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Jason Bateman "Thought Seriously" About Hosting a Talk Show Last Year

by | March 21st, 2013

GQ has a long interview with Jason Bateman out today, in which he discusses Arrested Development and other stuff that's not Arrested Development, like whether he'd ever like to host a talk show. Here was Bateman's response:

"That's interesting, I was just talking about that. Without getting too specific about it, because I can't, I've thought seriously about it as recently as last year. Having just come back from doing a week of talk shows last week [to promote Identity Thief], I was talking to [my wife] Amanda about, in twenty years—when the girls go to college and we can finally move to New York, which is what [...]

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Nick Offerman, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus Laura Dern, and Ed Helms

by | June 12th, 2012

"I think when any show is created you start with, 'This person will be the protagonist; this person will throw rocks at the protagonist.' And eventually, as you flesh the characters out, you find out that the person throwing the rocks is also a person and has feelings. And I think we found that it was really enjoyable to, you know, to pit Ron's sort of working philosophy, his hatred of government, against his strong personal loyalty to his friends. They get a lot of mileage out of that he wants to shut down the program, but he wants to support the people that are creating the program because he [...]

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