Jason Bateman on Jimmy’s Love of the 80s, New Movie Air & Duping the Kimmels into Owning a Gecko

our first guest tonight is an Emmy and sag award-winning actor and director who's been entertaining us since there were little houses on the Prairie his new movie directed by Ben Affleck is called air it opens in theaters one week from today please welcome Jason Bateman [Applause] wow what a role you are on Jason Bateman I mean Fresh Off winning all the awards during Awards season you come out with olive movie come on air you pop in there people are talking about Ben Affleck and that other guy and then there's you stealing the show right in the middle of this movie oh man what must it be like to be you besides that um haircut from the 80s that you still have that's a big laugh it's an offensively big laugh this whole pigeon Wing over here I've got to get rid of right because the movie's over I think I kept it for possible reshoots you did but now it's released and so I can cut it I see yeah yeah unless you're shooting the sequel now when we don't know about it my wife Amanda won't sleep with me with short hair so I've got is that true she prefers long hair she does how long does she want it uh well anything that makes me look a little bit less like the Jason Bateman she knows she's looking for Teen Wolf too Jason baby I know she wants to grow my nails out oh anyway I still miss the magic elevator can we bring that back yes the uh yes the elevator you're obsessed with it was a pretend elevator wasn't it or carpeted or something what brainstorm let's talk about your projects because you are the Star right now we are focused on you you are this movie by the way I told Ben Affleck it's you know you know I especially love it because it is a love letter to the 80s it is so 80s from the music and the just everything about it you'll love the I should love the 80s because I I was I was doing very well in the 80s and so like all of this Jimmy I'm sure you were about to say I'm sorry to cut you no no I do I love it yeah like in an unhealthy way he just thinks it's the greatest music decade I mean like you know right this is totally wrong it's just like oh yeah he loves it yeah yeah no the 80s was not was not you know and I I could you couldn't possibly match anyone who has my musical taste more similarly okay so what were you two doing that was so great in the 80s where all that music just brings back the Glory Days what were you guys crushing in the 80s I don't know we weren't doing coke like you yeah we were drinking we were drinking New Coke is what we were Bruce Springsteen Madonna Lionel Richie Prince YouTube Van Halen Metallica I mean birth of hip-hop every hip hop the music started there fun but it wasn't like there's reverence with you with this decade that's right what is Yacht Rock on your oh yeah absolutely all the time right all the time yeah absolutely gonna jump out the window one day on the 405. this is such a betrayal to the decade that built that made Jason Bateman this is like a Pac-Man came out and said through the 80s I'm not eating those pellets anymore wait a second am I the Screen Actors Guild Pac-Man no no no I think that's right you're more like Hubert you're more of a Cuban that's a nastiest thing you've ever said to me by the way I was fantastic at Cuba yeah were you really I was no I wasn't I wasn't better than than the games that we had on Silver Spoons I mean Ricky and I had Pac-Man Dragon's Lair centipede and uh uh uh missile or uh anyway one of them we just we we rocked it we because you know you could play it for free all the time it came too easy to you that's what your problem with the 80s is we had to put quarters quarters and quarters you were in a Pac-Man tournament tournament and placed very well you did against like regular players yeah it was a celebrity celebrities in it too just like me uh I think people sponsored it I had a little Pac-Man trophy I'm like oh God the 80s were horrible no this movie is proof that they weren't in fact I believe we have the one-time thing that came out of it you dabbled in Michael Jordan um paraphernalia was um right here there you go I mean how is that not in the show in the movie by the way more muscles in that picture than I currently have what was which which of the many gems from the 80s is that from well I got the way my forearms are bigger than my biceps you know it's just a perspective it's terrible um so that that is the opening uh credits to Valerie or the Hogan family or whatever oh wow yeah you'll see that's one of the things I love yeah and so yeah so that's the Bulls that's uh that's did you shave your armpits then to look more like a boy I was on swim team you worked yeah there's no hair anywhere um and that was that was a piece did they give you Jordans to forever as part of the movie was that part of the deal and you would think because I realized from doing this film that I've never had a pair of Jordans I've worn Nikes my whole life but I never for some reason never bought a pair of Jordans um and I thought that maybe you know oftentimes when you're done with the project the the director will usually give a gift to the cast and the crew and it'll be somehow theme tied into the film itself I thought for sure because we can make our own Nikes online right Nike uh I thought well Ben's gonna do it I made a shoe for Ozark I made I made a Converse high top with all the symbols from Ozark from the opening titles I put those all over the shoe game paid for it myself Ben could have gone to Nike for free and gotten everybody a pair of Jordans that were just for the cast just for the crew would have been like a real exclusive thing that would have yeah nothing what did he do did he do anything like um um uh pirate booty I think everyone got a bag everybody got a bag of pirates so nothing there and then um and then I saw him no sneakers that your cats loved the sneakers huh yeah we like the sneaker oh yeah somebody's selling the sneakers that you gave them on the uh there it is yeah that's real we didn't make this up Jason Bateman rap gift for the fourth final season of the Netflix show Ozark that's a fake look it's not a fake and um figure out who you gave a size 11 to and narrow it down 550 bucks that's pretty small yeah meanwhile you got Pirates Booty yeah no that's um damn it you think that's too low I think that's low there's only what a hundred some pairs of those yeah sorry terrible yeah but I don't know why come on there I don't know why either feeling great you know what let's do let's take a break let's start over again Studio we'll show a clip of your performance in the movie Jason Bateman is here the movie is called air hello hey where the hell are you North Carolina [Music] foreign what happened to a phone call I'm calling you now I'm in the car the rental car has a phone in it not me the parents it would have been unprofessional for me to just call them up right so just tell you to show up at the front door look if anybody back there has to where I am just tell them I'm sick you got it sick in the head that is Jason Bateman and another guy in the new movie air which opens in the theaters on April 5th are you like kids excited do they know about Michael Jordan and or is he a shoe to them my my 11 year old Maple she's a huge basketball fan so she thinks this is really cool finally dad has done something that she can be proud of all right she plays basketball yeah he loves basketball um uh Francesca who's 16 couldn't really care less about a basketball or well actually it's she's in she's into cool shoes like see I can't wear Jordans I don't think anymore why 54 years old I'd look like you know cool dad in you know Air Jordan I looked at uh maybe just getting the black on black pair but then right like a ref yeah um yeah right white on white I'm a male nurse so I can't I can't get like these fun colorful shoes it's it's over for me well maybe you wear those those are Converse around that would be cool when they cool you're like hey everybody remember the show I was on look at my shoes you know that would be fun if I can get a I can get a cheap pair online you know I wanted to thank you for a couple things you're welcome first of all I want to thank you for the other day when um our kids go to the same school I was crossing the street to get to the school and someone screamed out the window to me hey Jimmy you're great on the Oscars and I'm like hey and then it's him I felt bad though because you're crossing the street with your daughter and your wife just Clowning the guy out of the video yeah and then I want to thank you also because um so um your daughter and our families you know we were close we're friendly and there was a situation did you say past tense I said we're close we're friendly we're close no I didn't say we were close but let me tell the rest of the story I don't think you even know what story I'm gonna share it seems like it might be heavy it's a little bit it's not that happy but my wife tells me Hey listen uh your daughter Maple has a a lizard that she's very calm and my wife says Gekko bro it's not a Lizzy gecko uh my daughter Jane also thinks this is great this Gecko and my wife says we're going to watch the gecko for a week um for the batemans welcome okay great fine free for free well yeah sure of course and then we're headed over to your house to pick up the gecko we're gonna watch what should have been my first clue that something was wrong because generally when you're doing someone a favor they will bring the gecko to you also wait was that the way it was sold between Amanda and Molly that that you were doing us a favor you're you're gecko sitting 100 and that's not it I know I said to Molly on the drive all right so where are they going you know and she's like oh they're not going out of town we're doing Jay in a favor huh you got a dog was the story yes we did get a cute little puppy you got a puppy and your daughter was distracted by the new dog and so we were gonna watch the gecko while your daughter spent some quality time which okay great and I'm like okay great so when we get to your house house and your wife Amanda starts explaining the you know how to handle the get what to do to keep it alive you know and she says like here's the Cajun here's the water and here's the heat lamp and here's the Crickets there's like a jar of crickets and um you got to feed the Crickets to the gecko and whatever and then she says and this is where I became a little bit somewhat alarmed she said and if you guys go out of town this summer we'll be happy to watch and I thought why would you what do you mean you'd be happy this is your gecko yeah you'd be happy to watch your own gecko while we go out of town at this point you turn slowly to Molly I turn slowly to Molly but I held my tongue and I waited till we get in the car I'm like what have happened yeah and we are we are not gecko sitting we are now adopting a gecko and now I have a first of all crickets smell are you aware of that I didn't know that till Molly hit me with a with a link this morning yeah they don't they don't smell good and secondly I now like I went into my daughter's room just to check on her in the middle of night the other night and there's this big aquarium with a light on it I thought oh where one of those families whose child has a reptile yeah it's not great it's not great reptiles shouldn't be in the house they should be outside running from an exterminator yes you're totally right anyway I got you a present and um I think you're gonna love it it's it's the gecko yes yeah there he is he comes with a lot of crickets I hear you know if they get out then they start they say start uh squeaking around the house you know you gotta watch out that the Crickets don't get no I don't you have to watch out Jason Bateman everybody and Sonny air opens the dealers April 5th we'll be back with Ali Wong foreign [Applause]

Channel: Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Length: 13min 24sec (804 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 29 2023