Jason Bateman Shares Tips for Aspiring Actors and Directors
'Ozark's Jason Bateman shares his thoughts on acting and directing.
Jason Bateman has transcended from minor roles to leading major feature films. Now the actor is in the business of directing with the third season of his hit Netflix series ‘Ozark’, which is now filming in Georgia. The actor currently stars on the Netflix series ‘Ozark’ and plays a disgraced accountant who is over his head with a criminal enterprise. In an interview with Gold Derby, Bateman discussed working on the show as a lead actor and a director of several episodes and working with his co-stars as an actor and director. Bateman explains how actors need to be careful with changing their characters too much over the course of a show because the character can never be smart enough to lead to a resolution. He explains, “The challenge with making characters smart is that things come to an end. It’s a trap in comedies. It’s also a trap in dramas. In comedies, if you get a character that gets smart, they stop making fools of themselves and pulling their pants down and losing their dignity and making dumb decisions. The same thing goes for dramas. As soon as you get smart, you call the police and the movie’s over.” Bateman has a long history with comedic timing and comedic roles. He often plays the straight man, which can be seen in ‘Arrested Development,’ ‘Horrible Bosses,’ and ‘Game Night.’ When asked why he chooses these roles, he says, “I’m always attracted to playing a normal person that is in the middle of something that is pretty abnormal and try to become that perspective for the audience, that proxy for the audience so that what you’re witnessing is as relatable as possible.”
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