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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Jason Bateman

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

News, Celebrity, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Movies, Technology, Tv, Interview, Broadway, Music, Politics, Tv & Film

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jason Bateman is living a double life these days, playing the leader of the Bluth family in the comedy cult classic “Arrested Development” while also starring in the dark series “Ozark,” where he plays a family man who is in deep trouble with a drug cartel. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist chats with the actor about his lengthy career, from growing up a child star on the sitcom “Silver Spoons,” to facing some dark times in his twenties, to landing “Arrested Development” and his recent success on Netflix.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here.

0:02.6

Thanks for clicking on.

0:03.5

Thank you for downloading.

0:04.3

Thanks for checking out.

0:05.6

The latest episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:09.2

It's the podcast where every week you do the full

0:11.5

uncut version of our Sunday Today interviews on NBC.

0:15.4

Seven or eight minutes is what you're getting on TV.

0:17.4

That's a lot in TV time, but not enough for us.

0:20.1

So we set up a podcast and you've been generous

0:22.4

and kind enough to listen to these

0:24.1

and spend 30 minutes, 40 minutes an hour

0:26.8

depending on how much time we got with the person.

0:29.0

And this week, my guest is the hilarious Jason Bateman.

0:32.9

Guys, been around show business a long time.

0:36.0

I think he first entered my conscience.

0:37.9

I kind of missed little house on the prairie

0:40.4

where he played when he was 12 years old.

0:43.2

He rolled into my life when he played

0:45.0

bad boy Derek Taylor, Ricky Schroeder's friend

0:48.0

on the show Silver Spoons, which if you grew up in the 80s

0:51.2

and you were a kid, that was kind of one of the jams, wasn't it?

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