{"id":1867,"date":"2026-06-15T21:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:39:14","slug":"awards-chatter-pod-jason-bateman-on-ozark-and-smartless-lessons-pushing-himself-in-new-directions-with-black-rabbit-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Awards Chatter\u2019 Pod: Jason Bateman on \u2018Ozark\u2019 and \u2018SmartLess\u2019 Lessons, Pushing Himself in New Directions With \u2018Black Rabbit\u2019 and \u2018DTF St. Louis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nJason Bateman, our guest on this episode of <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u2019s <em>Awards Chatter<\/em> podcast \u2014 which was recorded in front of students enrolled in a Chapman University journalism class called \u201cThe Art of the Interview\u201d \u2014\u00a0is an actor, director and producer who has been in the business for 45 years and has never been more respected or successful than he is <em>today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1865\">Saul Rubinek Joins Theo James in Gangster Thriller \u2018The Bookie &amp; The Bruiser\u2019 (Exclusive)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"pmc-protected-embed\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" id=\"pmc-protected-embed-2\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=PMC9079745664\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBateman started out as a child actor \u2014 and became something of a teen idol \u2014\u00a0in the 1980s on the TV shows <em>Little House on the Prairie<\/em>, <em>Silver Spoons<\/em> and <em>Valerie<\/em>, later renamed <em>The Hogan Family<\/em>. In the 1990s, though, work dried up for him, he developed substance abuse issues, and he largely disappeared from the Hollywood scene. But in the 2000s, against all odds, he returned with a vengeance on the landmark single-camera comedy series <em>Arrested Development<\/em>, reinventing himself as the consummate straight man not only for that Emmy-winning show, but for a wide range of other projects on screens big and small.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t take anything away from actors that like <em>acting<\/em>,\u201d Bateman said when he first was a guest on <em>Awards Chatter<\/em> back in 2018, \u201cbut I am really attracted to something different.\u201d At that time, he was just embarking on the next major chapter of his career, as not only the star but also a director and executive producer of <em>Ozark<\/em>, a drama series about a Chicago family man who becomes indebted to a Mexican drug lord for whom he agreed to launder money. It was there that we picked up the conversation for this episode.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1863\">Henry Winkler \u201cHonored\u201d Michelle Obama Had a Crush on the Fonz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs you can hear via the audio player above or via any major podcast app, the 57-year-old reflected on why the opportunity to direct on <em>Ozark<\/em> was a prerequisite for him agreeing to act on it (he won an Emmy for his direction of an episode of the show\u2019s second season); why he and friends Will Arnett and Sean Hayes decided to launch the podcast <em>SmartLess<\/em>, and to what he attributes its massive popularity and financial success (it has generated nine figures of revenue); and what led him to step outside of his aforementioned acting comfort zone in two limited series that dropped over the past year, Netflix\u2019s <em>Black Rabbit<\/em>, on which he played the black sheep of two brothers who started a restaurant together, and HBO Max\u2019s <em>DTF St. Louis<\/em>, on which he played a meteorologist for a local TV news station who bonds with a colleague who is equally frustrated in his life (Bateman also served as an executive producer of both shows and directed two episodes of the former).<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe episode closes with questions from students.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd so, with great thanks to Jason Bateman for doing this, and without further ado, let\u2019s go to that conversation!<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1861\">What Can the Traditional Awards Shows Learn From Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers\u2019 Las Culturistas Culture Awards? \u201cBe Funny Again\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in THR Awards Chatter podcast, Jason Bateman talks Ozark and SmartLess Lessons, pushing himself in new directions with Black Rabbit and DTF St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1571,927,1572,525,1023,782,1573],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-arrested-development","tag-awards-chatter-podcast","tag-black-rabbit","tag-chapman-university","tag-dtf-st-louis","tag-jason-bateman","tag-smartless"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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