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We've known Jason Bateman since the early '80s. Now we see him on the small and big screen and hear him every week on his podcast, Smartless. Still, how well do you really know this guy? We demystify Bateman in our latest cover story, which is told in his own words in the style of our What I've Learned interview series. You will come away knowing a lot more about the guy. Check it out below. Bateman is the first of two covers we'll be rolling out this week, along with several more What I've Learned interviews with various luminaries and people who've led fascinating lives. Stay tuned. —Michael Sebastian, editor-in-chief Plus: |
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At 56, the former child star has achieved success as an actor, director, and podcaster. He makes it look easy—even when it's not. So what's the secret? He explains it all, in his own words. |
Jason Bateman has been famous for nearly 50 years and has transformed himself from a child star into a Golden Globe–winning actor, an Emmy-winning director, and one third of the incredibly popular podcast Smartless. (His latest projects, Black Rabbit and Zootopia 2, are out now.) With his wife of 24 years, Bateman has two daughters, one of whom just went off to college. How did he reach this point in his life and career, and what hard-earned lessons has he learned along the way? Here, in owns words, he explains it all. This interview took place on October 7 in Los Angeles, where Bateman lives. "Starting at the age of ten, I was teaching myself how to be a professional liar. How to convince people that I was something other than what I was thinking inside." "I married a friend as opposed to a girlfriend. Since I only wanted to get married once, I thought, Find someone I'm sexually attracted to that's also a friend. That's the bull's-eye." "I am a people pleaser. I care about what people think about me. I read all the reviews. I am doing these projects for public consumption, so it matters to me what the public thinks about them. It matters to me what critics think about them. But what's most important is that the weather inside is 72 and breezy. It takes a lot of work to stay happy, to stay clear, and to be proud of yourself. You can try to drink through it, but you're sober in the morning and you got to live in those hours too." |
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Josh Hutcherson had a hell of a weekend. The 33-year-old actor stars in Five Night at Freddy's 2—the much-anticipated sequel to Blumhouse's 2023 horror hit—which debuted this weekend to the tune of $109 million worldwide. Over in Sunday night's episode of the HBO comedy series I Love LA, Hutcherson's character, Dylan, finally stood up to his girlfriend Maia, played by series creator Rachel Sennott. It's a shame that it took a catastrophic game night in front of Dylan's coworkers for him to get there. Baby steps! Call it a microcosm of Hutcherson's staying power in Hollywood. A two-decade-long career in film and TV isn't easy to keep up for anyone, let alone for a Kentucky kid who had little connection to Tinseltown to start with. The actor has a budding franchise on his hands with Five Nights at Freddy's, where he plays the tortured security guard of a haunted restaurant. But it's I Love LA that takes the actor back to familiar territory, which he traversed in many a Hunger Games film: Dream boyfriend. |
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The first time that the malevolent shapeshifter appears in Stephen King's 1986 novel It, the creature introduces itself not only as its infamous clown form, but also with a name that seems oddly … ordinary: Bob Gray. That name now takes on greater—and more tragic—meaning as a result of Sunday's episode of the HBO series It: Welcome To Derry. Andy Muschietti, the director of 2017's It and 2019's It: Chapter Two, and the guiding creative force behind the series, delved into the revelations of episode 7, titled "The Black Spot," to explain exactly how they filled in the blanks on this peculiar nom de bizarre. But before getting to the answers (and the spoilers,) let's start with the mystery itself. Who exactly is Bob Gray—and why does the creature occasionally call itself that? |
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