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 A film actor who wants as few lines as possible? "I'd like to pay my dues, and learn as much as I can," he says. It's all part of his goal of longevity. "I did so much television, to be able to leave on that high note, coupled with being invited to this new medium, why not? I'm graduating television and become a freshman in this new medium." Bateman's future plans include hopefully teaming up with his Smoking Aces director Joe Carnahan for another movie, and he's also recently signed onto the Brad Pitt-led political thriller State of Play. More immediately, he's currently working with Peter Berg again, shooting Hancock, in which Will Smith stars as a superhero. "I am a guy that Will Smith saves in the first ten pages of the film. And then to pay him back, I tell him I'm going to help him revamp his public image, because he's a persona non grata, and he's a drunk, and when he fights crime he creates a lot of collateral damage, because he's banging into buildings and landing on cars, so they don't like him. So as I'm teaching him how to fix his manners and be polite in press conferences, and get him in an outfit and cape, and everything, then he starts making moves on my wife, Charlize Theron, so there's this very dark, weird love triangle. It's very Pete Berg. But you know, it's this gigantic Sony movie, and I'm so fortunate to sort of have this great seat." Yes, it often seems as though he imagines himself being simply a spectator in the action movies that he's finding himself in. "I've really become kind of awed by these action movies. I saw Bourne Ultimatum the other day, and just felt bad that I was able to just drive away from that and say, 'boy, that was a great movie,' while these guys, the amount of work that goes into action sequences...I really feel like they can charge more, if they want. There's so much work that goes into it. And [with Hancock], there's flying, and special effects, and things are blowing up, and there's so much work." Working in movies hasn't caused him to forget about his friends from Arrested Development, though. It helps that his co-stars are finding plenty of success too -- ... |
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