"Olivia Wilde"

It’s the ham of the family, a.k.a. Olivia Wilde. We dip into a bowl of mixed Pop Tarts: proxy film school, Tony’s mothballs, the Rockwell Technique, and of course a lil Hendrix pickleball. You’re born with it. Welcome to SmartLess.

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

• 0:00Sean Hayes?

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• 2:53Speaker 02

  Hi, I'm Livy Wild. I somehow got talked into being on Smartless. So, I don't know. This is a disaster. Welcome to Smartless.

• 3:23Will Arnett?

  Wiladio. Wiladio. Wiladio.

• 3:31Jason Bateman?

  Can you get a small... I love that you get a nice, small mustache and then start doing the "wiladio."

• 3:37Will Arnett?

  And then go full, like, little pointy goat?

• 3:39Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, like...

• 3:40Will Arnett?

  Wiladio.

• 3:41Jason Bateman?

  Wiladio, che bella!

• 3:44Will Arnett?

  Che bella, mi wiladio!

• 3:47Jason Bateman?

  So, Sean, are those new specs?

• 3:50Sean Hayes?

  Oh, yeah. Do you like them?

• 3:51Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 3:52Sean Hayes?

  Nope, you don't like them?

• 3:53Will Arnett?

  I do like them.

• 3:54Jason Bateman?

  I'm sorry.

• 3:56Sean Hayes?

  You said that so quickly.

• 3:57Jason Bateman?

  No, I do. I do.

• 3:59Sean Hayes?

  They're nice.

• 4:00Jason Bateman?

  Wait, who made the clear horn-rim frames famous? I feel like it was like a Ted McGinley or one of those handsome fellows.

• 4:08Sean Hayes?

  You're welcome. I think I did.

• 4:09Will Arnett?

  Andy Richter.

• 4:10Sean Hayes?

  Oh, Andy Richter wears them.

• 4:12Will Arnett?

  Andy's always worn them, yeah.

• 4:12Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, for a long time.

• 4:14Jason Bateman?

  What did I just see Andy Richter is in?

• 4:16Sean Hayes?

  And he's in Obsession.

• 4:18Jason Bateman?

  Obsession, yes.

• 4:19Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, he was great.

• 4:21Will Arnett?

  I love Andy. Can I just say that just as a general rule?

• 4:24Jason Bateman?

  We all do.

• 4:25Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 4:25Jason Bateman?

  What's not to love?

• 4:27Will Arnett?

  He's so fucking funny.

• 4:29Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, he is funny.

• 4:30Jason Bateman?

  Well, they can take the surprise out of your voice.

• 4:33Will Arnett?

  I'm not surprised, but it's just you have those moments where you just think about something and you go, "God, Andy, God, we used to have so much..." Remember we used to play cards with Andy?

• 4:40Jason Bateman?

  Steve's still alive.

• 4:41Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 4:42Will Arnett?

  No, I know. I'm just saying, remember we used to play cards all the time back in the day?

• 4:46Jason Bateman?

  I know, with Kyle Gass.

• 4:48Will Arnett?

  Yeah, with Kyle. I remember Andy one time at my old place in Venice, remember when he came down the stairs?

• 4:54Will Arnett?

  And he had, somebody, Giles had brought like fudge or something, and Andy came down and he had, there was fudge all around his mouth. And he's like, "Hey, I couldn't find the fudge."

• 5:06Sean Hayes?

  I couldn't find the fudge?

• 5:07Will Arnett?

  I couldn't find the fudge, and it was all around his mouth. He was like, "It wasn't anywhere. I couldn't find it anywhere."

• 5:13Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. Jay, what did you think about Obsession? Wasn't it a good movie?

• 5:17Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I really liked it. Now, was that what you were watching with my wife the other day?

• 5:21Sean Hayes?

  I was watching it with your wife in your house and you weren't there.

• 5:24Jason Bateman?

  I was so jealous.

• 5:25Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 5:25Will Arnett?

  Oh, let me just check my phone.

• 5:27Jason Bateman?

  Scotty was there too.

• 5:28Sean Hayes?

  And Scotty was there, yeah.

• 5:29Will Arnett?

  Let me just see if I, I must have gotten it back here somewhere.

• 5:32Jason Bateman?

  You're gonna pay for that?

• 5:32Sean Hayes?

  I know.

• 5:33Jason Bateman?

  You will pay for that one?

• 5:33Sean Hayes?

  I will pay for that one.

• 5:34Will Arnett?

  No?

• 5:35Jason Bateman?

  You're gonna, you're gonna text the guys after this session, you're gonna say, "Hey, guys, would you trim out the little spot where I totally forgot that Scott was sitting next to me?"

• 5:42Will Arnett?

  I don't, uh...

• 5:43Sean Hayes?

  Wait, Jason, you just nodded to somebody. Is that somebody making you a egg sandwich or something? Ew!

• 5:48Jason Bateman?

  Very close.

• 5:49Sean Hayes?

  Oh, ew, who's there?

• 5:50Jason Bateman?

  Thanks, Morgan!

• 5:53Sean Hayes?

  Who's Morgan?

• 5:54Jason Bateman?

  Morgan is my incredible, um, partner here in, um...

• 6:00Sean Hayes?

  JP?

• 6:00Will Arnett?

  Oh, you've got a partner now. Look at you.

• 6:03Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, she's, she's, she's... Now, I have two partners here. I don't like to say assistants.

• 6:08Will Arnett?

  Yeah, good for you.

• 6:09Jason Bateman?

  Because I like to say relatable.

• 6:11Sean Hayes?

  Sure.

• 6:11Jason Bateman?

  But you know, you know who is assisting my assistant here?

• 6:14Sean Hayes?

  Who's that?

• 6:15Will Arnett?

  Franny.

• 6:15Jason Bateman?

  Francesca Nora Bateman.

• 6:17Sean Hayes?

  Is she there right now?

• 6:18Jason Bateman?

  She is, she is.

• 6:19Sean Hayes?

  Ah, tell her we say hello. I love her.

• 6:20Jason Bateman?

  Want to see her?

• 6:21Will Arnett?

  Yeah, let's see.

• 6:22Jason Bateman?

  Turn the camera. There she is, out there in the production office. Can you see her?

• 6:25Will Arnett?

  Look at that.

• 6:25Sean Hayes?

  Oh, yeah, look at that. Look at her. Look, you're just in some lonely office.

• 6:30Will Arnett?

  You know, you know, by the way, you know who stays relatable?

• 6:33Jason Bateman?

  Hmm?

• 6:34Will Arnett?

  Uh, people who don't say... I want to stay relatable.

• 6:38Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 6:38Will Arnett?

  Because they don't have to, they don't have to curate it.

• 6:41Sean Hayes?

  My insincerity is bleeding through.

• 6:43Will Arnett?

  Yeah, man. What have you got, what is the sandwich that you got, though? Are you, are you gonna dig into it?

• 6:47Sean Hayes?

  I don't know, so we just push forward, we don't talk about your NetJets or... Let's go past that, we'll go past that.

• 6:52Will Arnett?

  Let's talk about that.

• 6:53Sean Hayes?

  Or your Long Island second home.

• 6:55Will Arnett?

  Let's, third.

• 6:56Jason Bateman?

  Look what I got.

• 6:56Will Arnett?

  Let's talk about NetJets. There's Scotty.

• 6:58Sean Hayes?

  Oh, look at Scotty, don't try to make up for it now, Sean.

• 7:01Will Arnett?

  Oh, Scotty, he's doing pray hints. By the way, it's easy travel, you know, you call and then they're there and then they get you from where you need to go.

• 7:08Sean Hayes?

  You should try One Flight.

• 7:08Will Arnett?

  Not a paid ad.

• 7:09Sean Hayes?

  One Flight's a better service.

• 7:10Will Arnett?

  Not a paid ad.

• 7:11Sean Hayes?

  One Flight.

• 7:11Will Arnett?

  Not a paid ad. NetJets.

• 7:12Sean Hayes?

  Guys, this is disgusting.

• 7:14Will Arnett?

  It's so gross, guys. Let's not cut it, though.

• 7:19Will Arnett?

  So, Sean, now Sean, what did Scotty bring you? Is, is, is that just?

• 7:23Sean Hayes?

  Warm milk.

• 7:23Will Arnett?

  A bowl of mixed Pop-Tarts?

• 7:27Sean Hayes?

  No, it's.

• 7:27Will Arnett?

  Warm milk.

• 7:28Sean Hayes?

  It's, it's, it's, uh, it's tea, it's tea with sugar and cream.

• 7:31Will Arnett?

  Sugar and cream. What kind of, um, even with the tea, you can't take your foot off the gas.

• 7:38Sean Hayes?

  No, I think, I think it's artificial, uh, sweetener today.

• 7:41Will Arnett?

  What kind of tea were you having?

• 7:43Sean Hayes?

  Just regular, regular English breakfast tea, yeah.

• 7:45Will Arnett?

  Okay, okay.

• 7:46Sean Hayes?

  You know, there's a cake lady coming, though, remember the cake lady?

• 7:49Will Arnett?

  Well, this is not a surprise. Yeah, but yes, I do remember, yeah, the cake lady.

• 7:52Sean Hayes?

  So, so Jay.

• 7:53Jason Bateman?

  I don't remember, what do you, what do you mean cake?

• 7:54Will Arnett?

  He's got a woman who, I, I've, I've used her, she's amazing.

• 7:57Sean Hayes?

  She's great.

• 7:57Will Arnett?

  And she'll make any cake you want.

• 7:58Jason Bateman?

  What do you mean you've used her, what are you talking about?

• 8:00Will Arnett?

  For, for one of the kid's birthdays.

• 8:01Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, she's, there's a, we call her, her name is Cake Lady, but she has a real name.

• 8:05Jason Bateman?

  Well, let's pull the relatable bus over to the side for a second.

• 8:07Sean Hayes?

  No, she's like 10 bucks a cake.

• 8:09Jason Bateman?

  You don't go down to the fucking store and buy a cake?

• 8:10Sean Hayes?

  No, she's like 10 bucks and she delivers it.

• 8:13Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 8:14Sean Hayes?

  She makes it and she'll deliver it to your house and it's the best cake you've ever had.

• 8:17Jason Bateman?

  Because it's such a drag to go to a store and put some time in to buy your child.

• 8:22Will Arnett?

  By the way, if anybody gets a sighting of JB at a store, please take a pic. Please, snap a pic of JB at a store. Let me tell you, I went to Whole Foods down a, down a Chambers Street.

• 8:33Jason Bateman?

  There are a few things that I like better. Then pushing a cart aisle by aisle by aisle and taking about

• 8:39Sean Hayes?

  Really?

• 8:40Jason Bateman?

  Three hours to, to, to, to, to do ten minutes of shopping.

• 8:44Will Arnett?

  Fucking file under the heading of things that never fucking happen.

• 8:49Jason Bateman?

  I do love a good market session.

• 8:51Will Arnett?

  When was the last time?

• 8:53Jason Bateman?

  I mean, last time was in, um, actually, uh, what, two days ago? I, I had to run down the street to get me and my assistant's assistant, um, some dinner.

• 9:02Sean Hayes?

  Ah.

• 9:02Jason Bateman?

  And, um,

• 9:03Will Arnett?

  Do you go to Whole Foods?

• 9:04Jason Bateman?

  No, I went to this, um, no, uh, uh, uh, this place that is,

• 9:09Will Arnett?

  Oh, I know that, that upscale marketplace.

• 9:11Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, Meadow Lane, right there.

• 9:13Will Arnett?

  Yeah, Meadow Lane. By the way, that place, you'd talk about relatable. It's like the most expensive market in Tri-.

• 9:20Jason Bateman?

  But I hang up, but it's so convenient. It's just down the way.

• 9:23Will Arnett?

  And it's so nice, but it's so aesthetically nice.

• 9:26Jason Bateman?

  It's called Meadow Lane. It's sort of,

• 9:28Will Arnett?

  Sean.

• 9:29Jason Bateman?

  It, it's, it's, it's the rich man's Air One.

• 9:33Sean Hayes?

  Which is like, which is redundant.

• 9:35Jason Bateman?

  It's very small, but it's incredible and,

• 9:38Will Arnett?

  It's nice. I don't mean to, I don't mean to disparage the place. It's very nice.

• 9:42Jason Bateman?

  I know, but they've gotta come down on prices. It's gonna come, it's gonna go out of business. You can't, you can't charge $25 for a prepackaged chicken, Chinese, whatever salad thing.

• 9:51Sean Hayes?

  Wait, do you know what Air One backwards is?

• 9:54Will Arnett?

  Yeah, man.

• 9:55Jason Bateman?

  Nowhere?

• 9:55Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 9:56Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, thanks. Okay, our next guest, guys. Today's guest.

• 9:59Will Arnett?

  Hey, if you fold a dollar bill into three things, then you'll be able to see that there's a message.

• 10:04Sean Hayes?

  Hey, you know what Moore Park is backwards? Moore Park, you know, the street in the valley?

• 10:09Jason Bateman?

  Sure.

• 10:10Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 10:11Jason Bateman?

  Well, tell me.

• 10:12Sean Hayes?

  Crap Room? It's Crap Room.

• 10:14Will Arnett?

  Crap Room, yeah.

• 10:15Jason Bateman?

  Wow, God, my 14-year-old's gonna love that.

• 10:18Will Arnett?

  That's,

• 10:18Jason Bateman?

  Right? Cause she, she goes to school near there. Um, okay, thanks for bringing us down. Guys, sitting and chatting with us today

• 10:26Sean Hayes?

  Oh.

• 10:27Jason Bateman?

  is pure sunshine on feet. This actor-director is a woman I have had the deep pleasure of working with twice.

• 10:35Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 10:35Jason Bateman?

  As an actor, she has done fantastic work in both comedy and drama, in film, stage, and TV. As a director, she's one of the most exciting and sought-after new voices today. And having already done three films, which no doubt there will be more, as many more as she wants, as she wishes. She's a true friend, a real te- Reveal yourself, Olivia.

• 10:59Sean Hayes?

  Oh, really?

• 10:59Jason Bateman?

  And today, your tasty ear meal here. Here's Olivia Wilde.

• 11:03Sean Hayes?

  Wait, how in the world did you get that, Will? Will! Will, how did you get that?

• 11:07Will Arnett?

  Because she's one of the most sought-after directors ever.

• 11:09Sean Hayes?

  Oh, of course. Come on.

• 11:11Jason Bateman?

  That's easy, that's a layup.

• 11:12Speaker 02

  I think you could hear my heavy breathing. I think that's what...

• 11:15Jason Bateman?

  Was that your small dog screaming in the background?

• 11:18Will Arnett?

  That was the last part of the intro, Jason. It says that in her heavy... No one for her heavy breathing, right?

• 11:23Sean Hayes?

  Wilde!

• 11:25Jason Bateman?

  Olivia, welcome to the show.

• 11:27Sean Hayes?

  Welcome, yes.

• 11:28Jason Bateman?

  I feel like it's long overdue. Can we have trouble making your deal or something?

• 11:31Will Arnett?

  Oh my god, is this overdue?

• 11:32Speaker 02

  What? Well, I... Everyone... I finally did every other podcast, and this was it.

• 11:37Will Arnett?

  Whoa, no.

• 11:38Jason Bateman?

  The last... You saved the best for last in this world, right?

• 11:41Speaker 02

  This is so exciting. Sitting here spying on you guys is a really weird, thrilling feeling.

• 11:47Jason Bateman?

  I apologize for all the coffee chat.

• 11:50Will Arnett?

  All our trash.

• 11:51Speaker 02

  It's so great. I want 45 minutes of that and three of me, and then we're...

• 11:56Sean Hayes?

  Well, you're in. Guess what?

• 11:57Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, here it comes. We're not gonna lady talk at all. Yeah, our favorite is to ask you a question and then tell you what our answer is for that question. And then whatever time remains, you can tell.

• 12:09Speaker 02

  Oh, I know. I'm a longtime listener.

• 12:11Jason Bateman?

  Are you?

• 12:13Speaker 02

  Big fan.

• 12:13Jason Bateman?

  Who's your favorite?

• 12:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, of course. You're my favorite, because you brought me on. Will didn't, even though Will and I just worked together.

• 12:21Will Arnett?

  We did.

• 12:22Sean Hayes?

  Oh, you did?

• 12:23Will Arnett?

  We did.

• 12:23Jason Bateman?

  Did you guys have scenes together?

• 12:25Will Arnett?

  We did.

• 12:26Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 12:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 12:27Jason Bateman?

  Wait, that sounds like a lot.

• 12:29Will Arnett?

  We don't want to say too much.

• 12:30Speaker 02

  Can't say so much.

• 12:31Jason Bateman?

  Let's start with that. Tell them about your film coming out, y'all.

• 12:35Speaker 02

  We're in a film called Behemoth.

• 12:38Sean Hayes?

  Sounds big. I'll say.

• 12:39Speaker 02

  It's Behemoth, and directed by Tony Gilroy.

• 12:43Will Arnett?

  The great Tony Gilroy.

• 12:45Speaker 02

  The coolest.

• 12:46Will Arnett?

  Is the coolest guy of all time.

• 12:47Jason Bateman?

  Hey, Will, why don't you try to book him, huh?

• 12:49Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, why don't we get him on?

• 12:50Will Arnett?

  I'd love to have... I am gonna get Tony. I am gonna get Tony.

• 12:53Speaker 02

  You have to. Oh my god.

• 12:54Will Arnett?

  Dude, he... By the way, listener, please look Tony Gilroy up, and you'll be amazed. Just his credits alone, he's just incredible.

• 13:02Speaker 02

  Michael Clayton, his first film somehow, which is bananas.

• 13:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, that he directed. He's an incredible writer, but that's a perfect movie.

• 13:11Jason Bateman?

  You get to Robert Elswit to be the DP on that, right out of the gate.

• 13:14Speaker 02

  It's crazy. It's crazy. It's like Citizen Kane. He's like, how about this? I'll try this job and it's perfect. But he's so cool and so chill and he makes it look so easy. I was just entirely obsessed with him and his wife. He's got a real cool thing, like you and Amanda, Jason. He's like that. They're like just cool and obsessed with each other.

• 13:37Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 13:37Speaker 02

  Amanda's cool.

• 13:38Jason Bateman?

  She carries a cool for both of us.

• 13:40Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 13:41Will Arnett?

  Yeah, the great Tony Gilroy. God, we love him.

• 13:43Speaker 02

  We love him.

• 13:43Will Arnett?

  I will say, can I tell you something funny? Olivia, it happened to me last week.

• 13:48Jason Bateman?

  I want to listen. Let me listen.

• 13:49Will Arnett?

  I had, well.

• 13:50Speaker 02

  No, this is for us.

• 13:51Will Arnett?

  So I had, I had dinner with Tony like two weeks ago. And, and here in LA and then I.

• 13:58Jason Bateman?

  To talk about reshooting your stuff?

• 13:59Speaker 02

  That's weird. I was here, but anyway, keep going.

• 14:02Will Arnett?

  We just got you. And I, and I, um, we split the bill. So we both put our cards down. And we signed the thing, whatever we split.

• 14:10Jason Bateman?

  Surprised he got half out of you.

• 14:11Will Arnett?

  Couple of days later, couple of days later. No, I did go through the bill. I kept going, you had two drinks, right? You hadn't, because I didn't touch.

• 14:20Jason Bateman?

  Who had the French fry?

• 14:20Will Arnett?

  If I'm looking at the dessert, like I never even touched it. And so then, so we split. And then a couple of days later, I go shopping to buy a few new items to get some clothes. And, and the bill was, was pretty hefty. And I give him the card. The guy gets it back. And he hands me the card back and I'm talking to my friend and I look down and it says Tony Gilroy.

• 14:38Speaker 02

  Tony Gilroy.

• 14:39Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 14:39Will Arnett?

  So I go, and then I text him. I go, hey, man, um, so listen, you're about to get a big.

• 14:45Jason Bateman?

  Thanks for the tops.

• 14:46Will Arnett?

  And so he goes, oh shit. And he goes, I'm going back to New York. He goes, all right, I'll come over and grab it from you. I'm right around the corner. And he goes, uh, he goes, I don't, I'm trying to think if I bought anything in the last couple of days. And there was a pause in the text and he goes, the only thing I thought I, I think I bought, embarrassingly enough, are mothballs.

• 15:05Speaker 02

  What?

• 15:08Speaker 02

  That's relatable.

• 15:11Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, he's got some, the guy's got a lot of cashmere.

• 15:13Speaker 02

  Oh, he does, he does. A lot of cashmere. I bet he sleeps in cashmere.

• 15:18Will Arnett?

  Yeah, he sure does.

• 15:18Speaker 02

  But this movie is, is starring Pedro Pascal and I have no idea when it comes out, but it's gonna be so good because there are at least seven composers on that film. It's a film about music. And Pedro plays a cellist and you also play a musician.

• 15:37Will Arnett?

  Yes.

• 15:37Speaker 02

  Did you get to play music in the movie?

• 15:39Will Arnett?

  No, no, I'm kind of.

• 15:41Speaker 02

  I read it. I think I read it. I read my scenes. No, I read it.

• 15:45Will Arnett?

  You thought it was about.

• 15:46Jason Bateman?

  What, what, what instrument did they say your character played, Will?

• 15:51Will Arnett?

  They just said it's just a bunch, just, he's just kind of like an all around kind of.

• 15:55Jason Bateman?

  Whatever's available?

• 15:56Will Arnett?

  Yeah, and he's a dude, kind of, you often like, I don't know if you're catching my 10, 10,000 yard stare, he's kind of a guy that's got a lot going on inside, you know?

• 16:03Jason Bateman?

  I love when you, I love when you wet the reed. Hopefully it's some sort of wind instrument.

• 16:07Speaker 02

  And let the spit out.

• 16:13Jason Bateman?

  So truly, it's about, it's about, it's about conductors, composers?

• 16:17Will Arnett?

  Sort of, right?

• 16:19Speaker 02

  Yeah, and like film composition, like music for a film. And it's kind of a love letter to that world and they show that process, which is so cool.

• 16:28Jason Bateman?

  That's cool. Wow, yeah, that is something that, that your average moviegoer does not get a chance to learn about that much.

• 16:35Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 16:35Will Arnett?

  It's fascinating. It's really, really fascinating, kind of getting in and out of them, the people who, who inhabit that world and what they are and, you know, and some of them are just the most brilliant.

• 16:44Speaker 02

  And Will plays Pedro's brother.

• 16:46Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 16:46Speaker 02

  Put that together in your head.

• 16:48Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 16:48Speaker 02

  Make that make sense. And it does, because you're that good. It was the tan. It's the tan that you currently have.

• 16:54Jason Bateman?

  That's why he's still wearing all the makeup.

• 16:57Will Arnett?

  Thank you.

• 17:00Jason Bateman?

  No.

• 17:01Will Arnett?

  You guys.

• 17:02Jason Bateman?

  All right, well, let's.

• 17:03Will Arnett?

  Talk about me like I'm not here.

• 17:05Jason Bateman?

  No.

• 17:06Speaker 02

  Good.

• 17:06Jason Bateman?

  All right, so we've, we've, we've got, we started at the end. Let's go back to the beginning.

• 17:11Will Arnett?

  To the beginning.

• 17:13Jason Bateman?

  Hey, Livy.

• 17:14Speaker 02

  1942.

• 17:15Jason Bateman?

  I don't think I've ever called you Livy. Now, this has gotten some press before and I apologize to ask you about it, but maybe some of our listeners haven't discussed it.

• 17:25Speaker 02

  Right away.

• 17:27Jason Bateman?

  But it's, but it's, but it's, it's cute. I like it. You had to change your name, didn't you doll?

• 17:34Speaker 02

  I, I, you know, I, I didn't have to. I chose to.

• 17:37Jason Bateman?

  Well, you kinda had to. Let's walk the audience through the original name.

• 17:42Sean Hayes?

  Oh yeah, I don't know this. What's the original name?

• 17:44Jason Bateman?

  It's fun.

• 17:46Speaker 02

  It's real fun.

• 17:47Jason Bateman?

  It's fun, but it's, but it's, uh, it's, it's got some real lineage to it too. So go, go ahead here, guest. You talk.

• 17:53Speaker 02

  Okay. Thank you so much. I was born with a different name. My family name is actually Coburn, but it's pronounced Coburn, but it's spelled, and I'm gonna, I weirdly have a visual for this. No, listener, you won't get it, but it's for these guys. But my last name is?

• 18:13Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow. Cockburn.

• 18:14Speaker 02

  Cockburn.

• 18:15Will Arnett?

  Sean, you were just talking about Cockburn like two days ago.

• 18:18Speaker 02

  Yeah, that is, that's.

• 18:20Will Arnett?

  Right? Cause did it, were you saying something?

• 18:22Sean Hayes?

  By the way, I'm still talking about it.

• 18:24Speaker 02

  When are you not talking about it?

• 18:25Will Arnett?

  Particular is behind a dumpster. Anyway, whatever.

• 18:28Speaker 02

  You got a real case of the Cockburn.

• 18:30Sean Hayes?

  I mean, if anybody has any ointment or anything.

• 18:33Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 18:33Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 18:34Sean Hayes?

  Please let me know.

• 18:34Jason Bateman?

  Wait, it's really pronounced Coburn?

• 18:36Speaker 02

  It's, okay, but this is the thing.

• 18:37Will Arnett?

  That's not unusual.

• 18:38Speaker 02

  In Scotland, it is pronounced Coburn. I've never expected anyone in my life to ever be able to, to, to get that, to predict that. So.

• 18:48Sean Hayes?

  C O C K. By the way, so people can say.

• 18:51Speaker 02

  Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. C O C K B U R N.

• 18:54Sean Hayes?

  Cockburn.

• 18:54Speaker 02

  Very literally how you would imagine it being spelled. And it's, um, a, a name to grow up with to build character, you know, to, it's, it's a boy named Sue. And it, um, yeah, my family are all amazing writers and journalists and just badass people.

• 19:13Sean Hayes?

  And that book you just held up, is that somebody from your family?

• 19:15Speaker 02

  Yeah, this is, my, my sweet assistant had, has built this little tower for the microphone and she happened to use all of these books that are written by my family just to intimidate me.

• 19:25Sean Hayes?

  That's amazing.

• 19:26Speaker 02

  To remind me I haven't done shit in my life in there. They're very impressive. But they, they're all amazing. Yeah.

• 19:31Jason Bateman?

  Well then, but so, uh, A, how early did you change the name?

• 19:35Speaker 02

  Right.

• 19:36Jason Bateman?

  And B, you, you landed on Wild because of your affinity for?

• 19:40Speaker 02

  Oscar.

• 19:41Jason Bateman?

  Uh huh.

• 19:41Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow.

• 19:42Speaker 02

  Yes. And so I changed it when I was 18. I, um, write when you legally can, if you can believe it.

• 19:51Jason Bateman?

  But hang on, but you went through the toughest teasing years with that name?

• 19:55Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. Yeah.

• 19:56Jason Bateman?

  How'd that go?

• 19:57Speaker 02

  I think it's, I truly think it's good for you. I think, I think that everyone should be given one really devastating part of their name. Just so you, I was just talking to Dax about this because he also, he, this was also where he wanted to start. He was like, it was like, start.

• 20:16Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, well, we are a child of that podcast. Wait, that's true. I've never spoken to Dax about his name. What do we know about, what do we know about Dax's first name?

• 20:27Speaker 02

  It's actually Cockburn.

• 20:29Jason Bateman?

  No, but like, what is, what is, is Dax short or anything?

• 20:33Speaker 02

  Dax is actually his name. No, I think it's Dax. I think he was born Dax, right?

• 20:36Will Arnett?

  I forget why his mom. Daxel. What was the deal with that?

• 20:39Speaker 02

  Daxel.

• 20:40Jason Bateman?

  Isn't that weird? I've never asked him about that.

• 20:42Speaker 02

  Daxel.

• 20:42Will Arnett?

  I have, and I forget.

• 20:44Speaker 02

  Daxel.

• 20:44Sean Hayes?

  So wait a minute, Olivia, so, so did you, so, when you, so 18, why 18? Because, so you wanted to change it forever?

• 20:53Speaker 02

  Well, no, I'm, you know, I, I moved out here. I came right from boarding school. I came right to LA and I was a casting assistant. And I was doing, I was going to auditions and I was like, I want to forge my own path. And I had, I wanted to change my name. And I had like great affinity for other people who had done that. I thought it was really cool when other people had done that. And I was like, I want, what would I do? And I, the first play I did that I really loved was The Importance of Being Earnest. And then I read everything that Oscar Wilde wrote and I just became obsessed with him. And he's Irish, my family's Irish, so that's how it happened.

• 21:33Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's such a great name.

• 21:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, I didn't think it would be interpreted so like pornographically. Like the first 10 years of my career, every headline, every magazine was just like, get wild, like born to be wild, wet and wild. And I was like, oh, fuck, I didn't really, I didn't really think this through.

• 21:52Will Arnett?

  Could use a little Cockburn right now.

• 21:56Sean Hayes?

  She kept it as a middle name.

• 21:57Speaker 02

  I did, yeah.

• 21:59Sean Hayes?

  No. Wait, but what about being an assistant casting director? Was that, now, I would imagine that would have given you some comfort as you started auditioning, that you'd kind of been on the other side of it and you kind of,

• 22:12Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 22:13Sean Hayes?

  Was it less intimidating?

• 22:15Speaker 02

  You know, I did it because Keener had done it. I was obsessed with Catherine Keener and she had done it.

• 22:19Sean Hayes?

  Catherine Keener.

• 22:20Speaker 02

  And it's not something most casting directors will let you do. Like, they don't usually hire wannabe actors because it's like dangerous. You have little spies in the office. But I worked for Malley Finn. Do you guys remember Malley? Did you audition?

• 22:33Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 22:34Speaker 02

  She was a legend. And so I worked for her first when I was 16 and then when I was 18. So when I was 16, I did it for a summer and then she let me come back at 18 and have a real job. And I worked there for almost a year and it was wild. I really saw how the sausage was made.

• 22:49Sean Hayes?

  So were you outside, like, in the reception area and watching everyone practice their faces?

• 22:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:55Sean Hayes?

  And mop their brow?

• 22:56Speaker 02

  Oh, my God. And it was so many people I later worked with and I was like, I've seen you

• 23:00Sean Hayes?

  No way.

• 23:01Speaker 02

  in another light. When you're mad at me because it's taking too long and parking is annoying and you're late and you want coffee.

• 23:09Sean Hayes?

  Uh huh.

• 23:11Sean Hayes?

  We'll be right back.

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• 25:34Jason Bateman?

  All right, back to the show.

• 25:37Will Arnett?

  Did it help you at all, like, understand the audition process? Like, did you feel like it gave you a leg up?

• 25:43Speaker 02

  Yeah. Also, she had crazy high standards. So she would not accept anybody unprepared or not off-book. Like, she would stop people and say, "Why don't you come back when you've done the work?" And I loved that it gave me this sense of, like, "You better be really prepared." Like, I never have gone to an audition without being, without being prepared. But she had crazy stories. And the thing that I love is that while I was working there, there was, like, this great legend. Hang on, let me drink my coffee, because...

• 26:10Jason Bateman?

  Go ahead. Pause. This is what the editing is. Just trim it right out.

• 26:14Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 26:14Jason Bateman?

  It's gonna be smooth as silk.

• 26:15Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. So while I was working there, there was, like, the legend of the Sam Rockwell audition. And it was like, she would tell us, like, "The best audition I've ever seen was Sam Rockwell auditioning for The Green Mile."

• 26:28Sean Hayes?

  Jason's directing him right now? No.

• 26:30Speaker 02

  Let me tell you this, and please repeat this to him at work today. So she said, he came in and it was the last day of the director's sessions, the last possible day you could audition, and he came in and he had been given the wrong scenes. And this man, Sam Rockwell, he didn't even pause. He said, well, give me, give me the correct scenes and I'll go learn them really quickly. And they said, that's impossible, Sam. It's, it's 10 pages of dialogue. You can't possibly, no one could do it. And he was like, just give me a chance. I, I don't want to miss this opportunity. So they gave him the right scenes. He goes into the hallway. They only have five minutes to give him to learn the lines. He comes back in and he nails it. And they were floored and he got the role. And she said, that, that's an actor who can work that quickly. So years later,

• 27:14Speaker 02

  I'm working with Sam and I'm sitting next to him in the makeup chair and I was like, Sam, it's so nice to meet you. What an honor. I have to tell you, I, I always heard this story when I was an assistant and it just really inspired me. And he goes, oh, oh yeah. That was like a thing I used to do. That, that worked every time.

• 27:33Sean Hayes?

  Oh, really?

• 27:34Speaker 02

  And I was like, are you fucking kidding me?

• 27:36Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's great.

• 27:37Speaker 02

  I have been

• 27:38Sean Hayes?

  Brilliant.

• 27:39Speaker 02

  Like he, I thought that this, I revered his ability to like flash memorize. He knew. He had the correct size. It was a whole performance.

• 27:49Sean Hayes?

  Oh my god.

• 27:50Speaker 02

  So it's so genius because it lowers their expectations. Then if you even like say half the things right, they're like, god damn, this man learned this in five minutes.

• 27:58Sean Hayes?

  He's a crafty bugger.

• 28:00Will Arnett?

  He's a real operator, that Rockwell.

• 28:02Jason Bateman?

  I better keep my knees bent.

• 28:03Speaker 02

  He's like, and the way it's so standing, he's like, oh yeah. That's just like a thing I used to do. Oh yeah. And I was like, wow. He deserves an Oscar.

• 28:13Sean Hayes?

  I don't know if I told this before, but we can cut this out if it's boring. Already too boring?

• 28:18Speaker 02

  No, no, no, we're good.

• 28:19Will Arnett?

  Sean, cut, pre-cut.

• 28:21Jason Bateman?

  Pre-cut.

• 28:22Speaker 02

  Pre-cut.

• 28:25Sean Hayes?

  So I went to go audition for The Bucket List with the brilliant Rob Reiner, rest his soul, he was amazing. And he, and I walk in and I had the wrong sides, right? I worked on it for a long time. And I walked in and I had all, like, it wasn't even slightly wrong. It was completely, they rewrote all these scenes. And I started auditioning with the, with the scene and he's like, "What are you doing?" And I'm like, "What do you mean?" And he's like, "These are, "Who gave you these sides?" "Am I agent?" He's like, "No, there's a whole new script." And he's like, "I'm like, I didn't know that." I go, "Great, then let me come back a week later and I'll go work on them." So I work on them and I had this bit already and I walk in and it's just me and Rob and like, a producer, a couple of producers and a cast director. And I was like, "You ready?" He's like, "Yeah." And then I, I started going,

• 29:09Sean Hayes?

  "Uh, why did you order the so bad, like the worst acting you've ever seen on purpose?" I go, "Why did you order the code red? I didn't tell you to order the code red. You want the truth? You can't handle the truth."

• 29:19Will Arnett?

  No, no.

• 29:21Sean Hayes?

  And I stopped and he's laughing and I go, "Did I get the wrong side?"

• 29:27Speaker 02

  Really great.

• 29:28Will Arnett?

  That's so good.

• 29:29Sean Hayes?

  I started doing the scene from A Few Good Men.

• 29:31Will Arnett?

  That's so good.

• 29:33Jason Bateman?

  Did he give me the part?

• 29:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I got it, yeah.

• 29:35Jason Bateman?

  Nice, very nice. So now, Olivia, what, now that you're on the other side of the table in these auditions, as you're directing these things, are you, are you incredibly more compassionate?

• 29:46Speaker 02

  Yes, and I take like 12 hours per session because I'm like, "You go." I want to hear it all, even if I know from the first moment that it's not gonna be them. I'm like, "I, this is your time." And it's a disaster for everyone else because I will milk it. It, it's so hard. Auditioning is a fucking nightmare. And these people, they come and they're so vulnerable and, yeah. Being on that side definitely made me a little, a little kinder.

• 30:13Will Arnett?

  But there's so much more also, um, self-taping now, right? It's all self-tape, isn't it?

• 30:17Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 30:18Jason Bateman?

  That, that part seems fantastic, right? Where you can just record your audition.

• 30:22Sean Hayes?

  The pressure's off.

• 30:23Will Arnett?

  I like the room, I like the room.

• 30:25Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:26Jason Bateman?

  Well, but what if you don't do well? What if you forget your lines? With, with the self-tapes, you don't send it until you're happy with it.

• 30:31Speaker 02

  But you overthink it and I, I mean, can you imagine? How much the overthinking and also what I find is when people send me tapes, they've overthought the the framing, the lighting. People have full setups now and I'm like, you don't need that. I'd rather have someone's like shitty iPhone selfie video in their car.

• 30:48Sean Hayes?

  Right.

• 30:49Speaker 02

  On the way to their real job than than like.

• 30:52Will Arnett?

  At a red light.

• 30:52Speaker 02

  Yeah. Rather than like a full setup that I'm like, you didn't have to do that for me. I don't need all this.

• 31:00Sean Hayes?

  But Olivia, what what what made you? How did you know that you wanted to just move to Los Angeles and work in a casting director's office? Like.

• 31:08Speaker 02

  Well, truly Keener.

• 31:09Will Arnett?

  You moved from where?

• 31:10Speaker 02

  I read that Keener done it. I'm why I moved. I was at boarding school in Massachusetts.

• 31:14Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 31:15Speaker 02

  Who went to boarding school here? You said somebody did. Oh, you did?

• 31:18Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 31:18Speaker 02

  Where did you go?

• 31:19Will Arnett?

  In Canada. We don't talk about it. We had a bad breakup. Boarding school and I had a bad breakup.

• 31:25Speaker 02

  Okay. Yeah. Well, it mine was it's tough, but I I went to a fancy one. I can't complain. It was very bougie, but I I graduated and left the suburbs of Massachusetts after growing up in New York and then DC. And I had never spent much much time in the West Coast. I thought LA sounded like this, like incredible mecca of excitement. And I came out here and took like two city buses to work every day in the casting office. And then started auditioning and, you know, kind of like scraped my way up slowly. But it was really the dream from the beginning. So for me, it was very exciting, even just to be here.

• 32:05Will Arnett?

  Where'd you stay when you came out? Did you? Did you move into the Oakwoods?

• 32:08Speaker 02

  No, I that would have been fun. That sounded so fun for those people.

• 32:12Will Arnett?

  I did. I did a few pilot seasons.

• 32:14Sean Hayes?

  So for Tracy, that's a place where the actors would go stay when they.

• 32:18Will Arnett?

  It was like a corporate housing and there would be that thing. I remember pilot season, you'd have like six auditions a day and you're not getting anything. And and the back gate is on on Barham over there on the way down the hill to towards Warner Brothers. And on the back end, when you leave, there's a sign on the gate and you had to wait for it to slowly open and it said, "Smile, it's showtime."

• 32:38Speaker 02

  Oh, so dark.

• 32:41Will Arnett?

  And there'd be day and it's like February and it's raining all day and you're like going back for a crappy pilot and you're just feeling like, "My life is worthless. I'm 31, nothing is happening."

• 32:53Jason Bateman?

  Smile, it's showtime.

• 32:55Will Arnett?

  Fuck me, man.

• 32:56Speaker 02

  Well, I had given myself a limit because I had taken, I deferred from college and I was like, "I'm giving myself a year," or like nine months, and if I don't book anything in that time, I'll go. I think that's good. I think, I think giving yourself a little bit of a deadline.

• 33:10Jason Bateman?

  What was the, what was the thing that you would have gone back and studied in college?

• 33:13Speaker 02

  I, I mean, acting, I mean, it would have, I, I think I would have studied, I, I really probably would have become a writer like everyone else in my family, or I would have tried. So, but now if I went back, which I like to fantasize about, I think it would be like completely, I think I want to study neuroscience. I'd like to go and do, wouldn't that be cool? There'd be a bunch of math I'd have to catch up on though, which is not.

• 33:36Jason Bateman?

  I've got a couple of friends that are doctors and I just, they walk on water to me. I just like, that's really,

• 33:42Speaker 02

  I know.

• 33:43Jason Bateman?

  You certainly aren't born with any sort of natural talent to cut people's brains open and fix it, right? Like, you could be born with talent to throw a football 100 yards or whatever, but you don't come out with it. So it's all learned. You have to learn so much and you don't learn it until you read it or it's explained to you or you have to retain all that.

• 34:06Will Arnett?

  He respects discipline?

• 34:08Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 34:08Jason Bateman?

  And, and, and self-education. I just, I think it's incredible.

• 34:12Speaker 02

  I wonder if they are born though with something. Maybe you are born with.

• 34:15Jason Bateman?

  Well, you just, you have to, an affinity to want to.

• 34:17Speaker 02

  Greater intelligence.

• 34:18Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, or, or learn, or learn that.

• 34:20Will Arnett?

  That's why I'd get into neuroscience because I'd want to get in there and see if they are born with it, like, you know what I mean?

• 34:25Jason Bateman?

  Get in, cut them open and look for natural talent.

• 34:29Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you fucking dummy. That's why I'm doing it.

• 34:33Will Arnett?

  You think Dr. Gary walks on water, by the way?

• 34:35Jason Bateman?

  I do. He's an emergency room physician.

• 34:38Will Arnett?

  No, you just respect his golf game because he's so straight and he's always in the fairway.

• 34:43Sean Hayes?

  But what about, I have a friend that was like, he's like, I don't trust doctors. I don't believe in them. I think, you know, statins, like, just, he goes on and on about like, what's-

• 34:52Jason Bateman?

  You're talking about RFK Jr.?

• 34:53Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 34:55Jason Bateman?

  Your top dog?

• 34:56Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I'm having dinner with him tonight. No, no, but, top dog. No, but like, what do you think about these people who don't ever, who constantly put doctors down? I'm with you. I'm like, I've taken the two choices about someone who, you know, stuff you read online or like self-help, whatever, and somebody who's studied it day in and day out. I'm gonna go with the guy who studied it.

• 35:20Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, just assuming that those doctors must be wrong. Like, wait, what?

• 35:24Will Arnett?

  Also, that there's a bigger conspiracy at play here that they're looking to take the, what is it? Take the world over?

• 35:30Jason Bateman?

  They've all organized and figured out how to trick us all.

• 35:33Sean Hayes?

  Right, right.

• 35:34Will Arnett?

  Sean trusts doctors too much. I mean, I would say that, maybe.

• 35:37Speaker 02

  Are you over-medicated?

• 35:39Jason Bateman?

  At Cedars. No, they call him paddles when he comes in. He's got Afib and he's always getting it fired up.

• 35:47Speaker 02

  I mean, I had to play a doctor to be anywhere near it.

• 35:50Jason Bateman?

  House, let's talk about house.

• 35:51Speaker 02

  That wasn't me trying to like segue into my career at all.

• 35:55Jason Bateman?

  Wild in the house.

• 35:56Sean Hayes?

  We appreciate the help.

• 35:57Speaker 02

  No.

• 35:58Will Arnett?

  And for our Canadian listeners, it's the show known as House.

• 36:01Speaker 02

  Yes, created by Canadians.

• 36:03Jason Bateman?

  Wasn't that next door to us over there on the Fox lot for Arrested Development?

• 36:07Sean Hayes?

  I thought you meant Canada.

• 36:08Speaker 02

  Oh, man. I wish I was on your show.

• 36:12Jason Bateman?

  I wish we were all back on the 20th lot.

• 36:14Speaker 02

  Wasn't that great? Just going to Apple Pan every day for lunch. Apple Pan's in my life.

• 36:19Jason Bateman?

  Is that still there?

• 36:20Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 36:21Jason Bateman?

  I think it is there. I think Irving Azoff bought it.

• 36:22Sean Hayes?

  I go there after therapy.

• 36:23Jason Bateman?

  Didn't Irving Azoff buy Apple Pan?

• 36:25Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 36:25Jason Bateman?

  Or am I thinking of Nate Nelson?

• 36:26Speaker 02

  You're correct. Maybe both.

• 36:28Will Arnett?

  Sean, you go there after therapy, so like, once all the feelings come up, you go to stuff on Back Down?

• 36:33Speaker 02

  Yes. With the tuna melt and the milkshake.

• 36:36Sean Hayes?

  Yes, so good.

• 36:37Will Arnett?

  And fries.

• 36:39Jason Bateman?

  All right, all right. So we're now, so we're back, we go back in the time machine. What is Olivia Coburn watching when she's a wee lass that's inspiring her to become an actor?

• 36:50Speaker 02

  Okay, this is the thing. My, I think about this a lot now. My family, we watched a lot of comedy together. And it is my greatest memory from childhood is, is the sound of my parents laughing and all of us laughing. And my mom has a really funny thing. She still like cries when she laughs. And it's just adorable. And she would always be like wiping away tears and my dad laughing so hard, all of us. And when I think about it, it was a lot of comedy that I wouldn't have been absorbing the real meaning of. I mean, a lot of- Taxi, All in the Family. Yeah. And, and like, we watched, um, like, like, a lot, like, a lot of comedy that was probably a little too adult. And then a lot of, you know, we watched like Wayne's

• 37:32Speaker 02

  World a thousand times. Like, for some reason, Wayne's World was like a huge movie in our family. But a lot of SNL. And it was a real joy to just sit and watch, you know, all the Monty Python together, a lot. Like, we just, it was the best. And I think for me, watching comedy, even watching, like, for me, I Love Lucy, we, I watched a lot of old comedy television.

• 37:57Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, we do too. I do too. I watch Cheers a lot.

• 37:59Speaker 02

  Cheers, the best.

• 38:01Will Arnett?

  I love Cheers. God, I love Cheers.

• 38:02Speaker 02

  And, and so I think about like, oh, of course, that's where I find myself now wanting to make comedies because it's just, I, I think it is probably the happiest memories from childhood. I think I'm trying to recreate that feeling.

• 38:14Will Arnett?

  But did you go like, oh, I'm gonna go and do this and I wanna be in comedy? Like, was that like a thing?

• 38:19Speaker 02

  Yes, yes. Yeah. I think probably because it was, I probably at the earliest age saw how happy it was making my, my parents. Like, I think, and then I would, I was the ham of the family. And so I would make them laugh. And then I would, I was the hamon of the family. And I would go and like, just entertain everyone. And they always had parties, my family, my parents are very social and very good hosts. And so they had these amazing parties all the time. And it was my joy in life to go and like, perform as the little kid. So, but I really think it was from watching all these great movies together. And I, I think about it because I'm like, am I showing my kids enough, like, great films? I hope so.

• 39:00Will Arnett?

  Jason, you're good about it. With, with Franny, you've been so good about it.

• 39:02Jason Bateman?

  I put them in front of the TV before they could even speak. Cause that, that, that was my upbringing. I mean, that did like, you know-

• 39:09Will Arnett?

  Cause you were playing golf.

• 39:10Jason Bateman?

  Well, there was that.

• 39:11Speaker 02

  You're busy.

• 39:12Jason Bateman?

  But, you know, they gotta learn somehow, you know? Colors and numbers and things.

• 39:16Will Arnett?

  You've talked to the last couple of years, like you and Franny talk about film and you you got, you sort of put a lot of good stuff in front of her, like that's been important to you.

• 39:24Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, really important to me. It's, because that's what I had with my dad. It was great subject matter and, and, and shared references and, um, yeah, I just, I, I love it. Yeah, you don't want to expose your, your, your four-year-old to the wire, but, um, you know, it's just like, uh, common sense. I, I'm not afraid of screens.

• 39:42Speaker 02

  And when they get it, it's so great. But sometimes they'll be like, they'll come back from their dad's house and be like, we had to watch 12 Angry Men. And I'm like,

• 39:52Speaker 02

  I don't know if that's...

• 39:53Jason Bateman?

  Well, Sud's, you know.

• 39:55Will Arnett?

  Sud loves the 12 Angry Men.

• 39:58Speaker 02

  Otis is like, oh my god.

• 40:00Sean Hayes?

  What are your, what are your kids, what are your go-to, uh, whether they repeat, like they, they'll watch the same one movie over and over?

• 40:06Speaker 02

  Oh, well, I miss when they were really into like musical theater. They, I mean, Otis used to be obsessed with Singing in the Rain. And it was so sweet. He would watch it over and over and over again. And, you know, Mary Poppins and all that. And now, oh, now it's, it's more, actually, the thing that I love that he's into is Godzilla, the original, the old Godzilla's.

• 40:27Sean Hayes?

  Oh, no way? With like the claymation.

• 40:29Speaker 02

  Yeah, like Mothra. Have you seen that? The 1960's Godzillas are so cool and beautiful. And he and I went to Japan a couple of weeks ago on like a little mom-son trip. We went for a week.

• 40:42Jason Bateman?

  So jealous.

• 40:43Speaker 02

  And it was the best. It was like, it was just the greatest trip I've ever taken with another person alone. Like it was, we laughed constantly. And it was, it came from our shared Godzilla obsession.

• 40:54Will Arnett?

  Can I, can I just say as an aside, have you guys been to Japan before, Sean?

• 40:58Sean Hayes?

  No, I wanna go.

• 40:58Jason Bateman?

  I've been a couple of times as a kid and I have actually promised that exact trip Olivia just took to, to both girls individually, just father-daughter time. And I have not, I have not done it yet.

• 41:10Will Arnett?

  I've talked about with Abel, the same thing. Japan is the greatest place. I couldn't love Japan anymore. It's ama- it's amazing.

• 41:19Speaker 02

  And it's great. For kids, it's so clean. Like Otis couldn't get over the fact that there's no trash on the street. And there's no trash cans. So it's not because like, oh, they have so many trash cans. It's that they just respect the city enough to not litter. It's the, the, everything about it is interesting and beautiful. And we had the best time. We got on the bullet train. And every you, I bet you love it, Bateman, because it's very efficient. Everything about it, like the train leaves like, literally like to the second at the time that it says. It's like the opposite of Italy, even and I love Italy too. But it's like. We wait for the train. You, it is, you, and Otis is like that.

• 42:02Will Arnett?

  Train will leave eventually. Make a big deal.

• 42:05Jason Bateman?

  Have a nice coffee, one cigarette.

• 42:07Speaker 02

  It's predictable and I think kids really like that, too. They like the, the idea that like, it's gonna happen when they say it's gonna happen. And there's just so, they're just the coolest.

• 42:17Sean Hayes?

  I saw this thing about Japan where if a kid, I may have gotten this wrong. If a kid is wearing yellow, then that kid is by himself and everybody watches out for that kid. Come on.

• 42:27Speaker 02

  God.

• 42:28Sean Hayes?

  Like the kid isn't, um, doesn't have a.

• 42:31Jason Bateman?

  Unchaperoned, unsupervised.

• 42:32Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, unchaperoned, yeah.

• 42:33Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 42:34Jason Bateman?

  Or an orphan, perhaps. Maybe that's a, it's an orphan uniform.

• 42:38Sean Hayes?

  Right. Just walking around looking for a home.

• 42:40Jason Bateman?

  This one's free. Just grab this one if you want. No?

• 42:43Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 42:45Jason Bateman?

  Come on, Sean.

• 42:47Sean Hayes?

  Jesus. No, but I think, I think I saw that. I don't know if that's true, but yeah.

• 42:50Speaker 02

  I don't know about that one.

• 42:51Jason Bateman?

  Probably not.

• 42:52Will Arnett?

  Oh, Olivia, this is a segment we like to call, I think I saw that.

• 42:58Will Arnett?

  Where it's just, it's really a lot of conjecture and.

• 43:01Jason Bateman?

  It's next to the other, the other segment called.

• 43:03Speaker 02

  I saw that.

• 43:04Jason Bateman?

  Scrub my search history by Sean Hayes.

• 43:07Sean Hayes?

  Wait, we have to introduce that.

• 43:09Will Arnett?

  I may have dreamt this.

• 43:13Jason Bateman?

  All right, so here we go.

• 43:14Will Arnett?

  What was the thing? What was the job? What was the thing that turned it all? Because you're auditioning, you're doing stuff. What was the thing? What was the first boom?

• 43:22Speaker 02

  I guess probably the OC. The OC.

• 43:26Jason Bateman?

  Oh, that's right.

• 43:27Speaker 02

  I was a bisexual bartender, Alex Kelly. And it was a big show. Bigger than I knew it was when I agreed to do it. And it was wild.

• 43:38Jason Bateman?

  You know, it's being rewatched.

• 43:41Speaker 02

  Oh, I know. Because these young folks, now they come up to me. And I'm like, what do you mean? It's such a deep cut. But they will say like, I love you on the show. And I'm like, what show? And it's the OC. And I can't believe it. I mean, for them, it's like Nick at Night now, right? It's like old.

• 43:56Jason Bateman?

  I wonder why they landed on that as opposed to, let's say, 90210 or Melrose Place or...

• 44:02Speaker 02

  It's close enough. And also, they're obsessed with early aughts. Everything fashion now, too. So like, it is from that era that is now weirdly coming back. And so they're into that look and the music. It's relevant again.

• 44:17Will Arnett?

  Sean, you're about to be in style again.

• 44:19Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's coming.

• 44:20Jason Bateman?

  I've been waiting.

• 44:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, your like, low-rise jeans and your little crop tops.

• 44:26Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 44:27Speaker 02

  It's coming back.

• 44:28Jason Bateman?

  The thing in the mirror behind you coming up is closer than it looks.

• 44:31Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

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• 45:48Jason Bateman?

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• 45:54Sean Hayes?

  And back to the show.

• 45:57Jason Bateman?

  All right, and then there was, then there was Girl Next Door, there was Alpha Dog. And then we got to Cowboys and Aliens.

• 46:06Sean Hayes?

  I love that movie.

• 46:07Speaker 02

  Change Up. When are we getting to the Change Up?

• 46:10Jason Bateman?

  I mean, were there more people that saw Cowboys and Aliens or Change Up?

• 46:14Speaker 02

  Oh, that's hard. It might have been the same five people.

• 46:17Will Arnett?

  Let's talk about the Change Up.

• 46:19Speaker 02

  Let's talk about it.

• 46:20Jason Bateman?

  Favorite memory of the Change Up?

• 46:22Speaker 02

  My favorite memory is obviously sitting on your lap, topless.

• 46:27Jason Bateman?

  With pasties.

• 46:28Will Arnett?

  No, I mean from shooting, I mean from the movie.

• 46:30Speaker 02

  Oh, okay, that was also fun. That was a good time as well. We really had the best time. I loved making that movie.

• 46:40Jason Bateman?

  Right?

• 46:40Speaker 02

  It was a blast.

• 46:42Sean Hayes?

  Ryan's the coolest. David Dobkin was so frickin' awesome.

• 46:47Will Arnett?

  Dobkin.

• 46:48Speaker 02

  It was, it was so great.

• 46:50Sean Hayes?

  Down there in Atlanta.

• 46:51Jason Bateman?

  I loved it.

• 46:52Sean Hayes?

  Remember when I stopped by on the set?

• 46:54Will Arnett?

  Yeah, Sean, you were making Three Stooges at the same time, right?

• 46:56Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, and I walked to the mall to go see Green Lantern. And there's Jason and Ryan filming Change Up in the middle of the mall.

• 47:06Speaker 02

  Oh, wow.

• 47:07Sean Hayes?

  And I walked right into the middle of the scene. I was like, hey, guys.

• 47:09Speaker 02

  Oh, they should have kept that. Movie would have been better.

• 47:12Jason Bateman?

  With the curly wig on?

• 47:14Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, totally. At the fountain, I think it was the fountain, right in the middle of the mall.

• 47:17Speaker 02

  Oh, right, the fountain. You guys were so good. It was, you were so funny together.

• 47:23Will Arnett?

  You got a bogey over by the fountain.

• 47:26Sean Hayes?

  Totally. I was shuffled along very quickly.

• 47:30Jason Bateman?

  And then we do Drinking Buddies, Joe Swanberg. That was, that was completely improvised?

• 47:36Speaker 02

  Completely improvised, yeah. That's like the, the true Swanbergian way, which is kind of that mumblecore, which I think they hate that word.

• 47:45Jason Bateman?

  Mumblecore.

• 47:45Speaker 02

  Seems very, I don't know.

• 47:48Will Arnett?

  For me, it's just more than it is.

• 47:54Speaker 02

  It was, you get, there's no script. There's a sort of outline and then you just improvise.

• 48:01Jason Bateman?

  What is this for?

• 48:02Speaker 02

  Oh, this was a movie called Drinking Buddies.

• 48:04Jason Bateman?

  Oh, Drinking Buddies. Isn't that similar to what they do on Curb Your Enthusiasm? Shawnee, you've done that.

• 48:10Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get the outline and you go.

• 48:13Jason Bateman?

  So there's no, there's no written script?

• 48:15Sean Hayes?

  No, zero. You just gotta hit the beats and then you start improvise. It's super fun.

• 48:20Speaker 02

  It's so great. And it was the first time I kind of took myself seriously as potentially being able to write something or maybe direct something one day because we were really in control of the story and it was a collective effort and that

• 48:33Sean Hayes?

  And it makes it more real, too.

• 48:35Speaker 02

  workshop was so fun. It makes it very real. And, and it was, we kept learning from what happened and then letting that affect the next scene. So it was like, oh, now this would happen to these people. It was

• 48:44Jason Bateman?

  So you shot it in order?

• 48:46Speaker 02

  We shot it mostly in order and that led to then the movie that I just directed, this movie, The Invite, that I did completely in order. And it was all really started in Drinking Buddies days when I was like, this is so fun. And, and it was, it was a dream. I loved making that movie. In Chicago, drinking beer.

• 49:06Sean Hayes?

  I love that. So that was my next question is, so did Drinking Buddies inspire you to want to direct?

• 49:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 49:12Sean Hayes?

  Is that, is that their experience?

• 49:14Speaker 02

  I, I kind of, I wanted to before, but that was the first time that I was like, wait, I think I might know how to put a scene together because, because I was given the chance to sort of be a part of that process. And it was, I was like, this is the most fun.

• 49:27Sean Hayes?

  And now having done both, obviously scripted, and this version where it's improvised through an outline, do you prefer one or the other or?

• 49:36Speaker 02

  I think there's a, what I prefer is what I ended up getting to do on this movie, which was we workshopped the script together as cast and writers.

• 49:45Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 49:46Speaker 02

  And then we were able to shoot in order, shoot it, yeah, it was like a play. And it was a very well thought out script ultimately, but we had kind of worked it together. And in not in a full like Mike Lee way where we spent like a year improvising on a cliffside or something, it's not that. But it was very, it was very organic because we had come, we had really massaged it together. And, and then, once we got on set, we knew exactly what we were doing. I liked that.

• 50:14Jason Bateman?

  Well, so tell, tell the audience a little bit more about that one. This is called The Invite and it's, it's inspired by or based on?

• 50:20Speaker 02

  It's based on a Spanish film.

• 50:22Jason Bateman?

  Okay. So, yeah, so tell me, how did, how did it kind of get started? Who watched the film first? Who called, who called each, who called the other person and say, you know, let's, let's do it this way?

• 50:33Speaker 02

  Okay, so Rashida Jones and Will McCormick.

• 50:36Jason Bateman?

  Love.

• 50:37Speaker 02

  Wrote, we love.

• 50:38Jason Bateman?

  Love.

• 50:39Speaker 02

  Wrote the English language adaptation of a Spanish film that was called The People Upstairs. And it was a small Spanish film that was based on a play that you, you can sort of see the origins of it as a play because it's four people in one apartment. And that's the whole, the whole thing takes place with four people in one apartment over one night. And the idea is that it's a kind of a dinner party gone wrong. It's about a husband and wife, in our version, it's myself and Seth Rogen, who have been kind of plagued by the sounds of our neighbors upstairs having very loud sex. And it's been driving Seth's character kind of insane.

• 51:20Speaker 02

  And unbeknownst to him, I've invited these people over for dinner and he's furious because he doesn't want to have dinner with anyone. He's tired from work, but he says, fine, if they're, if you've ambushed me with this, I'm gonna bring up the noise from upstairs. And I'm like, over my dead body, you'll bring up that noise? You will not, please just try to be normal and have a normal night so we can have friends. And so the whole night, he's kind of threatening to bring up this thing. And they are endlessly kind of sexy and enigmatic and they end up really blowing our minds and changing our marriage in one night.

• 51:53Jason Bateman?

  And the other couple is?

• 51:54Speaker 02

  Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton.

• 51:57Will Arnett?

  What a cast.

• 51:58Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 51:58Speaker 02

  I mean, insane.

• 52:00Will Arnett?

  Unbelievable cast. It's insane.

• 52:01Speaker 02

  And so Rashida and Will wrote the English version and I got that script and I was like, this is hilarious. And it was clearly an opportunity to make something in this way that I had been obsessing over since Drinking Buddies. So I was like, okay, we can shoot this in order and we can really personalize this script together and workshop it and make it really specific to these actors. And we can shoot it on 35 millimeter and we can make it really fun. And I was, I'm obsessed with Mike Nichols. So I was like, this could be our Virginia Woolf. And it was the best experience of my life. Sorry, Jason. And Will, I love working with you guys. This one was great.

• 52:41Will Arnett?

  Well, yeah.

• 52:41Jason Bateman?

  But then, so you take this great script from Rashida and Will, but then the four of you get together, the cast, and do you guys start to take and even plus the script because of the specificity of each actor?

• 52:56Speaker 02

  Yes. And we really, the six of us sat for two weeks. This was the thing. I was like, can we stop giving away rehearsal time immediately when we make movies? Like, it's the first thing we give up.

• 53:09Will Arnett?

  We were just talking about this recently.

• 53:10Speaker 02

  Impossible to convince people, really agents, agents are the ones who are like, no, he's not available until the minute you start rolling the camera. And it's like, why? Why can't we consider it part of the job? Can you imagine doing that for theater? If it was like, no, I'll be there for previews.

• 53:26Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. Then what they do is then they prorate their, then they prorate their salary. They say, well, so an extra two weeks of work at this number.

• 53:32Will Arnett?

  Jason's also an agent. I don't know if you knew that.

• 53:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, be my agent, please. But it really was so fun because, because the six of us sat at this table and we tore through the script and Rashida and Will were so game to kind of let it evolve to what these actors were thinking. And it was so fun. And it was like, imagine, I mean, Seth and Edward and Penelope are all real filmmakers on their own. I mean, they're directors, they're writers. And so the opportunity to kind of get all of their good ideas and put them in there. And Edward Edward is on another, first of all, Edward's maybe one of my favorite smartless guests. He's maybe that episode is really, really great. Well, he's so smart. He's so funny. Yeah, and he's so funny.

• 54:20Speaker 02

  And people don't even, people do know it, and but I am obsessed with him. And he ended up improvising like an entire monologue in the third act of this movie. That is so beautiful and it really just, it was his gift to us to just kind of like, he said to me, I'm gonna, I have a story I want to tell on the scene. I kind of don't want to tell you what it is. And I was like, okay, yeah. How long, like roughly? Just because we're like rolling film and I was paying for the film and I was like, well, just like how, how? Was it longer than a full mag? I put a thousand foot mag on the camera and I was like, go! And he used it. And it was really great.

• 55:02Speaker 02

  And but it was, Penelope Cruz came up with the funniest set piece in the movie. And, and it was all with the, you know, workshopping with Rashida and Will who would, man, just like run with the punches of, of, of roll or run? Do you roll or you roll with them? You roll with a bunch, yeah. They rolled and ran.

• 55:21Jason Bateman?

  They ran with the ball.

• 55:22Speaker 02

  They ran with the ball. It was, it was the best. And, and, and then I wasn't supposed to be in the movie, but the actors bullied me into playing that part, which was very, which was very sweet of them.

• 55:32Jason Bateman?

  Well, now, how do you find that? Do you find it, do you find it efficient to direct yourself? Or do you find it distracting?

• 55:38Speaker 02

  I think in this case it was efficient because it was so intimate. It was almost like having one less body on set was actually really helpful. And I think that it allowed me to see things they were all doing. These, these geniuses were doing so many little things that I could see things the camera couldn't see. And so I'd be like, oh, okay, now we need to come around because Seth is doing something that I actually need us to get. And so in that way, it was good. I, I feel like it could be very difficult in a different situation. I also was playing someone who was like riddled with anxiety and which helped because.

• 56:12Speaker 02

  I could just kind of be me.

• 56:13Jason Bateman?

  Were they comfortable with you directing them inside a take? Or did you have to wait until you yelled cut before you gave them notes?

• 56:19Speaker 02

  I wasn't, I didn't do a like, okay, give me a little more, give me like in this, still rolling. I want more, go deeper. I didn't do that at all.

• 56:28Jason Bateman?

  In character, directing them in character?

• 56:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, no. I, I really believe in letting people kind of play and try things. And then knowing that what I really can do as a director is later on prune and, and adjust things in the edit. So I just think it was like encouraging them to keep experimenting and, and some with Seth, I would have to tell him he could be meaner to me. Because our characters, it's a very contentious relationship and there's a lot of arguing and he's a very non-confrontational person. So the most direction I gave Seth was like, you can fucking scream at me, like I can take it. And, and angry Seth is, it's a thing to behold. Cause it's, he's got it in him, it turns out.

• 57:10Jason Bateman?

  How many day, how many days was it then? It must have been.

• 57:12Speaker 02

  Twenty-three.

• 57:13Jason Bateman?

  Amazing.

• 57:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, so fast. And like just the best, I mean, we were, we were on this little soundstage Sunset Las Palmas. It's the pink one. If you remember the opening of The Player, when he drives in, it's that. And, and it's iconic, it's great and tiny. And we were all, we built the set on stage and we just, you know, banged it out. And then, and then a year later went to Sundance, it was so fast.

• 57:39Jason Bateman?

  Did we get in the weeds for one second? Did you, did you have multiple cameras?

• 57:43Speaker 02

  Oh. We had one camera, no, and then, and then towards the, the last week, we brought in a second camera. Cause we wanted to just be able to, there were, there were some scenes that it would, they benefited from two cameras, but I didn't want to. I felt like I had been inspired by like Tarantino saying like, don't be a hack. Have one camera, pick your perspective. Anytime you have two cameras, one shot is suffering. And I was like, oh, that's cool.

• 58:09Jason Bateman?

  Well, but you've got these four people talking all the time. And so you've got to do it four times at least. So that everyone gets a camera pointed at them.

• 58:19Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 58:19Jason Bateman?

  You know, and then.

• 58:20Speaker 02

  We did a lot of like. Shared frame, that's why it is very theatrical in that way that like, there's a lot of times we're sharing the frame, which is why we had the best focus puller in the world who could somehow predict when someone was gonna improvise a joke.

• 58:32Will Arnett?

  And it's also better, I think, for comedy because there's nothing worse than cutting back between, you know, from singles in comedy. I love seeing people inhabiting the same frame in a comedy.

• 58:41Speaker 02

  Oh, it's so thrilling because they really did that.

• 58:43Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so much better. So if you take a left on Las Palmas, like, how, like, street parking, obviously, again, Jason, I know they won.

• 58:51Jason Bateman?

  Where'd the trucks go?

• 58:54Sean Hayes?

  Also, editing, editing comedy too, I just find, we, I always think, you know, I gave you, or whoever it is, they gave you the comedy timing while you were filming it, and then the editor cuts, plays with it. It's like, no, we gave you the timing when we were filming it. That's what it is.

• 59:11Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 59:12Jason Bateman?

  It's a tough thing to maintain, yeah.

• 59:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, god, it was so fun.

• 59:15Jason Bateman?

  It's why oners are so good, because they're just fully intact. But you had, you had so much technique and know-how and execution right out of the gate with Booksmart was like, just like a stunning accomplishment of-

• 59:29Will Arnett?

  That must have felt so good. The movie's so good.

• 59:32Sean Hayes?

  That was your first movie you directed?

• 59:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 59:34Will Arnett?

  It's insane. It's insane.

• 59:36Speaker 02

  I, I think that it, it really was because my proxy film school, because I didn't go to college, didn't go to film school, and I was always insecure about that lack of education. And I think that being on so many sets as an actor, I just paid attention to everything. And I, I just tried to absorb it. But yeah, I, I think Booksmart, I think often your first movie is the one you've been building up for your entire life, and you put all of your ideas into it, and, and you have so much to give, and, and you're lucky if it, if, if it resonates with people. And I got so lucky because it happened to hit, you know, a, a place and a lot of people's kind of shared

• 1:00:20Speaker 02

  trauma of adolescence. Like, you, that's the thing I love about high school movies.

• 1:00:24Jason Bateman?

  But even, but, but just the, but just the making of it, Olivia, like, you know, and the stuff that, that you wouldn't have been around to- And and to sort of cherry pick from these great directors, all this post incredibleness in that film. The the editing style, the choi- the choice and the use of music and stuff like, that's all shit that you

• 1:00:43Speaker 02

  I love that stuff.

• 1:00:43Jason Bateman?

  People usually need like a handful of movies under their belt before they really kind of figure. I don't know. I just was so impressed.

• 1:00:50Will Arnett?

  Again, the science of it is you're born with it. You're born with it.

• 1:00:53Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, we're gonna cut you open and take a look.

• 1:00:55Will Arnett?

  You're born with it.

• 1:00:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, get in there. I I love it. It's I'm a much better director than actor, but I love acting too. But directing, I guys, tell me, am I wrong?

• 1:01:06Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you're right.

• 1:01:08Speaker 02

  No, I just love it.

• 1:01:09Will Arnett?

  You paused after you said that, just to leave room.

• 1:01:12Jason Bateman?

  So Olivia, what what what's going on when you're not working? Pickleball or what?

• 1:01:17Speaker 02

  Oh, no, I was, should I learn it? Fuck.

• 1:01:19Jason Bateman?

  No.

• 1:01:20Speaker 02

  I was in Central Park the other day and they were playing it and someone was playing like Jimi Hendrix on the stereo and like everybody was playing pickleball and I was like, what a beautiful hobby that I don't do, but I like to watch.

• 1:01:32Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:32Speaker 02

  Um, I don't know.

• 1:01:34Jason Bateman?

  What is the hobby someone would be surprised to learn that you've got? It's just us. No one's listening. It's just us.

• 1:01:41Speaker 02

  Between us gals.

• 1:01:42Will Arnett?

  Yeah, or the pastime or like the guilty TV or the thing. Do you have a thing that you do? You're like, oh my God, I can't believe I'm wasting my time during this.

• 1:01:48Speaker 02

  I don't really, I don't, I I mean hobbies, yeah. I mean, I feel like I'm I really recently, it's like I'm working or I'm mothering.

• 1:01:55Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. What's the dumbest thing that you do? Because like the, you know, the directing is like, you this, you can't stop thinking because you there's never, you've never have it all figured out. So like, what do you do that that requires zero thinking? Do you ever just stare at the television and let it just talk to you? Yeah. Yeah.

• 1:02:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, I love.

• 1:02:15Jason Bateman?

  Will you get wrapped up in crap? Yeah.

• 1:02:17Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:02:18Jason Bateman?

  I just watched Love is Blind.

• 1:02:20Speaker 02

  Oh, God, it's great.

• 1:02:21Jason Bateman?

  So good. I did four hours of Below Deck yesterday. You did? I did four full hours of Below Deck yesterday.

• 1:02:27Will Arnett?

  I did ninety Day Fiance before the ninety days.

• 1:02:33Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 1:02:35Jason Bateman?

  Olivia, what, any reality at all?

• 1:02:37Speaker 02

  I mean, I love Love on the Spectrum. That is, that makes me cry and I love it so much.

• 1:02:43Jason Bateman?

  Incredible.

• 1:02:44Speaker 02

  And, um, no, I mean, I love a housewife. But I, I think that for me, it's like.

• 1:02:50Jason Bateman?

  Oh, any city on Housewives, right?

• 1:02:52Speaker 02

  I mean, I like Beverly Hills, but I, I think that any city will do it for me. Yeah. But I think that, like, I just watched all of Love Story and I got really into it. It's not, that's the Ryan Murphy, that's the Carolyn Bissette.

• 1:03:06Jason Bateman?

  Right, right, right, right.

• 1:03:07Speaker 02

  Got really into that. And it's not quite reality TV, but you still feel like a little, there's something, a little guilty pleasure about it.

• 1:03:15Will Arnett?

  I haven't watched that, but the only bummer about that love story to me is that it's made.

• 1:03:19Speaker 02

  They die in the end?

• 1:03:20Will Arnett?

  No, it's made, it's made Odeon really busy again in Tribeca, so like.

• 1:03:24Speaker 02

  Oh my God, that's, yeah.

• 1:03:27Will Arnett?

  I'm like, oh, all these people are coming, what the fuck is going on?

• 1:03:29Speaker 02

  Oh, get out of here.

• 1:03:30Jason Bateman?

  What's Odeon? Oh, that's the restaurant we ate at.

• 1:03:31Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:03:32Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:03:33Jason Bateman?

  It's the best. Before we let you go, because we're coming up on the end here.

• 1:03:35Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:03:36Jason Bateman?

  It's been so fast.

• 1:03:36Will Arnett?

  This is crazy, holy shit.

• 1:03:38Jason Bateman?

  I know, I know, I know. Talk to us about, um, a new, another new thing coming up called I Want Your Sex.

• 1:03:44Speaker 02

  I do, I want your sex.

• 1:03:46Jason Bateman?

  Right?

• 1:03:46Speaker 02

  It is.

• 1:03:47Will Arnett?

  You got a clip?

• 1:03:48Speaker 02

  That is, I want it. That is Greg Araki, who is a, a real, like, very cool filmmaker, who is a real LA filmmaker. He is, um, or an auteur and wild. I mean, very, very much an individual. And I play a dominatrix and, um, of course, and I.

• 1:04:14Jason Bateman?

  And you're, who are you dominating? You're dominating the sweet little Cooper Hoffman.

• 1:04:17Speaker 02

  Cooper Hoffman.

• 1:04:18Jason Bateman?

  You know, he doesn't deserve to get whipped.

• 1:04:20Speaker 02

  He loved it.

• 1:04:21Jason Bateman?

  He's the best.

• 1:04:22Speaker 02

  And it is a very, very campy, fun movie. And it was really cool because when we were at Sundance with The Invite, I Want Your Sex premiered on Friday and The Invite was Saturday. And I just felt so lucky to be able to.

• 1:04:38Jason Bateman?

  That's amazing.

• 1:04:39Speaker 02

  Like, be a part of this fun business where we get to tell all these crazy stories. And, and they both got bought magically and so, and they're coming out

• 1:04:49Jason Bateman?

  My god.

• 1:04:49Speaker 02

  Right after each other and

• 1:04:51Will Arnett?

  No way.

• 1:04:51Speaker 02

  It's so fun. Yeah, it's like invite.

• 1:04:53Jason Bateman?

  So yeah, so I Want Your Sex comes out July 23rd, uh, which is in about 10 days from this air date here.

• 1:05:01Speaker 02

  And the invite is out now.

• 1:05:03Jason Bateman?

  Invites already out. Yeah, it came out June 26th, so.

• 1:05:06Speaker 02

  June 26th, New York.

• 1:05:06Sean Hayes?

  That's my birthday.

• 1:05:07Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 1:05:08Sean Hayes?

  You're not on my birthday, guys.

• 1:05:09Speaker 02

  Now you have plans.

• 1:05:10Sean Hayes?

  That, no, we have plans.

• 1:05:11Speaker 02

  I mean, you did plan plans.

• 1:05:12Sean Hayes?

  We saw it, yeah, on my birthday.

• 1:05:14Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you saw it.

• 1:05:15Speaker 02

  And you had the best time and everyone laughed so hard.

• 1:05:18Sean Hayes?

  Yes, I loved it.

• 1:05:19Speaker 02

  Oh, I'm glad you loved it. Your favorite film, come on.

• 1:05:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:23Speaker 02

  Of all time?

• 1:05:24Will Arnett?

  You liked, you liked the beginning and you loved the middle, but you really, it was the end that got you.

• 1:05:28Speaker 02

  The ending.

• 1:05:28Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, really.

• 1:05:29Speaker 02

  She shed a tear.

• 1:05:30Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:30Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 1:05:31Sean Hayes?

  I walked out not dry.

• 1:05:32Jason Bateman?

  And then we're gonna all look forward to the, to the behemoth with sweet, sweet Willie Arnett coming out sometime next year, right?

• 1:05:40Speaker 02

  At some point.

• 1:05:41Jason Bateman?

  Meanwhile, you're probably hard at work, um, getting ready to direct your next incredible movie. We're all waiting for it. Keep jamming.

• 1:05:49Speaker 02

  Please be in it. Everyone.

• 1:05:50Will Arnett?

  Can you, can you just give us a hint of what you're working on or area or no?

• 1:05:54Speaker 02

  It's a comedy.

• 1:05:55Will Arnett?

  Oh.

• 1:05:56Speaker 02

  It's a, it's a Christmas comedy.

• 1:05:58Sean Hayes?

  Oh, I'm in, I'm already in.

• 1:05:59Will Arnett?

  I love a Christmas comedy.

• 1:06:01Jason Bateman?

  You should see Sean play an elf. He did it with Kenny Rogers.

• 1:06:03Will Arnett?

  He was on the road with Kenny Rogers.

• 1:06:05Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:05Speaker 02

  Please come be an elf.

• 1:06:06Sean Hayes?

  I'll send my self tape over with real good lighting.

• 1:06:08Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:06:09Sean Hayes?

  I'll actually put myself in a winter wonderland, just so you really get it.

• 1:06:12Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, yeah, please.

• 1:06:12Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:13Speaker 02

  Great.

• 1:06:13Will Arnett?

  What was your line? Santa, I don't know when to hold him or when to fold him.

• 1:06:16Sean Hayes?

  Fold him.

• 1:06:19Will Arnett?

  What was your line?

• 1:06:20Sean Hayes?

  That's what it was. That's what it was.

• 1:06:22Jason Bateman?

  Um, we love you, Olivia.

• 1:06:24Speaker 02

  I love you guys. Thank you for having me. What a dream.

• 1:06:28Sean Hayes?

  And congrats on everything.

• 1:06:29Will Arnett?

  Yeah, super, super congrats.

• 1:06:30Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 1:06:31Jason Bateman?

  Keep going, girl.

• 1:06:33Speaker 02

  Thanks.

• 1:06:33Sean Hayes?

  Bye.

• 1:06:34Jason Bateman?

  Talk to you soon. See you soon.

• 1:06:35Speaker 02

  See ya.

• 1:06:36Jason Bateman?

  Bye, bye.

• 1:06:37Speaker 02

  Bye.

• 1:06:41Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 1:06:42Jason Bateman?

  That's the incredibly charming Olivia Wilde.

• 1:06:45Will Arnett?

  Love her.

• 1:06:45Jason Bateman?

  With the talent to match.

• 1:06:47Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:48Sean Hayes?

  You can tell she's funny, you know?

• 1:06:50Will Arnett?

  She's super funny, super funny, so smart, so, so smart. And, and so cool.

• 1:06:56Jason Bateman?

  I'm just so excited that she's directing and that, and that it's, it's like, she could like, just do it forever, you know, like, she's incredible at it.

• 1:07:05Will Arnett?

  She's got every gear. She's got every gear. Writer, director, actor.

• 1:07:09Sean Hayes?

  And they're all working. They're all working, yeah.

• 1:07:11Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 1:07:12Sean Hayes?

  All the, all the gear.

• 1:07:12Will Arnett?

  I'd love to have a A gear, would be nice. A gear. She's got them all, you know?

• 1:07:18Jason Bateman?

  Man, what are you doing, what are you, what are you doing with your life, Will?

• 1:07:21Will Arnett?

  I don't know. I'll tell you what I am doing on October 17th.

• 1:07:24Jason Bateman?

  What do you, what's that, huh?

• 1:07:25Will Arnett?

  Well, if you go to smartless.com/live, you'll find out what I'm doing. And it has to do with the Hollywood Bowl. I'll just say that. I'll just say that.

• 1:07:30Sean Hayes?

  Hollywood Bowl, what's happening at the Hollywood Bowl?

• 1:07:32Will Arnett?

  I'll say that. Smartless.com/live has to do with the Hollywood Bowl.

• 1:07:37Jason Bateman?

  What do you mean?

• 1:07:38Will Arnett?

  And you know what? I'm gonna invite you guys.

• 1:07:41Jason Bateman?

  What?

• 1:07:42Will Arnett?

  To join me.

• 1:07:44Jason Bateman?

  I'm available.

• 1:07:45Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:07:46Jason Bateman?

  What are we gonna be doing?

• 1:07:47Will Arnett?

  We're gonna do a live Smartless show at the Hollywood Bowl. Smartless.com/live on October 17th.

• 1:07:54Sean Hayes?

  Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

• 1:07:55Will Arnett?

  It's gonna be, so it's gonna be on the...

• 1:07:57Jason Bateman?

  Flap, flap, flap.

• 1:08:00Will Arnett?

  Hollywood Bowl.

• 1:08:03Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow. What we're gonna do is we're gonna, you know, the New York's got the...

• 1:08:09Will Arnett?

  Okay, here we go.

• 1:08:12Sean Hayes?

  Finally, Jason's got one.

• 1:08:14Jason Bateman?

  New York's got the apple, LA's got the orange. And so what we're gonna do is since, you know, the Hollywood Bowl is such a big part of LA, we're gonna go ahead and take a, out of the orange, we're gonna take a big bite.

• 1:08:27Will Arnett?

  Bite!

• 1:08:30Sean Hayes?

  That was the worst ever.

• 1:08:34Speaker 07

  Smart. Less.

• 1:08:40Speaker 07

  Smart. Less.

• 1:08:46Will Arnett?

  Smartless is 100% organic and artisanally handcrafted by Bennett Barbaco, Michael Grant Terry, and Rob Armjarf.

• 1:08:58Speaker 07

  Smart. Less.