Jason Bateman on Playing ‘Widely Different’ Characters in ‘Black Rabbit’ and ‘DTF St. Louis,’ and How Netflix Saved ‘Arrested Development’

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From playing a “super meek” weatherman in “DTF St. Louis” to his dark turn as a man battling substance abuse in “Black Rabbit,” no two roles Jason Bateman takes on are ever the same.

“It was really fortunate to be able to play two wildly different characters in the same year, and they both turned out really well,” Bateman tells Variety‘s executive TV editor Michael Schneider during the “FYSEE Unplugged: Jason Bateman Retrospective” conversation in partnership with Netflix. “That’s just not something you can really control all the time.”

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