Hi Jason.
Hi, look at all these nice people.
Look at them.
They're here.
They have waited months--
some, years-- to come here.
Right?
This is--
For you.
They've all waited--
Very hot ticket and deservedly so.
They waited to see when Jason Bateman was
going to be on the program.
Did a sign go on?
No.
Was there a sign out there that said, "Please applause
quickly for that."
No, they just realized they should.
They were like, oh, I think she wants us to applaud that.
So you did two movies, two Netflix series.
You're working constantly.
When are you going to take a little break?
Now.
OK.
All right, that's why you're here?
Yeah.
After this, there's a week of fun stuff like this,
and then I'm going to, I think, do nothing
until like March of next year.
Good.
I'm going to reintroduce myself to my children.
The sun does not stop coming up and down every day,
and they keep getting older every day.
I've got two girls--
11 and 6.
They're-- it's so special, both of them.
They're pretty great.
Really--
Thank you.
--they're fantastic
You're really cute with them.
And so I miss a lot when I'm away.
This is high class problems.
I'm very fortunate to have work.
But Ozark looks like, God willing,
it'll be going for a little bit.
So that'll be six months of every year.
Are you done with the season of Ozark now?
Yeah, just finished three days ago.
So now I can just kind of do nothing for a while.
Did you direct these as well?
I did the first two of this season,
and didn't do any of the others so
that I could come back and see them a little bit more.
I can get like a Monday off or a Friday off.
Ozark is so good and you're so good in it.
Thank you, thank you.
It's great.
But you're not here to talk about Ozark.
Let's talk about--
No, screw that show.
Yeah, let's talk about Arrested Development.
What is the best thing about besides--
I mean, Portia was not going to go back, as you know.
She said no over and over again.
Yeah and had a great reason for it.
It was like, I loved being an actor.
I'm kind of over it, and over it in the sense
that I really love doing what I'm doing now,
which is her art business.
And I just think it's just an incredible idea.
And Mitch-- the guy who is the father of Arrested
Development-- said, "Yeah, but we're
going to do another season."
And she's like, "Yeah, no, I'm good."
He was like, "Well, but, but, but, just a little bit."
And she's like, "Well, I don't think"--
anyway, so this went back and forth for a while.
And finally, thank god, she decided
to come out of retirement just for a little bit
so that she could be in the season.
But I have to think--
I have to hope-- that the draw out of retirement was fueled
by sort of this undeniable, familial--
it's so warm and cozy there.
Like we all love each other so--
I mean, you hear it all the time.
A series is like a family, but it's true.
All these people you work with, you
see them more than you see Portia.
Yeah.
I mean, this is your family, working
with actors on shows and crew members on shows.
You really create this great bond,
and we certainly have one on that show.
And I really think this season is going to be the best.
I agree with you.
It felt like it was incredible--
It's hilarious.
--in doing it.
It's really--
You've seen some.
I've not seen any.
I'm seeing tonight the first three.
Yeah, the premiere is tonight.
It's really funny.
But you should explain what happens this season.
You kind of did--
I have no idea.
OK.
But almost in truth, the way that we
have to try to get everybody to work
on the show over the course of six months,
given all the other stuff that we're doing,
we kind of come in like we have to do all of my scenes
before, really, the whole shooting is done.
So Mitch was writing scenes from episodes,
that he hasn't even written yet, for my character,
because I had to go away and start Ozark again.
So he has to fill you in a lot and it's-- so I'll figure it
all out tonight.
But that's the good news is that every single person that
came out of Arrested Development has a career
and everybody is busy working.
So to try to put everybody together-- it's a great cast,
and it's hilarious.
Yeah, well, we have Mitch to thank
for that and the nice folks at Netflix
for resurrecting the show and letting us all
come back together.
It shoots here in LA, which is so rare.
You don't leave-- and see, I don't like to leave the house.
You don't like to leave the house.
We are both very boring people when we're not working.
I got home yesterday at 2:30, because things were done for me
and there was nothing else left in the day.
And so then let's just put on the PJs and the slippies,
because, I mean, why not.
I mean, they're more comfortable.
I agree with you.
And I'm not leaving.
Yeah.
It's embarrassing when people come
to the door with deliveries or the mailman or something
like that, and they think I've just kind of hit eff it.
Life's over for me.
Let's just--
I am exactly the same.
We could live together, because--
Yeah, let's do it.
--I'm exactly the same.
I do like your house.
This sounds great.
All right.
Let's go deeper on that.
OK.
Give us one second.
All right, you are fantastic.
And I know that you have your premiere tonight
and need to get in your jammies, so I'm going to let you go.
And--
Wait.
We've got to-- no.
We have more to talk to him?
We're going to play a game.
I can't let you go yet.
Do not leave.
Cancel the premiere?
Yes cancel the premiere.
Cancel the premiere.
I have more to talk to you about.
Oh, we're going to play a game.
Wait, am I getting wet and gooey in this game?
No, no, no.
Because I got a premiere I got to go to.
The only way we do that is if we're
going to give you $10,000.
I'm in.
OK.