Since getting his start as a child star, Bateman has been a near-constant onscreen presence in film and TV. Adept in both comedy and drama—moving between “Zootopia” and “Arrested Development” to “Ozark” and “Black Rabbit”—he’s also won honors as both an actor and a director.
As one third of the SmartLess podcast, alongside Sean Hayes and Will Arnett, he’s interviewed everyone from Neil deGrasse Tyson to Paul Thomas Anderson to Jon Bon Jovi—and, once, Presidents Biden, Obama, and Clinton, all at the same time. …
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