"Julia Roberts"

Summary

SmartLess: "Julia Roberts"

Hosts: Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett
Guest: Julia Roberts
Date: October 13, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this lively and heartfelt episode, the SmartLess trio welcomes America’s sweetheart, Julia Roberts. The conversation meanders through Julia’s Georgia roots, her quirky path to stardom, vivid theatre memories, her enduring marriage, parenthood, and her new film After the Hunt. The episode is packed with warmth, humor, personal anecdotes, and classic SmartLess banter—offering fresh insights even for longtime Julia Roberts fans.

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Notable Segments & Key Insights

1. SmartLess Catch-Up & Introduction to Julia Roberts

Timestamps: 02:18—06:59

• The hosts tease Will’s new apartment in New York (02:20), reminisce about charity work, and joke about old acronyms (“TAG: talented and gifted… or tight ass gays?”—04:03).
• Sean’s Surprise Reveal: Sean introduces Julia, sharing fun facts from her upbringing to her musical skills and highlighting that Martin Luther King Jr. paid her hospital bill when she was born (06:24).
• Great Julia Moment:
  • Julia: “When I was born, Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta paid the hospital bill... so we could go out the front door.” (07:45)

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2. Early Life & Family Stories

Timestamps: 07:05—12:02

• Martin Luther King Jr. Connection: Julia’s parents ran a theater school attended by the King children, establishing a friendship with the King family (10:52).
• Julia reminisces about meeting Jason’s mom on the set of Satisfaction, where she starred with Jason’s sister, Justine Bateman (09:09).
• The group jokes about clarinets, spit valves, and unlikely musical talents (“Just making sure the reed is nice and wet…”—10:19).

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3. Theater Antics & Stage Mishaps

Timestamps: 12:07—15:17

• Julia’s Broadway Debut Story:
  • Julia tells a hilarious “opening night” story from her play Three Days of Rain with Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd, involving a rogue prop and a perfectly timed audience assist (13:47–15:15).
  • Quote: “Someone working on the show... sort of commando-crawls down the aisle and says to the man in the front row, ‘Sir, pick that up and just put it on the stage.’” (14:06)
  • The hosts and Julia marvel at the “magic of theater” and going off-script live.

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4. From Veterinary Aspirations to Hollywood

Timestamps: 15:17—20:32

• Julia once dreamed of being a vet, even joined the 4H Club, but realized science “wasn’t really my thing—I just wanted to do the petting” (16:05).
• She worked at Athlete’s Foot in NYC, followed her sister there, and almost got into modeling (“I did go meet a really nice woman… at Click Models”—18:02–18:30).

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5. Breaking Into Acting

Timestamps: 20:32—28:47

• First Professional Gig:
  • Julia’s first TV role was on Crime Story (27:16). She describes the excitement and surreal feeling of starting out in New York.
• Early Mentorship:
  • Julia shares how a chance meeting with an agent, Bob McGowan, changed her career trajectory. He also helped launch Dylan Walsh’s career (29:59).

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6. Meteoric Rise: From Mystic Pizza to Pretty Woman

Timestamps: 31:10—33:39

• Defining Moment:
  • Mystic Pizza gave her the confidence to focus on acting as a career (31:10).
  • She reflects on how Pretty Woman changed her life—albeit, she missed the instant fame at first:
    "When Pretty Woman came out, did it just completely change your life? I was out of town when it came out...so in a way, the momentum of that moment passed me by a little bit." (31:54–33:03)

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7. Industry Wisdom & Staying Grounded

Timestamps: 33:39—34:26

• Julia on fame and choice:
  • “There’s so much more choice than we allow ourselves to believe… I have long given up reading anything.” (33:31–34:04)
  • She still finds acting “so fun”; calling it “such a goofy little job.” (34:11)

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8. Family, Marriage & Balance

Timestamps: 37:30—43:12

• Marriage Insights:
  • Julia and Danny Moder (her husband) are best friends and “the only person I wanna make out with”—her secret: friendship plus attraction (39:00–39:12).
  • She recalls their atypical courtship on The Mexican, describing her failed attempts to join Danny’s film-geek conversations with Brad Pitt (40:04).
• Parenting & Empty-Nesting:
  • Julia’s kids just left for college—describing the new “empty nest” (42:47). Her advice: “It’s when the kids leave and you turn around and you’re like, ‘Who are you?’—that’s when you run into troubles.” (43:09–43:13)

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9. Memorable Personal Stories & Humor Amid Hardship

Timestamps: 44:22—53:41

• Julia and the hosts swap stories about nostalgia, loss, and dealing with hardship through humor.
• Sean’s emotional story about his mother’s Alzheimer’s and the necessity of laughter (“If you didn’t laugh, you’d cry.”—50:59).
• Julia, on her late father: if she could relive one year, “any year before my father passed away... just to have any year with the knowledge that this is special because it’s not gonna last.” (49:23–49:47)

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10. Julia’s New Film: After the Hunt

Timestamps: 54:55—58:17

• About the Film:
  • Julia stars in After the Hunt, directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) (55:56).
  • Sean praises the film—“Your performance was incredible...the reveal was so cool” (55:47).
  • Julia details Luca’s unique directorial style, and the Venice Film Festival’s “six-minute standing ovation” (57:09–57:21).
• Julia has never experienced a festival launch like Venice or Cannes before, and finds the glitz “terrifying,” but says: “Once you commit to it… you gotta have a sporting event mentality.” (58:06-58:55)
• After the Hunt runs in select theaters from October 10, wide October 17. (60:26)

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Memorable Quotes

• “I just think, gosh, my life could have gone off the rails a hundred different ways in the last 25 years were it not for finding my person.”
  — Julia Roberts on her marriage to Danny Moder (39:54)

• “It’s such a goofy little job. I love it so much.”
  — Julia on what still draws her to acting (34:11)

• “The magic of theater...”
  — Jason Bateman, floored by Julia’s prop story (15:15)

• “If you didn’t laugh, you’d cry.”
  — Will Arnett, discussing how the group copes with family hardships (50:59)

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Fun Facts & Nuggets

• Martin Luther King Jr. paid her hospital bill (07:45, 10:52).
• Julia’s parents ran an Atlanta children’s theater school frequented by the King family.
• She learned to knit from a painter on The Pelican Brief set (20:32).
• Julia keeps a stash of handwritten letters to and from Danny in special ceramic pots (47:34).
• She might casually store iconic film costumes—like Runaway Bride wedding dresses—in her garage (59:24).
• Meryl Streep once gave her a hand-drawn wrap gift from August: Osage County (60:13).

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Closing Banter & Reflections

Timestamps: 60:26–64:00+

• Julia expresses genuine affection and fun having joined the podcast, and shares how her family binge-watches Arrested Development (62:11).
• The hosts reflect on Julia’s “iconic” resume and her ability to remain relevant, humble, and beloved (64:22).

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Episode Highlights by Timestamp

• 06:24 — Sean’s grand intro for Julia, includes MLK hospital bill fact
• 13:47 — Julia’s Three Days of Rain prop story
• 27:16 — First acting job (“Crime Story”)
• 31:10 — “Mystic Pizza” and career momentum
• 31:54 — Pretty Woman and missing her own launch into fame
• 39:00 — Insights into her marriage with Danny Moder
• 47:34 — Julia’s collection of family letters
• 54:55 — After the Hunt discussion
• 57:09 — Venice festival standing ovation story
• 59:24 — On keeping costumes as memorabilia
• 62:11 — Family watches Arrested Development together

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Summary

This heartwarming, hilarious episode offers rare glimpses into Julia Roberts’ personal life and creative journey. It covers everything from her unconventional start, famous family friendships, and love for craft, to her enduring marriage and approach to both family and fame. The SmartLess hosts’ signature rapport delivers plenty of laughs and affection, keeping the tone light—even while touching on deeper themes like loss, nostalgia and choosing joy. A must-listen (or read) for fans of Julia, the SmartLess trio, and candid, charismatic conversation.

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Julia Roberts’ newest film, "After the Hunt," premieres in select theaters October 10 and wide on October 17, 2025.

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End of summary.

Transcript

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[Sean Hayes]

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[Will Arnett]

All right, so we're here. Are we cold open? Did you say bowl open?

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, I said bowl open.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, you're trying to do like a shameless post thing about the Hollywood bowl that we're going to be at the.

[Sean Hayes]

Hollywood bowl on November 15th.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, on November 15th. Or you think that I'm going to sit here and do a cold open? That's just a shameless plug of Smartless live at the Hollywood bowl on November 15th. Sean, get a grip. I'm not going to do it. Tickets are on sale now. You want me to say that? That you want me to say smartless.com live you want me to say that?

[Sean Hayes]

Well, no, I didn't want to. I wasn't saying you should say no. I'm just saying it's gross.

[Will Arnett]

It's gross.

[Sean Hayes]

All right.

[Will Arnett]

Cuz then I'm sitting here and I'm going Smartless live at the Hollywood Bowl November 15th. You know, tickets on sale [e-mail] live. Gross, dude. Gross.

[Sean Hayes]

Let's just get. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

[Will Arnett]

Okay? Just don't insult me again. SmartLess live November 15th. Let's go to the show.

[Sean Hayes]

Also, welcome to Smart List.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, obviously that SM Smart. Smart Lawless.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, Willie, where are you?

[Jason Bateman]

New York City.

[Will Arnett]

It's my new place in New York.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. Do you love it?

[Sean Hayes]

What do you mean? You got a place?

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, that's amazing.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Where are you? Are you doing press Willie for your movie?

[Will Arnett]

No, no, no. I'm just not yet. I'm about to, but I'm just getting sort of sorted here in my place.

[Sean Hayes]

Sure. You might be see front. Oh, look, he's got Dollar Bill. He's got a gambling issue.

[Jason Bateman]

I've got a. He likes to be as close to Atlantic City as possible without going. Uhhuh.

[Sean Hayes]

Wait, how are you? How is everybody doing? We haven't seen each other in so. In like two weeks.

[Jason Bateman]

I know. I don't like it.

[Will Arnett]

I saw JB last week a couple times. We played golf and then we went to an event. We did a little charity work together.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, yeah. Will did some. Some. Some MCing of a. A very special charity event. The yes. Charity.

[Will Arnett]

Yes.

[Sean Hayes]

What is that about?

[Will Arnett]

So our friend Eric Eisner's charity, the Young Eisner Scholars. It's a really great. Actually, look it up. It's a very worthy cause and they identify, you know, kids from underserved communities who. Who are really smart and helps might.

[Jason Bateman]

Not otherwise have access to funds for higher education or for secondary education, however.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

[Sean Hayes]

That is nice. I was part of the tag group when I was a kid. It stood for talented and gifted. And I couldn't do math, Couldn't do anything. Don't know why.

[Jason Bateman]

I'd love to just kind of just send it out to the group there. Just freestyle on that acronym there. I know will want to try a shot at that acronym.

[Will Arnett]

I mean, I do.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, I do.

[Will Arnett]

I mean, go ahead, Go ahead.

[Jason Bateman]

No, let's not now.

[Sean Hayes]

Talented and gay. Is that what it is?

[Jason Bateman]

No.

[Sean Hayes]

Okay.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, you think I'm going to say tight ass gays.

[Jason Bateman]

Take cheap shots.

[Will Arnett]

I'm take a cheap shot, dude.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh my God.

[Will Arnett]

Walking into your.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, did Will just get a coffee from someone special?

[Will Arnett]

I might have.

[Jason Bateman]

Was that the. Is it the chef that just brought you some?

[Sean Hayes]

Today she is.

[Will Arnett]

Today she is.

[Jason Bateman]

You know, everybody is so excited about your new love, Willie.

[Sean Hayes]

Wait, I got to tell you one thing really quick. Yesterday we visited Shawn Levy, our friend Shawn Levy, on the set of Star wars yesterday.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, my God. Did you guys even get to sleep last night?

[Sean Hayes]

No. It was incredible.

[Will Arnett]

Look, are you going to be able to do the show with a boner?

[Jason Bateman]

You're in hour 19 of that boner. Your lightsaber.

[Sean Hayes]

Who needs Viagra?

[Will Arnett]

The people from Viagra called and they're like, hey, can we take your blood? Because we need to know.

[Jason Bateman]

Let me see that picture.

[Will Arnett]

Let me see that photo again.

[Sean Hayes]

Well, you can't.

[Jason Bateman]

You. So listener. This is right. This is.

[Sean Hayes]

That's the new droid in the new. In the new film.

[Julia Roberts]

Wow.

[Jason Bateman]

How do they let you get a picture of that.

[Sean Hayes]

Well, we went to go to the.

[Will Arnett]

Creature shop, and you promised that you wouldn't show it.

[Sean Hayes]

Listen to this. It's a trap movie.

[Will Arnett]

It's a trap.

[Sean Hayes]

Remember? It's a trap. Scotty. Look at. Scotty's making Admiral Akbar move. Isn't that wild?

[Jason Bateman]

No, that's weird that he's remembering a line of dialogue from. Oh, my God. He's making the mountain.

[Sean Hayes]

Return of the Jedi.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Look at that.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, my God, you guys. That must have been, like, best day ever.

[Sean Hayes]

It was incred. It was. And Shawn Levy, of course, is the greatest. Jay, You, Jason, you would do so well at directing one of those movies. I don't know why.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, like one of those. Let him know, Sean.

[Will Arnett]

Let him know.

[Sean Hayes]

All right.

[Jason Bateman]

Thanks, Mom. My mom once said, you know what? Why you should. You should call Steven Spielberg and let him know you'd like to work with them.

[Sean Hayes]

Let's do it.

[Jason Bateman]

What a great idea.

[Will Arnett]

I know. I love stuff like that. How come you don't work with better? I remember somebody. Somebody who. Who. We know who. But years ago, and she said that another person we know is very famous. Said to her, like, you know, you should work with the greats and the Scorsese. And then she was like, oh, okay. Well, just give me their number.

[Sean Hayes]

Sign up. Like the.

[Will Arnett]

Why didn't I think of that?

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, you're right.

[Sean Hayes]

Listen, speaking of one of the greats.

[Will Arnett]

Guys, I love grades.

[Sean Hayes]

My guest today had quite the historic beginning. I just wrote this last night.

[Jason Bateman]

No, I.

[Sean Hayes]

When she was born, Martin Luther King, Jr. And his wife Coretta paid the hospital bill. Didn't know this until I looked it up. She grew up in Georgia playing the clarinet in the school band, which I loved learning about. After graduation, she moved to New York, sold running shoes. Guess what? Chased an acting dream on a film set 30 years ago, she picked up knitting. Hasn't put the needles down since. Her kids once asked her if she was more famous than Taylor Swift. These days, she's happiest at a ranch in New Mexico. You could call her an Oscar winner. You could call her America's sweetheart. You call her my sweetheart. But today I'll just call her the brilliant and always Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, I got it.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, my God.

[Sean Hayes]

Julia Roberts.

[Jason Bateman]

Hello, Julia.

[Sean Hayes]

Ooh, and the bright yellow. That's so cute.

[Jason Bateman]

She's wearing a firefighter uniform, folks.

[Julia Roberts]

It's Boy Scouts.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, Boy Scouts.

[Will Arnett]

It's Boy Scouts.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, it is Boy Scouts.

[Jason Bateman]

I did a little Boy Scouts.

[Will Arnett]

Julie Roberts. Hi.

[Jason Bateman]

How cool that you're doing this.

[Julia Roberts]

Thank you, Sean, for that. For that intro.

[Sean Hayes]

All my research.

[Julia Roberts]

Sort of like a haiku about one's grandma. Grandmother or something. The clarinet and knitting.

[Sean Hayes]

Wait, I didn't know you played the clarinet and the oboe.

[Julia Roberts]

Those are two of the oboe.

[Sean Hayes]

Those are the two hardest instruments.

[Will Arnett]

Wait a second. You don't want to get into. Martin Luther King paid for the hospital.

[Jason Bateman]

No, I was gonna get there too. So let's start with that. Martin Luther King paid the bill. Why?

[Sean Hayes]

They were friends with your parents?

[Julia Roberts]

Yes. And my. And I. And I not knowing the state of my family's financial situation as a brand new. I guess they were maybe just gonna have to smuggle me out in the middle of the night and so this made it. We could go out the front door.

[Jason Bateman]

I'm gonna sound dumber than usual.

[Will Arnett]

Boy, this is gonna be a stretch. Okay, good.

[Jason Bateman]

What is the bill for having a baby in a. Like, isn't that usually like in 1975. Right. Like. But is it?

[Julia Roberts]

Thanks. My new favorite, Will Arnett.

[Jason Bateman]

He's slick.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah. You've got kids, you know, this is not. These are not cheap endeavors.

[Will Arnett]

He's so out of touch.

[Jason Bateman]

Sags. But my Screen Actors Guild insurance. Wait, but isn't it all paid by the mystery elves that are insurance? Isn't that they're the same people that do the laundry?

[Julia Roberts]

Right.

[Jason Bateman]

Julia. Welcome to Spotless.

[Will Arnett]

Welcome to Miracle. So much for this.

[Julia Roberts]

But you know what's amazing is I am such a Jason Bateman fan. And this up close exchange, now that we've seen each other in person and we've never. I'm like, really just like staring at you right now and you can't even tell.

[Jason Bateman]

And I could spend years with you. You're the greatest.

[Julia Roberts]

Do you know the first Bateman I ever truly loved is your mom.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, my mom.

[Julia Roberts]

Your mom. When I met your mom on a plane, she is just like. She's just such a. You just. She just has sparks that kind of shoot off. She's so beautiful and so sweet. And the accent and the whole thing.

[Jason Bateman]

And just the British accent. She nailed it.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Now, was she. Cause she was a flight attendant for Pan Am. Did you meet her?

[Julia Roberts]

Pan Am? I mean, that just adds to the.

[Jason Bateman]

Allure with the fuller hat and everything. Or was it on set of Satisfaction? It was on set.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah. It was on Satisfaction. Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Wait, why was your mom on the set of Satisfaction?

[Jason Bateman]

Cause I guess Justine wasn't yet 18. Maybe. Or was she. Or was my mom just there visiting maybe? So Julia was in a movie with my sister. Justine.

[Julia Roberts]

Way back when, it was before we were on location, we were in Los Angeles for a long time because I came out to California, and I was probably there for, like, at least three weeks before we went on location because we had all that band practice, you see.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, boy. So cringy.

[Julia Roberts]

If only I could have played the clarinet in that movie.

[Jason Bateman]

Will does a great horn player.

[Will Arnett]

Eric Clarinet.

[Jason Bateman]

Eric Clarinet. Just making sure the reed is nice and wet.

[Sean Hayes]

And wet. And then, like, I only do the.

[Will Arnett]

Theme song of Law and Order.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, right. Getting there.

[Will Arnett]

And then I wet the reed as I'm waiting. Flip the page.

[Sean Hayes]

Scotty does that, too. All the time. You ever let the spit out at the bottom?

[Will Arnett]

So dumb.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. Careful.

[Julia Roberts]

Spit out.

[Jason Bateman]

All right. So wait, where were we? So we were. Martin Luther King paid the bill.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

That's just incredible.

[Sean Hayes]

Isn't that wild?

[Jason Bateman]

It's incredible. Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Right? And, I mean, how did they know each other, Julia?

[Julia Roberts]

My parents had a theater school, and the King kids went to that school.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, wow.

[Julia Roberts]

And so then my parents became friends with them.

[Sean Hayes]

That's amazing.

[Jason Bateman]

So the King kids wanted to be actors.

[Julia Roberts]

I mean, I think one of them. And again, this is. I'm reaching back into my first days of life. But as I recall, I think one of them did have maybe some acting aspirations. But it was more than anything, I think it was just sort of, you know, hobbyist, after school weekend kind of thing to do with your kids and.

[Will Arnett]

Wait, so your parents ran a theater school or, like a theater thing? Sean, imagine the stories. The theater.

[Sean Hayes]

I can't even.

[Will Arnett]

Sean is going crazy now.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, he loves a good theater story.

[Will Arnett]

Sean loves a theater story.

[Jason Bateman]

Well, now, Julie, you've done a lot of great things.

[Sean Hayes]

You've done Broadway.

[Jason Bateman]

You have any, like, anybody ever have a heart attack in the crowd? Let's just get right to it.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, let's get to it.

[Jason Bateman]

He usually saves these winners for the end.

[Julia Roberts]

No. Well, I have an opening night story that is pretty good, but it might be long. Maybe it's better.

[Will Arnett]

No, no, no, no.

[Jason Bateman]

We've got 45 minutes left.

[Will Arnett]

Never too long.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Julia Roberts]

Well, so I did a play with Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd.

[Jason Bateman]

I saw this one. This one with the rain. The rain? Yes.

[Will Arnett]

What a cast.

[Sean Hayes]

I was there.

[Julia Roberts]

It rained inside the theater, which was great for everyone, but the people in the front row, which we discovered, they were all kind of being pelted.

[Will Arnett]

But Julie didn't.

[Sean Hayes]

Three days of rain was gone.

[Will Arnett]

Every day someone would go, like, oh, my God, I'm wet. And it's like, well, yeah, that's the congrats.

[Jason Bateman]

You got Pearl Roast.

[Julia Roberts]

Well, I don't think you go to the theater thinking that the rain in the show is going to get on you. I wouldn't think that, no.

[Sean Hayes]

Right.

[Julia Roberts]

But, you know, we had rehearsed this play, as you guys know, right. It goes on and on and on forever, and then it just. All you want to do is start the thing. So opening night comes, and nerves are high just even thinking about it. I'm getting a little short of breath. And get your beta blocker. Yeah. So the play starts. Paul's on stage by himself, and it's his apartment set. And there's just this sort of, like, bare mattress apartment in New York. And he's reading this. He's thumbing through this book, and then there's a knock at the door. Open the door, and it's his sister, played by yours truly, clarinet player. And I come in and he's. What's in his hand is our father's diary that he's just found. And he's been reading it, and he's crazed and he's manic over what he's discovered. And he's talking about it, and he's talking about it, and he tosses it on the bed as he has done 9458 times in rehearsal.

[Sean Hayes]

Right?

[Julia Roberts]

And this book skitters across the mattress, hits the front of the stage and into the aisle.

[Sean Hayes]

No way. No way.

[Julia Roberts]

Which is fine for the next four and a half minutes until I say, but.

[Jason Bateman]

And you gotta open it.

[Julia Roberts]

Look at this. Right, Right? Or Paul says. Paul says it. He picks it up. And so we keep going, but we're looking at each other like this has never happened before. What happens when this happens? Because this has never happen. Meanwhile, someone working on the show who has seen this happen, sort of commando, crawls down the aisle and says to the man in the front row, sir, you know, pick that up and just put it on the stage. And the man's like, what? Huh? What? Paul and I are acting our little hearts out. Just pick it up, put it.

[Jason Bateman]

Look how excited Sean is. This is one of the great stories.

[Julia Roberts]

So the man picks it up and he kind of, like, doesn't quite. I mean, I wouldn't want to touch up, you know. And he puts it on the stage at the exact. You couldn't have planned it better. At the exact moment that Paul goes, no, I'll read it to you. And he picks it up.

[Sean Hayes]

Ah, that's great.

[Julia Roberts]

At the second. And then Paul, being the amazing Human being that he is, just turns and looks at the man. He goes, thank you. And everybody in the audience, you could just feel everybody just let out their breath that we didn't realize we were holding. And we sort of went on from there.

[Jason Bateman]

This is the magic of theater.

[Sean Hayes]

You know, I want to get back to the beginning, Julia, because I did all this research, and it was. You know, you think you know somebody, and then you actually do read about them. You're like, oh, I didn't know how to.

[Julia Roberts]

And then you realize, wow, nothing that I've read is actually factual.

[Sean Hayes]

We believe so. Wait, so when you were a kid, you wanted. So you played the clarinet? We covered that. You were a vet. You sold shoes.

[Jason Bateman]

We really haven't covered that. I'm gonna double back on that.

[Julia Roberts]

I was doctor. Did you hear? He goes, you were a vet and you sold shoes?

[Sean Hayes]

No. You wanted to be a vet? A veterinarian of pets?

[Julia Roberts]

Yes.

[Sean Hayes]

I didn't know that. That's so cool.

[Jason Bateman]

Wait, how old were you before the vet thing went away? Cause doesn't every kid wants to be a vet?

[Julia Roberts]

Everybody does. I was in the 4H club. I mean, like, I thought this was great, and it wasn't until I discovered that I don't really have a mind for science.

[Sean Hayes]

Right, right, right.

[Julia Roberts]

I just wanted to do the petting and the. You know, I could take out a toothbrush and put some mange medicine on if necessary, but I didn't want to do surgeries.

[Jason Bateman]

What was the most involved thing you've ever done with an animal? Like, have you. Have you milked a cow? Have you changed horseshoes?

[Julia Roberts]

I've milked a cow. I have not changed. Or I've watched the Farrier do it, but I've not done it myself.

[Jason Bateman]

What's it called? A Farrier. See, I would lose that on who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I wouldn't know what that means.

[Julia Roberts]

You could call me.

[Jason Bateman]

I could call you.

[Sean Hayes]

You would know.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, my God. She'd be your security caller or whatever. I'd like to call a friend.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, exactly.

[Will Arnett]

That'd be so good.

[Jason Bateman]

Well, how. Well, then, when did the acting. When you say, yeah, no, screw veterinarian. I want to be an actor.

[Julia Roberts]

I mean, I don't know that I had that kind of moment where I thought, this is the path I want my life to take. I mean, my parents were artists. I have an older brother and sister. They were their artists. My sister was going to the neighborhood playhouse when I moved to New York and moved in with her. And that's When I was working at the athlete's foot on 72nd and Broadway, right by the Grace, Papaya and Popeyes.

[Will Arnett]

No way.

[Sean Hayes]

That's great.

[Julia Roberts]

And I worked there for a while, and I think it was just realizing that college was not going to be in the cards for me. And I didn't really know what. I didn't know what I was gonna do. I mean, I had moved to New York really, just because I wanted to be back with my sister. Because she had been gone for two years and we were so close and I missed her and I.

[Jason Bateman]

Gone from Georgia.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

But you were like. You were thinking, what, that you were just gonna go to New York and something was gonna. Something different was gonna happen.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. I don't wanna embarrass you, but was modeling a poll at all?

[Julia Roberts]

I did get called in to a couple of agencies, and there was an agency called Click Models. God, I completely forgot about this. You have jogged a piece of the puzzle out of my head.

[Jason Bateman]

Let's get into it.

[Julia Roberts]

And I did go meet a really nice woman there with flick and click.

[Jason Bateman]

Wasn't it flick and click?

[Julia Roberts]

I don't think so.

[Jason Bateman]

No.

[Julia Roberts]

That doesn't sound good at all.

[Sean Hayes]

I think that's something else. Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

No, no, no, I think it was. I actually think it was.

[Julia Roberts]

No, it was click, click. Modeling click. Like camera click. There's no flicking click and flick.

[Jason Bateman]

So it was. I swear to God.

[Will Arnett]

Anyway, I think that's a massage. Okay, so wait, so ju. But really, to answer the question, you weren't like, okay, I'm leaving Georgia now. I'm gonna be an actor, so I'm moving to New York. You were going. Cause your sister was there and you've just left.

[Sean Hayes]

But Eric had already been working.

[Julia Roberts]

No, he's 11 years older than I am, so he had a career by the time I graduated from high school. But to answer your question, everybody was sort of leaving home to go to school. And I did not want to be like, okay, I'll see you guys when you get back. Right here in my mom's apartment. Nobody worry.

[Jason Bateman]

What about college? You said college wasn't a thing for you. Why was that? Cause it wasn't for me.

[Julia Roberts]

It wasn't financially feasible. And I certainly didn't have the grades for any kind of a scholarship and.

[Jason Bateman]

Should have called the King family.

[Julia Roberts]

I'd relied on them once already. I just felt like I didn't want them to have to support me the whole way around.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

And were you to study something in college at that age? Had the Veterinary thing had gone. Had passed. Right.

[Julia Roberts]

I think I probably would at that time. Cause you have to Remember, this is 1985. I graduated from high school, and I probably would have wanted to be a home economics teacher.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, wow.

[Julia Roberts]

Something I'm happy to bring back into the school system now. If asked, what's a home.

[Sean Hayes]

What does that mean, Home economics? What does that mean professionally?

[Julia Roberts]

So many things. I'm glad you asked.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, like, uh.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, here we go. Here we go.

[Sean Hayes]

Well, I'm an idiot. I don't know what that is.

[Julia Roberts]

No, it was such a great class because it covered. It was like. Yeah, sewing. But it was like sewing, mending. It was practical things. You learn how to write a check. You learn how to sew on a button. You learn how to iron a shirt, you learn.

[Sean Hayes]

Is that where you learn knitting?

[Julia Roberts]

Make a. No, that I learned. I learned how to knit from the standby painter on the Pelican brief. Eric Bart taught me how to knit.

[Sean Hayes]

Wow.

[Jason Bateman]

The standby painter. Yeah. They got a lot of kit stuff right there. Wait.

[Sean Hayes]

Right at your disposal.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, yeah, they got that bucket they sit on. It's got a bunch of stuff in there. Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

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[Jason Bateman]

Hey, I feel like I'm not a great parent for many reasons. One of them is that I haven't taught my kids how to iron, how to wash a window without getting streaks on it, how like my parents, like, I had 20 chores every weekend until the day I moved out when I was 18. Have you been good about teaching your kids? Like, do they know how to like iron a shirt without wrinkling the fabric that's underneath it? How to separate it over an ironing board and put the sleeve over the little the little wedge portion of the board and, like, all that stuff, like, you don't know it till you know it.

[Julia Roberts]

You don't know it till you know it. Well, I would say there's a yes and a no here, because I feel like a lot of the things that I learned from my mom, I either learned because, like, you. Long list of chores that started right when I got home from school and paused only to watch the Mike Douglas show. And then right back to the chores.

[Jason Bateman]

Mike Douglas.

[Julia Roberts]

I love it.

[Jason Bateman]

Phil Donahue.

[Will Arnett]

I mean, jb, Were you ever on the Mike Douglas Show?

[Jason Bateman]

No, No. I got bumped a couple times, but. No, I'm kidding.

[Will Arnett]

Did you?

[Julia Roberts]

No. You couldn't possibly. Even in your.

[Jason Bateman]

I did do Merv Griffin. I did Oprah. What else?

[Julia Roberts]

Phil Donahue.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Never Phil Donahue.

[Sean Hayes]

You know what? I slept with this guy, and Chicago named Phil Donahue.

[Will Arnett]

What a headline this is gonna be. Sean Hayes slept with Phil Donahue.

[Julia Roberts]

Not B. Phil Donahue. A Phil Donahue.

[Jason Bateman]

Now his wife, Philip K. Donahue.

[Sean Hayes]

No, I just slept with a guy once in Chicago, and then he ended up on the Phil Donahue show because he was the Chicago. He was the Chicago weatherman. That. Then porn, it was so crazy. And my family.

[Julia Roberts]

You just said so many things in one sentence.

[Sean Hayes]

I know. Isn't that crazy? I slept with him once, and I remember his name. And he was a Chicago weatherman on the tv. And then I. Then one day he was on Phil Donahue because he left that career and was a porn star. I was like, what? It was the craziest thing.

[Jason Bateman]

Wait, you had no. You had no warning on this. You were just watching your Donahue like you do every day?

[Sean Hayes]

Yep, that's it.

[Jason Bateman]

There he is, and there's your guy, and he's on there because it was like a porn story that had gone wrong.

[Sean Hayes]

Wrong.

[Jason Bateman]

That. What? That's.

[Sean Hayes]

No, it was. No, it was. No, it was. In America was like, wow, there's a gay person on television. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. That was way before.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, Shawnee.

[Sean Hayes]

Anyway, let's get back to you.

[Will Arnett]

Let's get back. You know what?

[Jason Bateman]

I want to get everybody take a quick shower. Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

So, Julia, what? I. What? I don't know. And maybe Wicked Beauty can answer this, but I'd love to hear from you. What was the first. What was your first professional acting gig? Yeah.

[Julia Roberts]

Crime Story.

[Jason Bateman]

What a precursor to Law and Order. Am I being a dummy?

[Julia Roberts]

Dennis Farina, 1950s Michael Mann TV show in Las Vegas. Dennis Farina, the nicest man, the great. You could imagine.

[Will Arnett]

The great Dennis Frena.

[Jason Bateman]

And what was your character? Were you a damsel in distress or were you a badass?

[Julia Roberts]

I was a 15 year old girl living with my mother, played by Hannah Cobb and her, I feel like, kind of newish husband and he was maybe not being a good stepfather to me. No, Julia, if you catch my. I'm really bringing the mood down with this. This is no weatherman turned porn star story. But yeah, so did that, and that was a great experience. And, you know. But.

[Will Arnett]

You were living in New York at the time you got cast out of New York.

[Julia Roberts]

Yes.

[Will Arnett]

Okay, so it's a big. It was a big moment. It was exciting at the time, obviously.

[Julia Roberts]

Oh, it was huge. It was huge.

[Jason Bateman]

So then you were able to sort of start. Start your work and start to gain momentum before there was huge pressure on you to. To sort of pay a lot of rent and to really, like, declare, this is what my career is going to be. So you were still young enough to kind of like dip your toe in it and see if you get any traction. Is that kind of how. How things started?

[Julia Roberts]

That sounds nice the way you put all that. Let's somebody jot that down. Well, you know what, it is too.

[Will Arnett]

He likes to bundle. He's bundling.

[Julia Roberts]

Just to say, I met. There was an agent. I was with my brother and his girlfriend coming from dinner one night. And, you know, they lived uptown and so they sort of ran into some people they knew and one of the women they were chatting with was a talent agent. And she. I don't know if she called my brother later or his girlfriend or something and said, oh, you know, does she act or. And she called me into her office and after a nice conversation, she said, well, I can't do anything for you, but I know someone who might be able to guide you here. And she sent me to meet this man called Bob McGowan who was from Atlantic City and was dating the star of All My Children, Kim Delaney.

[Sean Hayes]

Yes, I know.

[Julia Roberts]

And he was just this. He seemed to me to be the nicest, most energetic guy with time and money to spare. And he loved helping young people realize their dreams. I mean, I once went into. He became my manager. I once went into his office and said, bob, I was at the Empire Diner today, and there's this guy, he was our waiter and he wants to be an actor. And I said, you've got to come meet Bob. He did, and he signed him. And that was Dylan Walsh.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, my God.

[Sean Hayes]

Wow.

[Julia Roberts]

So Bob was just this kind of incredible man who just loved being the facilitator you know, he just loved putting people together, and that was kind of.

[Jason Bateman]

A nice early advocate. And you stayed with him for a while.

[Julia Roberts]

Yes.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. And then what was the. Then the project that gave you the kind of momentum that would push you into sort of like. Well, I. I need not pursue other things. I think this might work out for at least a few years.

[Julia Roberts]

Mystic Pizza.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

Didn't you get.

[Sean Hayes]

Did you get nominated for that or. No?

[Julia Roberts]

No.

[Sean Hayes]

Okay.

[Will Arnett]

Way to go, Sean.

[Jason Bateman]

Nice.

[Will Arnett]

You know, is there and is.

[Julia Roberts]

I did get nominated for Independent Spirit award for Mystic Pizza.

[Jason Bateman]

That's what you're thinking of, Sean, right? That is what he was thinking of.

[Julia Roberts]

And I lost to Jody Foster for Five Corners.

[Sean Hayes]

All right, Julia, was there.

[Will Arnett]

Was there. Again, I say this a lot, but at risk of embarrassing you, was there sort of Mystic Pizza, you know, crime story, then Mystic Pizza and everything? Was there a kind of a life before Pretty Woman and life after Pretty Woman? Is that fair to say? It must have changed your life in.

[Sean Hayes]

A lot of way?

[Julia Roberts]

Well, you know, I kind of. It was a joke to start with, but it's actually completely true when people say, oh, you know, when Pretty Woman came out, did it just completely change your life? And I said, well, I was out of town when it came out, which is the joke. But I was on location shooting Sleeping with the Enemy, one of my faves. Tiny little town. Thank you. And it wasn't playing at the Sticky Shoe theater where I was. And I remember one of the crew guys was reading USA Today, and he goes, hey, hey, your movie's in the paper. And it just kind of said, like, you know, box office. There was like a little square and it said pretty Woman and it said what the box office was. Number meant nothing to me. I was like, hey, great. I mean, I didn't know if it was a great number, if it was a good number, if it was like, wow. And yeah. So in a way, the momentum of that moment passed me by a little bit, so I think I was probably spared.

[Sean Hayes]

Well, you were also in work mode, and that helps as a distraction to that kind of stuff, right?

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Do you long for those days of sort of the naivete and sort of just like. Well, just kind of just doing the work and having the fun and playing make believe and not being aware of sort of the machinations of this interesting business, or do you like how complicated this business is?

[Julia Roberts]

Is it complicated?

[Jason Bateman]

Well, in certain areas. In the areas that are completely unpredictable and without any sort of meritocracy, I.

[Julia Roberts]

Guess I just feel like, there's so much more choice than we allow ourselves to believe. Like, I can choose to get super caught up in some of the things that really we have no control over. I have long given up reading anything.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Julia Roberts]

And I don't know. I don't know.

[Jason Bateman]

You still just love doing it for what you're doing, right?

[Julia Roberts]

It's so fun. I love it so much. It's such a goofy little job.

[Will Arnett]

And I have a Google News alert on you. Just don't worry. So I'm reading all your stuff for you and you're fine.

[Julia Roberts]

I'm listening and I'm reading and I'm.

[Sean Hayes]

Wait, so when Steel. So you were filming Sleeping with the anime before Steel Magnolias?

[Julia Roberts]

No, Steel Magnolias was first. So I filmed Steel Magnolias. I filmed Mystic Pizza. And then I. Don't you have my IMDb help me.

[Sean Hayes]

Yes, I know, but I want you to tell it.

[Julia Roberts]

Then I did Steel Magnolias.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Julia Roberts]

Then I did Pretty Woman.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Julia Roberts]

Then I did Flatliners. Then I did Sleeping with the Enemy and me.

[Sean Hayes]

And then, you know. You know, the thing in Steel Magnolia is Scotty's diabetic. And when you had that scene, Scotty had a scene like that in real life. And I had. I'd only watched Steel Magnolia, like, for the first time, like seven, eight years ago.

[Jason Bateman]

Crazy.

[Sean Hayes]

No.

[Julia Roberts]

Thanks for the support.

[Jason Bateman]

Seven years ago.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, my God. I've seen Sleeping with the enemy like, 17 times. But I have. I've seen it a billion times. But no, the. But that scene was so real.

[Will Arnett]

Scotty's flatlining.

[Sean Hayes]

Go ahead. That scene was so real when you had the diabetic thing. And when he was. When we first started dating. We've been together almost 20 years. And he would do. Let's go on to the next question. Good Lord.

[Jason Bateman]

I feel like you're circling the airport. You're about to take the land.

[Julia Roberts]

Can I tell you because you said, has anything crazy ever happened during a play? But during screening of Steel Magnolias, there were a lot of reports of people having sort of like physical responses to.

[Sean Hayes]

That.

[Julia Roberts]

People who are predisposed to these outbursts, these conditions.

[Sean Hayes]

It's wild.

[Will Arnett]

Julia, I'm tell you a true story. Truer than Sean and Scotty, I guess, Flatlining. Watching Steelman. I don't know what happened, but no, no.

[Sean Hayes]

He almost died. And it was. But he was going into that kind of shaking, kind of crazy. And he.

[Jason Bateman]

Here we come. The landing gears down. I think landing gears down.

[Sean Hayes]

Approached the airport. It was amazing. An amazing performance. And how true to Life that actually really was.

[Julia Roberts]

Thank you. I'm with you. Someone just told me that there's, I think a smoothie place or something on Fire island and they have a smoothie called drink your juice, Shelby.

[Will Arnett]

Ah, yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Very good. Very.

[Will Arnett]

I'm going to say. I'm going to say.

[Jason Bateman]

Will any Fire island smoothie jokes.

[Julia Roberts]

Hey, Jason, I just like to tee.

[Will Arnett]

Him up, you know, I'm gonna say December 1991.

[Jason Bateman]

Thank you.

[Will Arnett]

Mary Lou, I'm in Stowe.

[Julia Roberts]

Mary Lou Henner, I'm with you.

[Will Arnett]

Skiing. Skiing with my dad and my brother.

[Julia Roberts]

Oh. I went to Stowe, Vermont.

[Will Arnett]

And I saw you having breakfast in this little breakfast place. I just remembered that I haven't thought about this in years. And you were with a bunch of people. People. And you were having breakfast and.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah, what did I eat?

[Will Arnett]

Not for nothing.

[Sean Hayes]

Wow. And mine was bad.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. Well, it just.

[Will Arnett]

Mine was short.

[Jason Bateman]

Great stories.

[Will Arnett]

Mine was short. Okay.

[Julia Roberts]

Well, yeah. And I was only there one time, Stove.

[Will Arnett]

The one time you were in so far.

[Sean Hayes]

There you go.

[Jason Bateman]

Can we talk about. I think. I mean, your career is just incredible and enormous and something we can.

[Sean Hayes]

Aaron Brockovit.

[Jason Bateman]

I mean, I want to the extent you're comfortable. I think one of the greatest things in your life is your marriage forever. And that's not common. And this guy is like a great guy, incredibly talented. I'm like. I really dork out over cinematographers. Can you. Would you. Are you comfortable talking about, like, is there a key? Is there a secret? I mean, this is like a great success story.

[Sean Hayes]

And how you met Danny Motor, everybody.

[Julia Roberts]

Danny Motor. Well, first, let me just say this is that he. I mean, I really like your podcast. He loves this podcast and I'm trying get him out here, be on it without telling him so that he would just like be tuning in. And all of a sudden there's this old lady's voice. But it didn't nice. And he saw my agenda book and he was like, smartless.

[Jason Bateman]

You're fans of guys.

[Sean Hayes]

I love that. I remember seeing you at a charity event and you were with Danny and you just looked at him and you go. And you looked at me and you go, isn't he the best?

[Jason Bateman]

I just love him.

[Sean Hayes]

And it was so sweet. I just thought that was the sweetest.

[Jason Bateman]

Julia. What's the secret, Dom?

[Julia Roberts]

I know I'm getting all sweaty. You know, it's really.

[Jason Bateman]

You never buddies.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah, well, he's my best friend.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, there you go.

[Julia Roberts]

But also the only person I wanna make out with. So I think it's that Combination of things is amen.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Julia Roberts]

But you know what? Here's the thing. Cause you just don't know. And you never wanna give all the credit away to one person and say, I owe it all to this one person. But honestly.

[Jason Bateman]

What's the section about? Kevin Hubain. Okay, here we go. I wanted to talk about Danny for Tracy.

[Sean Hayes]

He's an agent. He's a big agent.

[Julia Roberts]

But 25 years later, I mean, I just think, gosh, my life could have gone off the rails a hundred different ways in the last 25 years were it not for finding my person. I don't know how, I don't know what small nation of people I saved in a former life or I feel the same way.

[Jason Bateman]

Did you guys work on a project together? Is that how you met?

[Julia Roberts]

Yes, we met on a movie called the Mexican.

[Jason Bateman]

Ah, yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Good looking movie.

[Julia Roberts]

And he was, he was on that movie and I. They had been shooting for about three weeks and he. God, what was he. He was the focus puller in that movie.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Julia Roberts]

And he and Brad were always next to each other and, and always talking.

[Jason Bateman]

Right.

[Sean Hayes]

Brad Pitt, sister.

[Julia Roberts]

So I come in and I'm like, the new one. And I'm like, you know, they're talking about, I don't know, a new record that's come out or something. I'm like, oh, I love that.

[Sean Hayes]

Trying to jump in there.

[Julia Roberts]

I love that band. Oh yeah. Kind of start humming it and be like music. I know. And they're just like so locked into each other. I was just looking for a weight and the conversation and not realizing that one day this man that I was just trying to have a conversation with would be my husband.

[Sean Hayes]

Wow, that's so cute. And then you finally had a conversation.

[Julia Roberts]

We had a conversation. And he has not gotten me to shut up in 25 years.

[Sean Hayes]

I love that. I love that.

[Jason Bateman]

The fact that you're able to schedule and work out all these kind of. You go away, he goes away. Meet up every couple of weeks. Like, it's gotta be just so difficult. I know. High class problems. Listener. I.

[Julia Roberts]

These are high class problems. But you want to know something? We have in all these years and we have three awesome kids and only one time in our lives. And the kids were probably. They were all under five for sure. And now they're all in college. But there was one time when I was doing Eat Pray Love and Danny was shooting a movie in Detroit and we were apart.

[Jason Bateman]

So you were in India, right?

[Julia Roberts]

For seven weeks.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, wow, that's long.

[Julia Roberts]

And I mean, I was lucky because I at least had the kids with me. But he. And there was just no way, even. Even one time. I did have three days off in a row. And I thought, oh, great, we can, you know, and even if I went as the crow flies from New Delhi to Detroit, it's a day and a half. We could have hugged and I'd have to turn around. Like, it was so. It was seven weeks. And when he finished and he came and joined us.

[Jason Bateman]

Never again.

[Julia Roberts]

We were just like, wow, that will never work.

[Jason Bateman]

All right. You said the kids are in college now. How recent have you become an empty nest? Semester.

[Julia Roberts]

It's been two and a half weeks.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, my God. So I just, I just sent my first one away, but it was just down the street to usc. So I'm, I'm happy about that, but I, I'm. I'm not anticipating doing well when the 13 year old goes away in five years and being empty. Empty. How are you doing?

[Julia Roberts]

Yes. But you and your wife are crazy about each other, so it's all gonna be okay. I think it's when the kids leave and you turn around and you're like.

[Jason Bateman]

Like, ew, who are you?

[Julia Roberts]

What are you still doing here? That's when you run into troubles.

[Sean Hayes]

You were supposed to go too. Yeah.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah. Like, are you still here?

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

That's amazing. I love that you revealed just in that, you know, you're the first cover star of the brand new 72 magazine, which is really cool. And you revealed George Clooney interviewed you and you revealed your dream 7 person dinner guest list, which I love. And the first person you named was Danny, which was great.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, that's good.

[Sean Hayes]

And Jesus and Virginia Woolf and Joni Mitchell. It was a great list. I loved it. Yeah.

[Julia Roberts]

I mean, it's so funny because whenever someone asks you a question like that and, and you have to, you know, rapid fire answer and you feel like. And then afterwards you go like, oh, that'd be a good dinner party. And then of course, for the rest of the day it's like, oh, but what? Oh, it should have been this person. And what about that person? Yeah, yeah, but I think I did. I think I. I mean, wouldn't it? Jesus. Coming to dinner.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. I'm just trying to think, what would I ask him? Him what? What would I ask him today? You know, like last year or something? Yeah. George would be a good guest at that. Right?

[Julia Roberts]

George Clooney.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. Guy can talk.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Very good storyteller.

[Julia Roberts]

Great storyteller.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. He told us that classic about Crapping in the cat box.

[Julia Roberts]

Oh, my. It's. It's one of the greatest stories of all time.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, that is. And I hadn't heard it until he came out of the pocket. It was great.

[Julia Roberts]

Even better than hearing George tell it. Is Richard telling it? Because the voice. Richard's voice is so.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, cutie.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, he's great. I love that guy.

[Jason Bateman]

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[Sean Hayes]

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[Julia Roberts]

The family that vacations together stays together. At least that was the plan. Except now the dastardly desk clerk is saying he can't confirm you're connecting rooms. Wait, what? That's right, ma'.

[Will Arnett]

Am.

[Julia Roberts]

You have rooms 201 and 709. No, we cannot be five floors away from our kids.

[Will Arnett]

The doors have double locks. They'll be fine.

[Julia Roberts]

When you want connecting rooms confirmed before you arrive, it matters where you stay. Welcome to Hilton. I see your connecting rooms are already confirmed. Hilton for the stay.

[Jason Bateman]

And now back to the show.

[Sean Hayes]

Wait, so I read that you saved a seven page love letter from Danny to someday show your kids. And have you showed your kids?

[Julia Roberts]

That's the first letter he ever wrote me. I have all the letters. And in fact, someone gave us a great present many years ago. These two beautiful sort of ceramic earthen pots. And the lid on one pot. Pot inside is painted love letters to Julia from Danny. And the other one is to Danny from Julia. And so there's all these like, just shoving stuff in there for years. There's just no telling what's at the bottom of these jars.

[Sean Hayes]

Right.

[Julia Roberts]

But yeah, we are. We're big on paper in our house and our kids are now too. So it's nice to like. I opened a book the other day and there was a posted from my oldest son in the handwriting of maybe like a seven year old, which is not too dissimilar from his handwriting now, but I could see the time and it just said, mom, I'm so, so, so, so, so, so sorry.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh.

[Julia Roberts]

What did I do? And I thought, oh, I wish I had written on the other side of the post of like, what the, what.

[Sean Hayes]

The grievance was other than your wedding day and the birth of your gorgeous children. If you could pick one year to relive, what would it be? Because it was so great.

[Julia Roberts]

Because it was so great.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, I love that. Somebody just asked me that the other day.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, Sean's coming with a classic.

[Julia Roberts]

A whole year.

[Sean Hayes]

A whole year or a day? Or is there one day?

[Jason Bateman]

Don't back off, Sean.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, no, mine was. Mine was any day, any year in college. I just loved my college life. I loved it.

[Jason Bateman]

God, love to see that.

[Sean Hayes]

I was a crazy person. It was great.

[Julia Roberts]

You know, I don't know, I'm just thinking any year that I could go back and spend with. Before my father passed away. He passed away when I was young. And so I feel like even though I don't kind of say, oh, this was a great year and I want to relive that year just to have any year with the knowledge that this is special because it's not gonna last.

[Jason Bateman]

Was he the one that Was running the. The theater school. Was it your dad and your mom together?

[Julia Roberts]

It was my dad and my mom together. But I think my dad was. Was the. Was the captain.

[Jason Bateman]

Was he alive long enough to start to experience some of your. Your momentum?

[Julia Roberts]

No. I was a child.

[Jason Bateman]

He would have loved it.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah. Yeah. Did that. Did that. I mean, well, that's just a dumb question, but, like, what did you.

[Jason Bateman]

How did you.

[Julia Roberts]

How did that affect my life?

[Sean Hayes]

How is this holding you back?

[Will Arnett]

How's it holding you back now?

[Sean Hayes]

No, because my dad. I mean, I guess I haven't thought about it either. My dad left.

[Jason Bateman]

Get ready, Will.

[Sean Hayes]

My dad left when he. I was like 5 or 6.

[Will Arnett]

He did.

[Sean Hayes]

How he just literally shut the door.

[Jason Bateman]

He did. With the keys or.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

Surely he came back.

[Julia Roberts]

You guys are. Are cruel.

[Jason Bateman]

Was there a vehicle involved? We gotta have one of those things like Stern with the little sound things. Just the screeching tires. Anytime. His parents.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, you're right. We do. We need Fred here to do that.

[Sean Hayes]

No, but there was. There was something, like, with the fact.

[Julia Roberts]

I think growing up, abandonment can be funny.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah. Well, it has to be.

[Will Arnett]

If you didn't laugh, you'd cry. I think that that's the kind of, you know.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

I mean, my mom had Alzheimer's, too, which is once.

[Will Arnett]

I cried, so she doesn't remember him leaving.

[Julia Roberts]

Oh, my. Oh, my God, you guys.

[Will Arnett]

That's the good news.

[Julia Roberts]

I cannot play like this.

[Jason Bateman]

We find the good in everything.

[Sean Hayes]

You have to. This is how we love.

[Will Arnett]

This is how we love each other.

[Sean Hayes]

This is how we love. And also. But if I didn't make jokes or laugh about. I cried for three years straight about my mom having Alzheimer's. She's passed away since then. But I cried and cried and cried and tried to take care of her. And every one of our family members tried to care. And then after a while, you're just. You have to have some levity.

[Jason Bateman]

So.

[Sean Hayes]

So anyway, one time she was at this. This memory care place, and there was a band there. There's a live band. And I was sitting with Scotty and his mom and we.

[Will Arnett]

What a gig.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

And.

[Jason Bateman]

Was one of the top bands.

[Will Arnett]

A bunch of people who won't remember you. They're like, should we play some of the old hits? Doesn't matter. They don't know. It's new to them. Everything's new to them. You could play a Beatles song and just say, we just wrote this.

[Jason Bateman]

That's what I said.

[Sean Hayes]

That's what I'm saying. That's why you have to make light of it, because otherwise you'll die crying. Okay, so.

[Will Arnett]

So anyway, this one, Satisfaction.

[Sean Hayes]

I just.

[Will Arnett]

Wrote it in the car, the way here.

[Sean Hayes]

So we're sitting there, and my. I'm sitting with Scotty and Scotty's mom, and all of a sudden, Scotty's mom, who's one of the sweetest people in the world, she gets up and starts dancing. She says to my mom, mary. She's like, mary, come on and dance. And she's like, yeah. And she's like, she's gonna get up and down. She tries to grab me, and she goes, sean, come on, let's dance. I go, mom, I don't want to dance. There's all these people watching in this room, and there's a dance floor, and I'm like, no, Mom, I don't want to watch. She goes, come on, let's dance. I go, no, Mom, I don't want. She goes, don't be such a p. And I was like, what? She would have never said that.

[Will Arnett]

Did you die laughing, though?

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, my God. I laughed.

[Julia Roberts]

Did you dance with her?

[Sean Hayes]

No, I was too embarrassed. I know. I wish I could now. Blah, blah, blah. So anyway. No, she was sweet, though.

[Will Arnett]

But anyway, you and Tracy must have laughed that one over the years.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, God. So my whole family, we obviously loved her so much. But anyway, so this is a good one. I wrote down because somebody asked me to see. If you had to marry. This is for everybody, Julia. If you had to marry a woman. Guys, if you had to marry a guy, me. If I had to marry a woman, who would it be? Mine would be Carrie or Raina or Allie or Jen or Amanda. I would marry Jason's wife. Amanda, if you had to marry a girl.

[Julia Roberts]

That's a lot of people. And I didn't even, like, make the top ten.

[Will Arnett]

And.

[Sean Hayes]

Hang on. I'm not done. Julia.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Okay.

[Sean Hayes]

There you go.

[Julia Roberts]

I would MARRY Either Frances McDormand or Cate Blanchett or. Oh, nice, Emma Thompson.

[Sean Hayes]

Nice.

[Jason Bateman]

Wow.

[Sean Hayes]

Those are good answers.

[Jason Bateman]

Those are pretty good.

[Julia Roberts]

There's more, but I'm limiting myself to three.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah. Guys.

[Jason Bateman]

You had to marry a guy. I would marry one of these two guys because of the formula you were talking about before, which is you gotta marry a friend if you wanted to laugh last.

[Sean Hayes]

That's right.

[Jason Bateman]

I've always. I've always thought. And so far, I'm right. Because I. I do. I do really like that. Amanda.

[Will Arnett]

I'd marry. I. I'd. Same thing. I'd marry one of these two guys. Because they're guys that. That I love and that I like. And Jason, we'd be able to share golf clubs. And because we have, like, I. I tried his wedge the other day. Is great. And also, Jason, because I'd love to marry a known bottom.

[Jason Bateman]

And then you don't want to have to do any fighting. Right. No negotiating.

[Will Arnett]

Right. And no. I truly, truly, I would be one of these two guys. I love these guys so much.

[Sean Hayes]

And I love you guys, too.

[Jason Bateman]

I want to hear about your new. Your new thingy.

[Sean Hayes]

So I just watched it last night. I want. I couldn't watch it.

[Jason Bateman]

They're locked. They're locked, Sean. So watch them.

[Sean Hayes]

I loved it so much. After the Hunt. It's called after the Hunt. I just watched it last night. What an awesome, dark, complicated character you're playing. As always, I believed every moment, every word coming out of your mouth.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, you were.

[Sean Hayes]

And it was crafted in such a way that reminded me of. And now after the Hunt will be on that list. Doubt. What's the other one? Like, Conclave. After the Hunt. Like, they're all kind of brilliantly made, brilliantly performed. Your performance was incredible. And the end, I was like. Cause the whole time, I'm like, what's going on? What is happening? And then the reveal was so cool. I mean, crazy, but cool.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Anyway, thanks for coming.

[Will Arnett]

Love to hear a question.

[Jason Bateman]

I'm so proud of it. It sounds like. It sounds like a pretty high level.

[Sean Hayes]

What drew you to the material?

[Julia Roberts]

Luca Guadagnino, who is just. He is.

[Sean Hayes]

He did call me by your name. I mean, tons of great movies.

[Julia Roberts]

He is so wonderful as a person and. And so innovative and the most curious person I've ever met. He's so curious about people and why we do the things we do and why we don't do things, and just every detail of every. Everything he is. There's nothing that you're seeing that hasn't been specifically chosen in this shade of color. And this statue and this painting being slightly askew or, you know, whatever. I mean, it's just really. It's so.

[Sean Hayes]

There's a really cool moment, too, when you guys. You and. Oh, forgive me. Aya. Right.

[Julia Roberts]

IO, IO debris.

[Sean Hayes]

So sorry. So when you and IO are. It's kind of towards the end, and you have this incredible scene outside of this building, and it starts as, like, regular over the shoulder, and then it just cuts to you guys looking right into the can. I love that. It was so effective. As you're finishing this argument, just right into the camera, cutting Back and forth directly. It was really cool.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, I can't wait, by the way.

[Sean Hayes]

Six minutes standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

Wow. Really?

[Julia Roberts]

People tried to sit down. I was like, oh, no, no, no, silly. Don't be rude.

[Sean Hayes]

I just loved it.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah. Oh, I'm glad. Thank you. I'm glad you got to see it.

[Jason Bateman]

Yes, it is.

[Julia Roberts]

Luca just texted me how crazy.

[Sean Hayes]

Wow.

[Jason Bateman]

Crazy wow. Tell him he's doing well.

[Julia Roberts]

He must have felt us talking about, is it.

[Jason Bateman]

Is it nice to launch a film at a. At a festival like that, as opposed to just sort of a standard kind of release where it just kind of comes out?

[Julia Roberts]

I've never really had an experience like this before, so it's nice to do new things, you know, especially this.

[Will Arnett]

What do you mean? What do you mean you haven't had an experience?

[Julia Roberts]

Well, I mean, I've never been to the Venice Film Festival, for one. And, I mean, I guess George and I went to Cannes a few years ago, but that was the first time I'd ever been to Cannes.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, wow.

[Julia Roberts]

Because on television, they all look so terrifying. Like, why would you want to put yourself there?

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, I agree.

[Julia Roberts]

So if people say, oh, do you want to go to Cannes? No, thank you.

[Jason Bateman]

Off season.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah. It just looks so terrifying, people screaming and.

[Jason Bateman]

But what about all the glam and festivities of it all? Is that appealing just in the slightest? Playing dress up and all that stuff?

[Julia Roberts]

Once you say yes, like, once you commit to it, then you have to have a sporting event mentality about it. You have to. You're gonna have a great time. Danny had on a tuxedo. I was just. It was great. That. That part was great.

[Sean Hayes]

One final question before we let you go, because we've taken up way too much of your time. What is the coolest or weirdest or amazing piece of memorabilia from any film? Have you kept anything that you love?

[Jason Bateman]

That's a good question.

[Julia Roberts]

That is a good question.

[Sean Hayes]

Because there are also. There's so many iconic films.

[Will Arnett]

I try not Contaminated soil from Erin.

[Julia Roberts]

Brockovich, surely, but no water samples. No.

[Will Arnett]

Okay.

[Julia Roberts]

But I haven't done anything cool like a.

[Sean Hayes]

Or a costume or, like a shirt or anything.

[Julia Roberts]

I have a lot of costumes. I have a lot of costumes. And somewhere, I actually think I have some wedding dresses from Runaway Bride.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, wow.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Do you have a place you keep them? I mean, like, a. Separate from your house?

[Julia Roberts]

Probably dangerously. Just in the garage in New Mexico. And maybe there's just generations of mice that have made homes now that they're trying it On. They're each trying it on boxes. Yeah, but not really. More like, I have a beautiful drawing that Meryl Streep did for me of my character that she gave me as a wrap gift from August Osage County.

[Sean Hayes]

Like, I. Oh, I love that movie.

[Jason Bateman]

That movie's so good.

[Julia Roberts]

Some things like that.

[Jason Bateman]

That. What a cat.

[Sean Hayes]

George, eat your fish.

[Julia Roberts]

That movie? Yeah, Eat your fish, bitch. George Clooney produced that movie.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, yeah, that's great. Yeah, it's very good.

[Sean Hayes]

Okay, so it premieres. So it's called after the Hunt. It premieres. Wait, select theaters October 10th and wider October 17th. It's so good. I mean, I just loved it. I loved it so much.

[Julia Roberts]

Thank you.

[Jason Bateman]

Julia, you're the greatest.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Julia Roberts]

You guys are so fun. I. Honestly, this has just zipped by and I.

[Jason Bateman]

It was quick, right?

[Julia Roberts]

I just want. I wanted to chance to do it again and. And be quick and witty and. And more.

[Jason Bateman]

You are sublime.

[Sean Hayes]

More.

[Julia Roberts]

One of the. One of the dudes.

[Jason Bateman]

You are. You are. You are amazing. Come back anytime you want.

[Julia Roberts]

Can we just talk about the microphone that Will Arnett has in his apartment? Yeah, what is up with that?

[Sean Hayes]

It's nice.

[Jason Bateman]

It's.

[Will Arnett]

It's janky. Right now I'm in a very. I'm in a makeshift situation because I just moved in here yesterday.

[Jason Bateman]

Yo, let's. The whisper booth all set up, huh?

[Will Arnett]

I know, I know, I know. It's. It's not great. The Internet's not great. I got the windows open because the AC is broken. I got a guy here.

[Jason Bateman]

You got a real. You got a vital VO career.

[Will Arnett]

You don't.

[Julia Roberts]

We get to see.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh.

[Julia Roberts]

Oh, those chairs are nice chairs. Do we get to see your. Your guest star?

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. Where's your babe? Yeah, let's pull your babe in real quick.

[Will Arnett]

She just went out. She just went out.

[Julia Roberts]

Oh, sure. Just left.

[Jason Bateman]

I think it's all fake. I think. What? You guys. Yeah, it's like a. It's a fake media story. No, we're thrilled for you.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, we are thrilled. Julia, thank you. You're incredible.

[Jason Bateman]

Thank you for saying yes. Tonight.

[Will Arnett]

We're talking about a thrill.

[Jason Bateman]

Come back anytime you want.

[Julia Roberts]

Mrs. Oh, thanks. Thank you.

[Jason Bateman]

Say hi to Danny.

[Will Arnett]

It goes without saying, I've been such a fan of yours for so long. You're so great at what you do.

[Sean Hayes]

Yes.

[Jason Bateman]

Thank you, truly.

[Julia Roberts]

Thank you. And can I just say. And sorry to leave you out, Sean, because I am your. And I appreciate you so much. That's okay.

[Sean Hayes]

Likewise.

[Julia Roberts]

But Arrested Development. Danny and I ate that show up like ice cream. And I'm happy to report that our youngest son, who's 18, just started college episode one pilot. We just started all over again. Me and him together. We are, wait, loving it.

[Jason Bateman]

Can you invite me over? Cause I haven't seen them since then, and I want to watch them all again. And my kids won't watch anything I do.

[Julia Roberts]

Come over. We'll go back. We will back this right up.

[Will Arnett]

Jason and I haven't watched. We used to watch when it first came on the air. I'd come over Sundays. We'd watch football together and we'd watch the episodes as it aired, we were like, wow, this is so crazy.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. And then we'd wake up in the morning and we'd call in for the overnights.

[Julia Roberts]

It is waiting to be canceled. How much is going on all the time is. It's extraordinary. It is.

[Will Arnett]

Well, you know Mitch Hurwitz, Julia. I know you know Mitch a little bit.

[Julia Roberts]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

And spoke to for the first time in a few months two days ago, out of the blue.

[Sean Hayes]

How's he doing?

[Will Arnett]

He's doing okay. Yeah. He, you know, he's the funniest guy. Immediately you start texting with him, and he's the funniest person of all time.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, agree.

[Julia Roberts]

I mean, that show really is one in a million.

[Jason Bateman]

Sean's going to catch it one of these days. We're going to get some tapes, Sean.

[Will Arnett]

We'Re going to make him watch it Clockwork Orange style.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. Well, thank you, Julia, for being with us today. Enjoy the rest of your day and good luck. Luck with the film. After the Hunt.

[Will Arnett]

Can't wait.

[Jason Bateman]

Coming in October, after the hunt.

[Will Arnett]

October 10th.

[Julia Roberts]

October 10th. Wide. October 17th. My birthday. October 28th.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, great.

[Jason Bateman]

That's my elder. That's. That's Franny's birthday. My eldest.

[Julia Roberts]

October, it's the.

[Jason Bateman]

It's a great day.

[Julia Roberts]

It's the big month now.

[Will Arnett]

Three days after my son Archie and Wendell Clark's birthday. Okay. It doesn't matter.

[Sean Hayes]

Like, it's like three and a half months and a week. Couple weeks after mine anyway, so.

[Will Arnett]

I.

[Sean Hayes]

Love you to pieces. Thank you for being here.

[Julia Roberts]

Lots of love, you guys. Thank you.

[Jason Bateman]

You, too. Bye. Bye.

[Will Arnett]

Wow, Sean, isn't she great?

[Sean Hayes]

I love. By the way, sir, for so long she's been on my list for. So I'm sure she's on top of our list.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. Of every list.

[Sean Hayes]

I know.

[Jason Bateman]

Name the list. She's at the top.

[Sean Hayes]

I was iconic. I was looking at her list of credits, and you're just like, bang. Bang, bang, bang. One big movie after another.

[Jason Bateman]

Other.

[Sean Hayes]

It's just.

[Jason Bateman]

Even has even taken pauses, you know, as she. She's. She's elected to take pauses, and the industry just. Just keeps her place in line. And she comes back in, and she's just. Bang. Another incredible director she works with.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

You know, it's. It's an incredible career.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah. And that movie's really good.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, that's.

[Will Arnett]

I can't wait to see that movie.

[Jason Bateman]

It's not. It's not a. It's not in the English countryside chasing foxes on horses. Right.

[Sean Hayes]

No, this is. This is not. None of that's happening.

[Will Arnett]

It's not about a salon after the hunt, where everybody's sitting in the drawing room talking about the hunt.

[Jason Bateman]

Wonderful shot back there, James.

[Will Arnett]

What a hunt we had, eh?

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, that tricky little fox.

[Will Arnett]

Tricky little fox.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah. What else can you say? She's. You know, I was gonna talk. Ask her about being called America's sweetheart, because she's been called that for her whole life, and what that means, like, if she hates that anymore. You know, it's like. It's true.

[Will Arnett]

Everybody.

[Sean Hayes]

Everybody. There's nobody that doesn't love her.

[Jason Bateman]

Right. But it's also like, you can. You can hate it, but, like, it is something maybe you could look back on when you're, you know, lying on the bed, taking your last 25 breaths and going like, that was pretty cool that I held that title, you know?

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah. I mean, for so long.

[Jason Bateman]

She's awesome.

[Sean Hayes]

And there's other friends of ours that has that title as well.

[Jason Bateman]

There are those that share it.

[Sean Hayes]

I share it.

[Jason Bateman]

Well, hang on.

[Sean Hayes]

So many people.

[Jason Bateman]

I don't know.

[Will Arnett]

Who'S thinking of a buy.

[Jason Bateman]

Yo. I know, Will. You're googling something. Well, let's see what you found, Zoa.

[Will Arnett]

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