'm trying, the origin story, because it's, it's kind of crazy, but my mom wanted, you know, wanted Dakota to, because I wasn't born yet, but to find, like, her passion, like, okay, what are we gonna put you in, so then she was like, all right, you know, she did violin, she played the piano, and my sister was like

• 20:35Speaker 03

  a savant, like, she is, just was always incredibly smart for her age, and she has a photographic memory, her memory's insane, which doesn't help in arguments, because she's completely always right.

• 20:51Will Arnett?

  I know what that's like.

• 20:54Sean Hayes?

  It's a burden. It's a burden.

• 20:56Speaker 03

  And so then there was this, you know, then my mom kind of would observe my sister playing around the house constantly of just all she wanted to do was like play with her baby dolls. I mean, a lot of kids do, but it was just very extreme in an elaborate in, in the all of that. And then when I came along, she got like this real life baby to play with. She's like, we can make it even more real, you know? We would watch the TLC shows like My Baby Story. But oh, like, and as a kid, we loved that. And, and all we, we would play and then she would give birth to me. So I would like come out of this beanbag like underneath her and like, and we wouldn't perform this for people, but we would do it for ourselves.

• 21:40Sean Hayes?

  Right. Like push, push and it'd just be like a beanbag.

• 21:43Speaker 03

  Oh, yes, yes. And it's like, oh God, we're, we're losing her. We're losing her, you know, she's like pounding on me and I'm playing along or just these real, these real scenarios. And so my mom, I mean, we're kind of jumping around, but this was kind of, yeah, I guess Dakota was like five, so I was around. Um, but she put her in this play camp in Georgia and the people at the play camp, they were putting on this, I think it was called Blue Fish, like this play. And, um, she got a big part in that play and just lit up, like found, they could just see something in her from the other kids that was different. And they talked to my mom and were like, you know, maybe she could do some commercials

• 22:25Speaker 03

  or get an agent here, you know, maybe get a TV show or just it wasn't, but it, but it wasn't like go to the movies. It was just like, try this out type of thing.

• 22:33Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 22:34Speaker 03

  And, and I mean, mom had a genuine conversation like with Dakota at that age, like, is this something you'd want to do? And, and, and she's like, at any point, if this is like not fun for you, like.

• 22:46Sean Hayes?

  We won't do it.

• 22:46Speaker 03

  We're gonna go home. We won't do it.

• 22:48Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 22:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, and so then it eventually, she got a agent in Georgia. And then my mom and my sister, they went themselves to LA because my aunt, who was a sideline reporter for the NFL at the time.

• 23:01Sean Hayes?

  Good lord.

• 23:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, she was living in LA and so my mom and my sister like slept on her couch and, you know, did pilot season.

• 23:09Sean Hayes?

  Sure.

• 23:10Speaker 03

  And I think she got Ally McBeal. She played the young Ally McBeal.

• 23:14Sean Hayes?

  Wow.

• 23:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, and got commercials, you know, and then...

• 23:19Sean Hayes?

  So where does L come in? No, no, I love it.

• 23:22Speaker 03

  Well, at this time, I'm just like, I'm so young, but I'm watching. It's just becoming a part of my life from that age of seeing my sister, oh, going on these auditions and then, oh, then she gets to dress up and gets to go to other places. And it's like, I want to do that. It really was a copycat. Like, I call myself like a nepo sister in a way because I completely just copied her because I would visit her on sets all the time. Which also, Cat in the Hat, Sean.

• 23:49Sean Hayes?

  Cat in the Hat.

• 23:50Speaker 03

  You were in Cat in the Hat!

• 23:50Sean Hayes?

  With Dakota, yeah. Did you come by? Did I meet you? Probably met you as a child.

• 23:55Speaker 03

  I was on set all the time.

• 23:55Sean Hayes?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 23:56Will Arnett?

  Sean, how many times a day do you say, "Did I meet you?" Just guess, ballpark.

• 24:06Sean Hayes?

  We'll be right back.

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• 27:56Jason Bateman?

  And now, back to the show.

• 27:59Jason Bateman?

  So, but what about school for the both of you guys? Like, did you have a very normal childhood? Like, looking back now?

• 28:07Will Arnett?

  Kind of, right?

• 28:08Speaker 03

  Yes, we really did.

• 28:09Jason Bateman?

  Sorry, that one was for Elle, Will.

• 28:11Will Arnett?

  No, no.

• 28:13Speaker 03

  Will, have you had a normal childhood?

• 28:15Jason Bateman?

  I'm sorry.

• 28:17Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 28:18Will Arnett?

  Willie?

• 28:19Speaker 03

  Oh my gosh.

• 28:20Jason Bateman?

  No, but you did, so you went to public schools and stuff like that?

• 28:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, my sister went to, um, she was homeschooled.

• 28:27Jason Bateman?

  Okay.

• 28:29Speaker 03

  For a long time until ninth grade in high school. And so then that meant like the age wise, I was homeschooled by my grandmother until fourth grade. And so at that, at those two ages, we just kind of felt like we wanted, you know, I think our mom wanted us to have that experience. You know, very much an experience that our mom had. Like, she just never had a, she is shy. She's not, like, no one is in the business. Like, this is just not, this is not how she saw her life going. And then it was like Dakota just kind of kept getting jobs. And then we're like, she always thought, oh, we're gonna move back to Georgia. And then they never did, because she kept getting things and like moved to LA.

• 29:14Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 29:15Speaker 03

  And so my mom was really, you know, figuring out as she was going along as well. It's interesting because my sister, her birthday is today.

• 29:23Jason Bateman?

  Oh, happy birthday, Dakota.

• 29:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, but she's, um... Yeah, she's 32, but we're, it's interesting, because we're like, mom was 32 when she was on set with I Am Sam, like navigating this, you know, with Sean Penn's like method, you know, talking to Dakota and, and just they're having to navigate that together. It's just so interesting. Like, kind of sweet to think about our young mom dealing with that.

• 29:46Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's really cool.

• 29:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, but yeah, schools, it's, uh, yes, we, we were homeschooled and then it was like, I think, you know, I was like, I don't really have any friends my own age and, and I want to have that experience. And so mom's like, yeah, certainly, you know, wanted proms and the parties and the whole thing. And so we went to the same school and it was a private school here in LA.

• 30:07Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's great.

• 30:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:09Sean Hayes?

  And then did, uh, did, again, I'm just, I find myself, I'm just projecting here, just thinking about all of my, you know. Oh, take us away on this journey. Yeah, so for me, um, uh, but did you guys think about college? I didn't know there were tickets left on the journey. You guys, do you guys just kind of blew right by college, kind of like I did, thinking like, oh, it's, we're, I'm good. I've got my career started. I don't, I don't need it. And it's, it's stressful, right?

• 30:34Speaker 03

  I certainly did. I was not, I was so done with school. I was, I knew from pretty quick, I'm not going to college. Dakota did. Dakota went to NYU.

• 30:45Sean Hayes?

  Okay.

• 30:45Speaker 03

  She's much more studious than I and has much more like the attention span and.

• 30:51Sean Hayes?

  She's got a backup career in her back pocket.

• 30:53Speaker 03

  I know. We said she should be, she, we always tell her like she should be, should have been a lawyer. I mean, not should have, but like, yeah.

• 31:00Sean Hayes?

  She still can be, yeah.

• 31:02Speaker 03

  She still can be.

• 31:03Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's why, wait, I want to just say one sidebar about homeschool, because I, I, I, I don't know anything about it. It just imagine. Oh, well, then definitely go off on it then. Yeah, let's have your hot take.

• 31:16Sean Hayes?

  I always imagine when somebody says they're homeschooled, like, how eat, like, who's checking to see if you've done your home, like, how does it, you know, like, you just wake up, you're like, man, I don't, you can't say, I don't feel like going to class, because your class is in your house. You know, like, I would cut class all the time. Sure you would. You'd be late a lot. Yeah, I'd be late or whatever. I'd be late almost every day to school. But yeah, but there's, there's no like, anyway, we don't have to go into it.

• 31:43Speaker 03

  No, it was, it was like a curriculum that was, um, a full curriculum and they would send you all of the books and then.

• 31:51Jason Bateman?

  And then your quote, your quote teacher is your grandmother?

• 31:53Speaker 03

  Yes, and then I also had a studio teacher. That was the same studio teacher with me, even when I would, um, when I was in my regular school and would leave and go back and forth and we had to keep up with the assignments.

• 32:06Jason Bateman?

  Got it.

• 32:07Speaker 03

  But it was also, I mean, it was interesting because I felt like I learned a lot more, like the certain curriculum, they taught us cursive first instead of, and which is kind of reversed. When I went into school, like, a lot of my, they didn't know cursive as, and they thought it was kind of weird, like, why are you doing cursive? I'm like, oh, that's what I was taught first before. And so it was kind of like an advanced.

• 32:29Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 32:30Sean Hayes?

  I know what you mean about the college thing though, because I was, it's like, I, I completely advocate for everybody going to college just for the experience of it, right? However. But I understand when people like want to pursue acting or something, because if you have a degree in act and being an act, like theater and actor, it doesn't help you get a job, like either you're right for a part or you're not right for a part. But I mean, I still.

• 32:53Jason Bateman?

  As a doctor, you need to have that diploma and the credentials and all that stuff before you can, yeah.

• 32:58Sean Hayes?

  I still advocate for people going to study because I.

• 33:01Jason Bateman?

  We heard that the first time.

• 33:03Will Arnett?

  Yeah, we're really covered on that point, just in case you're worried about taking fire.

• 33:07Sean Hayes?

  By the way, and by the way, just a little plug, I have a scholarship set up at Illinois State University for theater kids, so I do.

• 33:13Will Arnett?

  Boy, there's a long way to get to that, I'll tell you what.

• 33:17Speaker 03

  That's a plug.

• 33:18Sean Hayes?

  It's important.

• 33:19Will Arnett?

  No, I had, my, my, my thing was.

• 33:21Jason Bateman?

  Let's get to Will's experience.

• 33:22Will Arnett?

  After one semester, because I was like, fuck, I want to get out into the world and I want to get doing the thing I want to do. That was it for me.

• 33:29Jason Bateman?

  You were saying.

• 33:30Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 33:31Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Let's get on to this.

• 33:33Speaker 03

  That's how I felt. I mean, yeah, it was, yeah.

• 33:36Sean Hayes?

  So, so Al, what was the first gig where you, where you were actually front and center and not a, a, a, um, stand-in for your sister, that you were up, that you're front and center and you were, you were like, wait a minute, this is really cool and I really get it?

• 33:50Speaker 03

  Yes, there was, gosh, I'm trying to remember the very first, I mean, I definitely, I mean, I did. You know, I had a lot of commercials. I did the, you know, Law and Order stint. You know, I burned down a house. It's like a crazy, you know, demon child. And, you know, I had the rite of passage there.

• 34:08Jason Bateman?

  What was your style of burning? Was it like lighter fluid? How did you burn down the house? Do you remember what your character did?

• 34:15Speaker 03

  I don't remember.

• 34:17Sean Hayes?

  Asking for a friend?

• 34:18Jason Bateman?

  A bunch of old newspapers.

• 34:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't remember exactly.

• 34:21Jason Bateman?

  Because there's a bunch of different ways to do it.

• 34:22Speaker 03

  It might have just been, I don't know if they showed me doing it. It was more like, you know, fire starter, like I was just like this girl in front of the burning building.

• 34:30Jason Bateman?

  Didn't come out of your eyes or anything like that?

• 34:31Speaker 03

  No, no. But Criminal Minds, they really loved me. They brought, I was kidnapped twice. The same character. I was brought back.

• 34:41Sean Hayes?

  To get kidnapped again.

• 34:42Will Arnett?

  To get kidnapped again?

• 34:43Speaker 03

  Yes, yes.

• 34:44Jason Bateman?

  The best kicking and screaming we've ever seen.

• 34:46Sean Hayes?

  Not since Liam Neeson, yeah.

• 34:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, so that was a big thing.

• 34:50Will Arnett?

  Sean, after being kidnapped, how quickly would they let you go, do you think? If they told you? Oops. On the ride to the hideout?

• 34:59Sean Hayes?

  Well, you know, as Oprah says, never let them take you to the second location.

• 35:03Will Arnett?

  Well, L was so criminal.

• 35:05Speaker 03

  Sean asked something.

• 35:06Will Arnett?

  You're about, first job on your own.

• 35:08Sean Hayes?

  Like when the fire started, like when that flame first started, like, oh, wait, this is exciting. Was it like all of those little episodic things? You're like, wait a minute, this is really, really thrilling.

• 35:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, I remember there was a movie I did called Phoebe in Wonderland. And I was nine. It was with Felicity Huffman and Patricia Clarkson and Bill Pullman.

• 35:29Sean Hayes?

  They're both great. They're all great.

• 35:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, and I played Phoebe, so like my name was in the title. And it was about a young girl who had Tourette's Syndrome. And I realized, it was the first time that I, you know, had to learn about something and portray something in like a sensitive way. I mean, yes, I was young, but I realized, oh, there's another layer to acting, obviously, of like, I have to transform into this person and kind of...

• 35:59Speaker 03

  It's a very specific experience that I don't know, that I have to learn about. And I talked to kids that had it. And so that was very unique. And just to be for the first time, like the person who was like number one on the call sheet. Like I was Phoebe.

• 36:12Sean Hayes?

  And go deep like that. Yeah, that's really cool. I remember watching What's Eating Gilbert Grape and I'd never even heard of Leonardo DiCaprio.

• 36:19Speaker 03

  My sister's favorite movie.

• 36:20Sean Hayes?

  So good. And when Leonardo DiCaprio came on as that character, I was like, oh my gosh, how do they cast that kid? Like where do you find the kid? That kid? And you're like, oh, he did what? That was a part like that blew my mind as I'm sure.

• 36:32Will Arnett?

  He was so good. What, what? Well, L, so that, that happened. What was the first film when you were kind of on your own? Like is like you really felt like you were an adult and really had agency over you? I mean, you always had agency over the roles and stuff you wanted to do. But that time when you were.

• 36:48Speaker 03

  Or mostly you're just auditioning and you're trying to get the best thing. And it just so happens that, oh, you know, you got the part. So you can't really pick.

• 36:57Will Arnett?

  What was the first thing that you like shows that you picked? That you felt like this is all right, I want to do it. I'm, I'm an adult. This is the kind of stuff I want to do. Do you remember? Was there a certain thing?

• 37:08Speaker 03

  I know it's so funny because there's, there's also so many different chapters that I can pinpoint of like, of remembering like, I felt like Somewhere was a film that I did that I auditioned for that. I was 11, but that was the first time that people started.

• 37:22Sean Hayes?

  Was that Sofia's film?

• 37:23Speaker 03

  Somewhere and Super 8, it was Sofia's film. Yes, with Stephen Dorff. Um, and we filmed The Chateau and Super 8, that was with J.J. Abrams. They were kind of close. I was 12 in, in that, but those were the first times I started getting recognized not as Dakota Fanning. Cause constantly I would just always get recognized as Dakota. Um, and so that was like a, there was like a kind of stepping stone there and like another chapter. What is coming to mind with like a role that I chose that really felt like I? I fought for it was The Neon Demon. This film I did with Nicholas Winding Refn, who directed Drive.

• 38:02Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 38:02Sean Hayes?

  Oh, yeah.

• 38:03Speaker 03

  And Drive had just come out and it was this, I mean, it was a crazy script.

• 38:12Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, and that film was incredibly ambitious, too. Yeah, I remember the excitement around him right after Drive, too. Yeah, that was awesome.

• 38:20Speaker 03

  And the script was, you know, I was seventeen when I filmed it. And it was, I guess, quote unquote, I mean, I was playing a seventeen year old girl, but it was kind of the horror, it was intense. Like, it was, like, again, kind of polarizing with the themes. It was kind of like The Substance in a way, like, pre The Substance. It was about, you know, beauty in the modeling industry. And it was kind of extreme, but I was like, I want to do this. Like, I saw something in it and I, and obviously, I mean, Nick was from Drive. I mean, he was a big, you know, director that people wanted to work with. And so it was a part that a lot of people wanted,

• 39:03Speaker 03

  but it was something that I really, like, pushed for and wanted to go there. And I think people in the industry, I don't know. I think it went to Cannes and it, you know, got boos and then got applause. And it was like very polarizing, but I enjoyed that, that it was not, you know, straight down the middle. And it was my first time kind of doing something like that.

• 39:23Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. What, where, do you see, so the job, obviously, of being an actor is playing different people. And can I, this is gonna be a weird question. Oh, boy. But like, did you find as a kid, when you're just learning who you are and becoming who you are, did you find it confusing to be asking yourself to be all these different people at a time when you're trying to figure out That's a really good question. who you are? I mean, I just, I found that was confusing for me, you know? Like, we didn't become schizophrenics, but like, you're really trying to be a convincing version of something that you're not at a time when you're trying to figure out who you are. So how was that for you?

• 40:08Speaker 03

  That is really good. It's something I haven't completely thought about.

• 40:14Jason Bateman?

  Get it out now. This is the place to get it out.

• 40:16Speaker 03

  This is the moment right here. Um, I think that.

• 40:21Jason Bateman?

  I think it can be helpful, maybe, right?

• 40:23Speaker 03

  It's just something that I hadn't thought about. I think, yeah, I think there was, for me, acting in the experience, I just felt like it was so enriching, like there's nothing, like for me, it's added so much to my life and like expanded my life of getting to also know how to handle yourself like around adults and, and, and be in those social situations and, and go to other countries and experience, like it was just kind of, it opened my world in a way that it seemed, I, I was like, oh, this is normal, but it's obviously not the normal. And then playing characters, I mean, I'm a real big, I live in my head a lot and I'm

• 41:03Speaker 03

  a big daydreamer and kind of like my imagination more than reality anyway. So I felt like I found a place that I could expose all of those inner thoughts.

• 41:18Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, an experiment, right?

• 41:19Speaker 03

  An experiment and, and almost put on different types of clothes and, and different personalities. And I did that, not so much in my real life, but I got to act that out through the characters I played when I was younger. So it wasn't confusing. It was more like cathartic, I guess.

• 41:36Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 41:37Speaker 03

  To have an outlet like that.

• 41:38Jason Bateman?

  Can you point to any character that you feel that you, that you adopted still to this day that's become a kind of a, a, a good part of your personality?

• 41:48Sean Hayes?

  Jason, another great follow-up question.

• 41:51Jason Bateman?

  Guys, I've done a lot of work, a lot of work on this interview.

• 41:54Sean Hayes?

  That's a really good question.

• 41:55Speaker 03

  It wasn't someone that I played when I was younger, younger, but I was in the show The Great, where I played Catherine the Great.

• 42:03Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 42:04Sean Hayes?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 42:05Speaker 03

  Yes, for, um, we did it for three seasons.

• 42:07Jason Bateman?

  Nicholas Holt?

• 42:08Speaker 03

  Nicholas Holt, yes, he played Peter the Third and we were a married couple. And Tony McNamara, who wrote The Favorite, wrote it. So it was very, you know, we had an asterisk that said like, this is not historically accurate, like before the show happened in like a tongue in cheek way. And it was raunchy and definitely not about history.

• 42:26Jason Bateman?

  It was really stylized. It was, it was awesome.

• 42:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was kind of in that, in the fa, in that favorite like tone, the rhythm. It was very written, very, we had to be punctuation perfect, word perfect. And, um, you know, it was a real. You had to hit the joke. Yeah, it was a real challenge. But I felt like Tony was watching me kind of come to my own as a woman. Because I started the first season, I was 19, 20, and then we finished when I was 25.

• 42:56Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 42:57Speaker 03

  So 100% my personality was informing what Tony was writing throughout the seasons. Catherine was, I was absorbing her. And to this day, I feel like she's the most like me. Which could be better, I mean, there's a lot of negative things to her as well.

• 43:14Will Arnett?

  Yeah, sure.

• 43:15Speaker 03

  You know, I, she was a very messy character and complicated. And I think also, people sometimes want to put you in a box of, I mean, especially me, of like, oh, you laugh all the time and, you know, and you're naive. And, you know, that is something, you know, I did Maleficent, I played Sleeping Beauty. So I was a Disney princess. And so to be able to do this show where I technically was playing an empress, a queen, that was, that came into the, you know, ruling and had a coup on her husband when she was super young, but she was super underestimated, but had this really calculating side to her. You got to show all the stuff that's under it. Yeah, she would use her naivete. And I feel like, ooh, I kind of, I think I do that. And so she was like me.

• 43:59Will Arnett?

  Good, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, yeah, because you're a good actor. And also, like, God forbid that when people are like, oh, you're laughing positive all the time. Like, that's a bad thing.

• 44:11Jason Bateman?

  I had a little bit of that experience, Shawnee, with you.

• 44:13Will Arnett?

  Teen wolf, right? Oh, I thought you were saying, because I feel a lot of that.

• 44:17Jason Bateman?

  It's like, well, I'm super hairy on the outside. I'm pretty naked and bald on the inside.

• 44:21Will Arnett?

  I feel a lot of that, sort of like a real teen wolf energy.

• 44:26Jason Bateman?

  No, but Shawnee, I was thinking that.

• 44:28Speaker 03

  It's a whole thing.

• 44:30Jason Bateman?

  Seeing Shawnee, you know, you do that, the one man show a couple of weeks ago. Like, there's so much sort of like, you know, deepness and darkness and at times during that show. And you just do it so effortlessly. I'm like, yeah, there's the guy underneath all the warmth and the generosity that you socially. You know, put forward to people to put them at ease. There's like this incredibly deep, serious.

• 44:56Will Arnett?

  Ferocious.

• 44:57Jason Bateman?

  Under the, yeah, dark.

• 44:59Sean Hayes?

  Fuck, dark.

• 45:00Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 45:00Will Arnett?

  The only part I didn't buy is that you would walk, that you would walk over to the river. Cause I know you'd take a cab or you'd take an Uber. There's no way you'd walk. That was, that took me out.

• 45:09Speaker 03

  Well, I don't think you can't have like, even in like scripts, or I always like, look for this. Like you can't have like incredible joy without like deep sorrow. Like it doesn't.

• 45:19Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. And it's also like any four of us right now talking. It's, it's like we, we have tons and tons of different sides of us that people have seen and people haven't seen. And so for people to think that you don't have that.

• 45:30Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 45:30Sean Hayes?

  You know, is just by default a Hollywood thing, you know, that's like, no, you could never do that because.

• 45:36Will Arnett?

  Yeah. You get typecast for sure. I know all about it. Uh, by the way, so we did, I didn't mention in the, in the opener, uh, L, this, your new show that's gonna premiere. A24 for Apple. Margot's Got Money.

• 45:50Speaker 03

  Troubles.

• 45:51Sean Hayes?

  That title, the name. Margot's Got Money Troubles.

• 45:54Will Arnett?

  Margot's Got Money.

• 45:55Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wait a minute.

• 45:56Will Arnett?

  No, she's got money troubles.

• 45:57Sean Hayes?

  Wait a minute, was this, wait.

• 45:58Will Arnett?

  I was pausing. I was taking a pause.

• 46:00Jason Bateman?

  Was this a documentary on Margot Robbie? Cause we just had her on. She didn't mention having any issues of cash.

• 46:06Speaker 03

  I don't think she has any money troubles.

• 46:09Sean Hayes?

  Wait, L, was this a book?

• 46:11Speaker 03

  It was a book.

• 46:12Sean Hayes?

  I think I read that book. Not sure.

• 46:14Speaker 03

  And it was, um, not sure. Yeah.

• 46:15Will Arnett?

  That was the one.

• 46:17Sean Hayes?

  That was the one I read.

• 46:19Speaker 03

  It had, yeah, the title's very specific. Um, she was.

• 46:23Sean Hayes?

  That's so cool.

• 46:23Speaker 03

  Yeah. She joined, she's a young mom and she doesn't have the cash and so she joins OnlyFans.

• 46:28Sean Hayes?

  Yes. I think, yes. Oh my gosh. This is so cool.

• 46:32Speaker 03

  Yes. And it's, um, it's super, it's, uh, it's cool on a lot of.

• 46:35Will Arnett?

  I mean, first of all, it's got an amazing cast.

• 46:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:38Will Arnett?

  And you and your sister produce it as well, right? You and your sister have a production company together? Is that true?

• 46:44Speaker 03

  Called Llewellyn Pictures.

• 46:46Jason Bateman?

  Well, that's fun.

• 46:47Sean Hayes?

  That's great.

• 46:47Will Arnett?

  That's so fun.

• 46:48Speaker 03

  After our late dog.

• 46:51Jason Bateman?

  We'll be right back.

• 46:55Sean Hayes?

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• 47:39Sean Hayes?

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• 47:57Sean Hayes?

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• 48:40Sean Hayes?

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• 49:04Jason Bateman?

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• 50:30Jason Bateman?

  Skinny Pop, popular for a reason. Back to the show.

• 50:37Sean Hayes?

  I have a dumb, dumb question. Have you guys, other than like the stuff when you were kids, have you done anything as adults together in a film?

• 50:44Speaker 03

  No, and it's about to happen in a month.

• 50:47Will Arnett?

  No way, no way.

• 50:48Sean Hayes?

  What is it?

• 50:49Speaker 03

  Yes, we have never read a line together, never. We've visited each other on set, but we do not, we have never done that. Never been on camera together, other than, you know, me playing her young, but we're obviously not together. And so, yeah, we're doing The Nightingale, which is a bestselling book by Kristin Hannah, and we're playing sisters, and that is a sister's story in World War II.

• 51:11Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow, that's so cool.

• 51:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:14Sean Hayes?

  That'll be huge, that'll be huge.

• 51:16Speaker 03

  I know, and we're excited and nervous.

• 51:17Jason Bateman?

  Will knows a lot about World War II. What portion of the war are we covering and what country?

• 51:22Speaker 03

  It's the French Resistance.

• 51:24Will Arnett?

  Oh, sure.

• 51:25Jason Bateman?

  Oh, sure. Yes, sir. One cigarette.

• 51:28Will Arnett?

  It's the best. I take a cigarette. I go and I kill some Nazis. I leave a bag with explosives next to that car.

• 51:35Speaker 03

  We're still casting. We're still casting. So if you want to give us an audition, you can.

• 51:40Will Arnett?

  I'd love to send in the tape. How? That's excellent. That's so great. I'm so happy that you guys are doing that. That's so cool. You must be, are you nervous? Are you excited? Are you all of the above?

• 51:53Speaker 03

  We are, I think we're all of the above. I think it's also stepping into the unknown a little bit. And people who have worked with both of us say that we work in a very different way. That we're extremely different on set.

• 52:06Will Arnett?

  Oh, cool.

• 52:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, not a bad thing, but just that our energy is very different.

• 52:11Jason Bateman?

  Do you guys, do you guys, do you guys talk every single day?

• 52:14Speaker 03

  Every day.

• 52:15Jason Bateman?

  Every day?

• 52:16Speaker 03

  We are unbelievably close, yeah.

• 52:17Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 52:17Speaker 03

  We hang out. We live close to each other. We talk every day.

• 52:21Jason Bateman?

  I love that. I love that. But wait, we scooted right past your new show.

• 52:25Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 52:25Jason Bateman?

  So tell us about.

• 52:27Will Arnett?

  Margot's got money.

• 52:28Speaker 03

  Troubles.

• 52:28Will Arnett?

  Troubles.

• 52:30Jason Bateman?

  There's no ellipses there? It just goes right through?

• 52:33Will Arnett?

  So it's you and the wonderful Michelle Pfeiffer, whom we adore. We adore Michelle.

• 52:38Sean Hayes?

  That Will just worked with.

• 52:39Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I love her. I love Michelle. She's amazing. Yeah, she's the best. And her husband David, right?

• 52:44Speaker 03

  Yes, David is the, he wrote the show. Yeah, they've never worked together before.

• 52:50Will Arnett?

  They've never?

• 52:51Speaker 03

  This is the first time.

• 52:52Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 52:53Speaker 03

  In this show. Yes.

• 52:55Will Arnett?

  A lot of people working together who've never worked together. So it's, yeah, so it's you and Michelle and...

• 53:02Speaker 03

  Nick Offerman.

• 53:03Will Arnett?

  Nick Offerman?

• 53:04Jason Bateman?

  The great Nick Offerman.

• 53:05Will Arnett?

  The great Nick Offerman, whom we adore.

• 53:07Speaker 03

  Greg Kinnear.

• 53:09Jason Bateman?

  The great Greg Kinnear, some yesterday.

• 53:11Will Arnett?

  We just saw him the other day.

• 53:12Speaker 03

  Someone, you know, an unknown Nicole Kidman.

• 53:14Will Arnett?

  Nicole Kidman.

• 53:15Sean Hayes?

  We're rooting for her.

• 53:16Will Arnett?

  Yeah, Nicole Kidman.

• 53:18Jason Bateman?

  Keep your eye on her.

• 53:19Will Arnett?

  Wikipedia. Jesus. Holy shit, can't be.

• 53:24Will Arnett?

  That's so, that's so great. You must be so excited about the show. Everybody's talking about how great it is.

• 53:29Speaker 03

  Oh, that's so nice. No, I really am. It was also kind of one that, I mean, I was a producer on The Great as well and I...

• 53:37Will Arnett?

  Oh, you were?

• 53:38Speaker 03

  I was, I was. So that was kind of the first time I actually got to see behind the scenes of like, you know, pitching a show for the first time. That was the first time I did it on that. But this, Margot, truly feels like from the ground up, because it was, I read the book before it was published and so I had to talk to Ruffey, who wrote the book and she had to get, you know, it was a real process. And then we assembled this like dynamic team with A24 and David and and the cast. And then we went out and really pitched it hard. And so it just feels like it's definitely this collaboration, but something that I'm, I don't know, I'm very involved in and I love this character.

• 54:21Will Arnett?

  Well, yeah, I thought you were gonna say, I'm sure you're very proud of it, that process of being there right from the, right from the get go and sort of shepherding it all the way through. Do you feel responsibility? I don't mean that in a negative way, but do you feel like this like real care for it in that way?

• 54:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, I think you do feel this care and you feel a little bit of pressure because you, it's kind of like exposing your heart and you hope that that's with every, that's everything. I mean, and you hope that people, you hope that people like it, obviously. I mean, a show also takes so much time to film, too.

• 54:55Jason Bateman?

  Do you like that, do you like that longer involvement, the fact that you're involved with it during, during pitching and developing and pre-production and now and post-production aside from just the filming part of it? Or having gone through that a couple of times now, you're like, yeah, maybe I'll just do like a couple of acting gigs in between, just sort of hit and run, get in, get out. Do you, do you, do you, or would you like to, do you like staying with a project from start to finish and doing the whole thing?

• 55:24Speaker 03

  I kind of got a taste for it now. I feel like I like the power. I think there's something in also being.

• 55:31Sean Hayes?

  That's hilarious.

• 55:33Speaker 03

  Yeah. Being like a child actor, I think you also spend a lot of time. Not that, I mean, we're not harping on this, but it is like my origin story. But, you know, being an observer, like you're cast as the observer who watches the adults do

• 55:49Will Arnett?

  Sure.

• 55:50Speaker 03

  the fun things.

• 55:51Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 55:51Speaker 03

  And you're also on set.

• 55:55Speaker 03

  I, I think I've, I've gotten to a place now where I feel very like in myself where I think it also comes from, okay, like, respect your elders and you don't want to be like, I know too much, or I know more than you, but there does come a point, and I think now that I can say, well, no, maybe I do, because I've been on set since I was two.

• 56:15Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 56:16Speaker 03

  So I've been a lot.

• 56:17Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you've got all this experience.

• 56:19Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 56:19Will Arnett?

  You know what you're talking about.

• 56:20Speaker 03

  Like, you know, how to avert a crisis, or how to problem solve, and what, like, I've seen, and I really learned on the job, like, I didn't go to acting school or anything. So I was learning from these directors, and they all worked in this vastly different way, so I became very malleable.

• 56:37Speaker 03

  You had to be, you know, and, and so I get to put that into the producing process now, and I like that.

• 56:45Jason Bateman?

  In an unapologetic way, you have a seat at the table, legitimate seat at the table. So when you chime in, you don't have to say, oh, sorry, excuse me.

• 56:52Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 56:52Will Arnett?

  I've got an idea.

• 56:53Speaker 03

  I used to, I definitely used to do that, you know. And I, yeah, I don't so much have to anymore. I really like the post-production. I love editing.

• 57:01Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 57:01Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 57:02Jason Bateman?

  Well, then, my next, my next favorite question always is, do you see directing in your future as well, since you've got so much set experience?

• 57:09Speaker 03

  I know, it's such a cliche, everyone's like, oh, yeah, I want to be a director.

• 57:13Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, but it's, I think everybody wants to.

• 57:15Will Arnett?

  You're such a cliche.

• 57:17Jason Bateman?

  But in any occupation, you want that promotion, you want to be able to use what you've been learning, and that usually lives in the job that's just above you, you know? You're constantly learning more about the process, and, and so with directing, it, it allows you to use everything you've been, obviously, taken a look at and absorbing and observing.

• 57:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, I've dreamed about that for a long time, even since I was young, like, and I would write a lot. I don't so much do it as much anymore, but it was, you know, my favorite always in school, and coming up with stories and things, and so I know that that's in my future, but I don't think it's in my near future.

• 57:53Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 57:54Speaker 03

  It's there, yeah.

• 57:55Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. Well, speaking about your near future, what do you, what do you, what are you doing when you're not, I mean, you're constantly working.

• 58:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, this year's been, this year and last year was really...

• 58:06Speaker 03

  Uh, insane, but I always knew that I'm such a freak. I, I love the number five and so.

• 58:12Jason Bateman?

  I do too. That's my favorite number.

• 58:13Speaker 03

  It's my favorite number. Yeah. And we, I, I just felt like 2025 was always I planned, like I did certain things when I was 15, like because the number five, like I planned a lot of stuff.

• 58:25Sean Hayes?

  Why five? Why five?

• 58:27Speaker 03

  I feel like it's an even number, although it's an odd because it's in the middle of all the numbers. Like one to 10.

• 58:34Sean Hayes?

  Very solid.

• 58:35Speaker 03

  Does that make sense?

• 58:36Will Arnett?

  I like, yeah, I like that.

• 58:37Jason Bateman?

  So and you.

• 58:38Will Arnett?

  I like the number five too, for what it's worth.

• 58:40Sean Hayes?

  Love it.

• 58:41Speaker 03

  What do you like, Sean? What do you like?

• 58:43Sean Hayes?

  I like three. I like three.

• 58:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, I kind of like three too.

• 58:45Jason Bateman?

  That's a cousin.

• 58:46Speaker 03

  As well. Yeah.

• 58:47Jason Bateman?

  So then, yeah, what Sean, he was, what Sean.

• 58:49Speaker 03

  I don't know if I even answered, like, what the heck did I just say?

• 58:53Jason Bateman?

  He was talking about.

• 58:53Speaker 03

  You ask me a question, I'm like, yes, I really like the number five. Weirdo.

• 58:59Jason Bateman?

  Well, he was saying like.

• 59:00Speaker 03

  And my sister and her, our friend Chloe, they are going to listen to this. That's why I'm like, my butt cheeks are like clenched. I'm like, because they love this show so much.

• 59:09Sean Hayes?

  We love you guys.

• 59:10Speaker 03

  And I talked to Dakota right before and she's like, you're about to do smart, listen. But she actually, I was like, I'm nervous. She's like, no, it's just a conversation. Like it's not.

• 59:18Sean Hayes?

  We're just hanging out. We're all, we're all just hanging out.

• 59:20Jason Bateman?

  Well, hello to them both.

• 59:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 59:22Jason Bateman?

  But what Sean was saying like about the future, like you're working so much, what do you, have you carved out some like non-work time in your future?

• 59:31Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 59:31Speaker 03

  You know, I, I guess I gotta get better at doing that, but also I'm not, I don't think I'm too. I'm just so, I, I want to do it all.

• 59:40Sean Hayes?

  What do you and Gus, what do you and Gus like to do? What's your favorite thing to do? For Tracy, that's your boyfriend.

• 59:45Speaker 03

  Yes, that's my boyfriend for Tracy. Um, we love going on trips. He has actually been a really nice, gosh, he is such, well, we're very similar in a lot of ways because he's also extremely extroverted, but he's extremely grounded and is able to really ground me. And also, he kind of carves out the time for me and I'm like, I don't even realize it, but like, okay, let's, we're, we're gonna.

• 1:00:09Sean Hayes?

  I love that.

• 1:00:10Speaker 03

  Do this weekend away or we're gonna drive to Santa Barbara. We're gonna set up this trip and, and it's just not, I'm not great at. Organizing, I don't, and, um, and I, I'm good at organizing in my, uh, like with scheduling with work, like that, I'm, I'm very on it. And that's kind of all I think about. And so then he kind of turns me away to also think about those other things. It's a really, it's a spectacular

• 1:00:36Sean Hayes?

  Anchor. We call him anchors. Scotty's my anchor. Everybody needs an anchor.

• 1:00:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, we, um, we really are a good.

• 1:00:43Will Arnett?

  I mean, fucking no comment.

• 1:00:44Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. What are you talking about? Scotty's good. Scotty's my anchor. Everybody needs an anchor.

• 1:00:49Speaker 03

  I'm trying, I'm trying to do that. But also, we're extremely ambitious, like both of us. And so I think it's also, I'm like, yeah, you go do your thing and I go do mine. It's like, you don't got, you don't have to come follow me to set, like come and visit, but also, you know, you don't, I don't need you just like sitting in the trailer. It's like, I know that's boring, you know?

• 1:01:09Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:01:10Speaker 03

  He doesn't want to do that. So we're, you know, we're.

• 1:01:12Will Arnett?

  He's a nice, I've, I've met, I've met your guest a few times over the years. He's a real nice guy, really nice guy. Um, well, that's great. So what, but what do you do like on a day like today?

• 1:01:22Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:01:23Will Arnett?

  And amidst all this stuff you're doing, you're, I mean, right now, you're constantly doing press and screenings and meet and greets and getting ready to work and prepping and blah, blah, blah. What do you do today? What do you do today if you have the afternoon? Like, what are you gonna do? What makes you happy to carve out for you?

• 1:01:40Speaker 03

  Gosh, well, you said ebbs and flows. Like, I get into modes of, like, okay, now I'm like, I love working out, or I love doing this, so I'm gonna go to Pilates and do this. And then, and it's like all or nothing for me. So I'm not in that phase right now at all.

• 1:01:57Sean Hayes?

  What about like arts and crafts stuff?

• 1:01:58Speaker 03

  I have a cooking thing.

• 1:01:59Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

• 1:02:00Speaker 03

  Yes, I love painting and drawing and like, that is in me.

• 1:02:04Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:05Speaker 03

  But it's not, I gotta do it more. Like, I, I think about, I think about it. I'm like, you know what? If I had like a painting room or something, I would be so happy.

• 1:02:16Sean Hayes?

  Absolutely.

• 1:02:16Speaker 03

  But it also feels too hard. I'm like, this is the step of setting it up.

• 1:02:21Sean Hayes?

  You know, you know what my, my dream is? My dream is to have somebody come over. By the way, I did this once. I had somebody come over, this is years and years and years ago with some friends. We got totally stoned. We all smoked pot. And then some woman came over with seven sewing machines and we all made pillows. Like stoned out of our mind and we just made pillows and like that's what we need to do, right? We need to have somebody come over to teach us like, hey, I want to paint. Can you just set some stuff up for me and I'll paint? And then we're done and then we did it.

• 1:02:48Speaker 03

  See, if someone else sets it up for me, I sound terrible. Like if it's set up for me, it's like, okay, I've got to go to this class, then I will do it. Cause I feel also, I'm like, oh no, I don't want to stand up that teacher.

• 1:02:58Sean Hayes?

  That's right.

• 1:02:59Speaker 03

  You know, so I'm like, there's an obligation. But if it's just me alone, then I sit on my computer and I watch Traitors.

• 1:03:06Sean Hayes?

  Same. Obsessed. Seen every episode of every iteration.

• 1:03:09Speaker 03

  Me too. I'm watching so, well, obviously we're watching the one now.

• 1:03:13Jason Bateman?

  There's a British or domestic one, right?

• 1:03:14Sean Hayes?

  There's a Brit, there's a, there's a New Zealand or Australian or whatever.

• 1:03:18Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:03:19Will Arnett?

  Was the English one the first one?

• 1:03:20Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, the English one was the first one.

• 1:03:22Jason Bateman?

  This is like a Survivor type of thing, right?

• 1:03:23Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's like mafia.

• 1:03:27Will Arnett?

  Remember we used to play that JB?

• 1:03:29Jason Bateman?

  Sure. Yeah. You're a great leader.

• 1:03:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, I was wondering if any of y'all watch it. I mean, I want Rob to win.

• 1:03:35Sean Hayes?

  I want Rob to win too, because he's so clever.

• 1:03:38Speaker 03

  I know. And I, see, I, I always want the Traitors to win.

• 1:03:41Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, always. Yeah.

• 1:03:42Speaker 03

  I'm always like that. I also just started the Celebrity UK, which I know is, I'm a little late to. I'm loving it.

• 1:03:48Sean Hayes?

  But do you know who won that? Because I, I just, okay, I won't. Do you have a guess? Do you have a guess?

• 1:03:53Speaker 03

  See, I feel like everyone is on to them really quickly. So I just can't see that. I mean, Kat, I like Kat a lot. So she possibly, I feel like, and Alan, I love, I love Jonathan. I love them, but I just don't, they're all seem to be on them unless they get particular people out. I think Kat and Alan could go.

• 1:04:16Sean Hayes?

  It's a very satisfying ending.

• 1:04:18Speaker 03

  Oh, good. Okay. Good. Yeah. My mom watches it too. And she was like, you're gonna love this. She was like, it's a great thing. Yeah. But I love reality TV. So I just spin, I'm like, okay, I sit. I also have TVs in my home. I don't turn them on. I only watch on my computer.

• 1:04:32Sean Hayes?

  Okay. So they're just decoration or?

• 1:04:34Speaker 03

  Yeah. I, I, I don't, they don't need to be here. It's so weird. And I have a giant computer that is heavy and old and I just can't get rid of it. But the screen is so big. I'm on it right now. And like the tech check this morning, I was like, guys, I don't know any of these wires you sent are going to fit into this archaic thing.

• 1:04:56Sean Hayes?

  It all worked out.

• 1:04:57Jason Bateman?

  While we're paused here, Will, did you want to double back on Sean's pillow party?

• 1:05:04Will Arnett?

  I did. I just, the visual alone.

• 1:05:12Will Arnett?

  You, a bunch of stoned, middle-aged entertainment types in a beautiful Hollywood mansion. Geez, everything I ever, always thought.

• 1:05:22Sean Hayes?

  It was so fun. You guys, we should do it. I'm not even kidding. It's really fun.

• 1:05:26Will Arnett?

  Make sure to, yeah.

• 1:05:28Speaker 03

  I don't know if I...

• 1:05:28Will Arnett?

  Wealth of never.

• 1:05:32Sean Hayes?

  Come on, we'll make pillows.

• 1:05:33Will Arnett?

  We'll do it. We'll do it. Al, listen, you are such a delight.

• 1:05:37Sean Hayes?

  You are a delight.

• 1:05:37Jason Bateman?

  Just a delight, Al.

• 1:05:39Will Arnett?

  So happy to have you. You, I mean, you're just, you're such an impressive actor and you've done so many amazing things. So happy for your new show. Margot's got money troubles.

• 1:05:50Sean Hayes?

  Yes, I'll say.

• 1:05:51Speaker 03

  Money?

• 1:05:52Will Arnett?

  Come on.

• 1:05:53Speaker 03

  Trouble.

• 1:05:53Sean Hayes?

  Trouble.

• 1:05:54Will Arnett?

  Money. Pause troubles. Listen, we're just, it's just such a great, you just bring such positivity and you're amazing and we're just such fans.

• 1:06:05Sean Hayes?

  I could talk to you all day long, all day.

• 1:06:06Speaker 03

  Thank you, God. I feel the same. I feel the same. And my favorite part, I just got to say this because the best part on the doc is when you're worried that ordering the surf and turf is too extravagant. It's unbelievable.

• 1:06:19Sean Hayes?

  Well, but I didn't...

• 1:06:19Speaker 03

  And Jason going, oh, did we go long on that? I mean, that's the best. So when I'm in, when I need a pick-me-up, like, I turn, I watch that on TikTok, like, and I think a lot of people do. I think it is a thing, but it's freaking hilarious.

• 1:06:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah. Well, thank you, my dear.

• 1:06:37Jason Bateman?

  All right, thanks for doing this.

• 1:06:39Sean Hayes?

  We love you, Al. Thank you.

• 1:06:40Jason Bateman?

  Enjoy the rest of your day.

• 1:06:41Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 1:06:41Will Arnett?

  Thank you, Al.

• 1:06:42Speaker 03

  Thank you. Bye, guys. This was so fun, for sure.

• 1:06:45Jason Bateman?

  Thanks, Al.

• 1:06:46Speaker 03

  Thank you for having me on. Bye.

• 1:06:47Jason Bateman?

  You got it. Thanks.

• 1:06:51Sean Hayes?

  Pillow party.

• 1:06:54Jason Bateman?

  Oh, Sean.

• 1:06:55Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:56Jason Bateman?

  I mean. Hey, guys, what should we do tonight? You know, we got all this big bag of weed and what do you think? Should we just go crazy and call that gal with the sewing machines?

• 1:07:09Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:09Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. That sounds sweet, bro. Do you remember her number? Uh huh. Yeah. And what should we do with the sewing machine? Oh, let's make pillows.

• 1:07:19Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, we all make pillows.

• 1:07:20Jason Bateman?

  This is why I never.

• 1:07:21Will Arnett?

  Hey, you know what would be really cool? We should go and pitch. This is on the night, right? This is Sean going.

• 1:07:29Will Arnett?

  You know what we should do? We should go pitch Celebrity Sweatshop, right?

• 1:07:40Sean Hayes?

  Right? Where we all make pillows.

• 1:07:43Jason Bateman?

  Wait. So that was a real delight. Real delight.

• 1:07:48Sean Hayes?

  What a wonderful human being.

• 1:07:49Will Arnett?

  I'm so impressed. She is a wonderful human being. She's got great energy. She's always just, she's always just positive and cool.

• 1:07:57Jason Bateman?

  She was exactly as I had always hoped she would be.

• 1:08:00Will Arnett?

  Yeah. And then just does all this incredible work, constantly doing different stuff. I mean, it's just amazing. She's, she's got one of the new, she's in the, one of the new, what are those?

• 1:08:10Will Arnett?

  You know the thing that I'm talking about.

• 1:08:11Jason Bateman?

  Oh, here he comes.

• 1:08:13Will Arnett?

  No, no, I'm not. It's Hunger Games. She's in the new Hunger Games as well.

• 1:08:17Sean Hayes?

  Oh, she is?

• 1:08:18Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:19Sean Hayes?

  She's on fire. She's amazing.

• 1:08:21Will Arnett?

  She's totally on fire. And I can't wait to see Mark. He's got money troubles.

• 1:08:25Sean Hayes?

  I know, that book was really good.

• 1:08:28Jason Bateman?

  I love that you forgot. Oh, I think I read that book.

• 1:08:31Sean Hayes?

  I know.

• 1:08:31Jason Bateman?

  Well, how, what do you read a book in an hour or something like that?

• 1:08:34Sean Hayes?

  No, I, I, I read like three or four in my life. That was one of them.

• 1:08:38Jason Bateman?

  And so even though you forgot the one of the three.

• 1:08:41Sean Hayes?

  I know.

• 1:08:41Jason Bateman?

  Well, it takes me a month and a half to read a book. I like, I'm not gonna forget if I read a book.

• 1:08:46Sean Hayes?

  Takes me a while.

• 1:08:47Jason Bateman?

  Will, how long does it take you to read like an adult book?

• 1:08:50Will Arnett?

  Well, I've been reading a lot lately, like the last, last two weeks. I'm on my fourth book in the last two weeks.

• 1:08:57Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 1:08:57Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:58Jason Bateman?

  When do you, when do you, when are you doing this?

• 1:09:00Will Arnett?

  At night, sometimes during the day. If I have time down in the day for an hour or whatever, I'll just.

• 1:09:03Jason Bateman?

  So how many pages will you read before you knock off?

• 1:09:07Sean Hayes?

  Sixty pages?

• 1:09:08Will Arnett?

  Depends on how tired I am, yeah, yeah.

• 1:09:10Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, but like on average.

• 1:09:11Will Arnett?

  Sometimes you get in ten, fifteen pages and you're just, eyes are heavy.

• 1:09:16Sean Hayes?

  Right, but usually it's about a half hour of reading and then you're, then you're, then you're sleeping?

• 1:09:20Will Arnett?

  Uh huh.

• 1:09:21Sean Hayes?

  Uh huh.

• 1:09:21Will Arnett?

  Yeah, and I do a lot of reading during the day, too, on my, like, sometimes in the morning I'll wake up if I'm up early.

• 1:09:26Sean Hayes?

  And you enjoy it, you just enjoy reading. I like reading about things I like to read about.

• 1:09:30Will Arnett?

  I get excited, too.

• 1:09:31Sean Hayes?

  But if you sent me a, if you sent me a book about like, I don't know, like motorcycle driving, I don't know.

• 1:09:37Jason Bateman?

  Well, that'd be called.

• 1:09:38Will Arnett?

  Motorcycle before, but you know what would be good to read about would be bicycles.

• 1:09:42Sean Hayes?

  Bicycle riding.

• 1:09:45Will Arnett?

  Boy, that was cheap.

• 1:09:46Sean Hayes?

  That was good, that was good.

• 1:09:47Will Arnett?

  Bye.

• 1:09:50Will Arnett?

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