Little House on the Prärie Alum Jason Bateman says ‘everyone loves’ Michael Landon

• Jason Bateman remembered his time as a child actor Small house in the prairie As James Cooper Ingalls in a new episode of the Conan O’Brien needs a friend Podcast
• Bateman compared Small house Star, director and producer Michael Landon by George Clooney
• The actor said

Jason Bateman remembers his earliest inspiration: Michael Landon.

In the episode of Siriusxm from February 24th Conan O’Brien needs a friend Podcast, Bateman, 56, remembered how his time of Small house of prairie – And saw star, director and executive producer Michael Landon on the set – triggered his wish to become a director.

Bateman began to act in commercials for the first time as a child Small house In the seventh and eighth season of the show. James was a little boy who was friends with the Ingalls family. He and his sister Cassandra (Missy Francis) lost their parents in a carriage accident and were finally adopted by Landon and Karen Grassles Pa and Magalls.

“I really started to notice what this magic trick is of a fake life,” said Bateman about his childhood on the set. “We all look through the paperback pipe when you are a child … and outside of this tunnel, it is things that you cannot see, the microphone and the light and all the stuff. And so this tube must be flawless. ”

He began to observe how people on the set made this “wrong” life. “Michael Landon was the director, executive producer, star, writer. Everyone loved him, ”said Bateman.

“George Clooney would be the perfect comparison today” Zootopia Star continued. “His ease with people, with the process, with the business, with only Joe on the street. Women are crazy about him. Guys want to be his buddy. ”

“They watch how he juggles all these balls and this leader and presence on the set is and is friendly with people, but also a kind of strict boss when he has to, that was pretty inspiring” Ozark Said Star. Before Small houseLandon appeared in the hit series Golden pit And became a massive star. O’Brien, 61, said to Bateman: “I can’t believe that they knew him at all.”

Bateman described his father, producer Kent Bateman, also to expose him Art House films and to teach him that “what is directed and what the acting is and what is good and what is good”.

“It planted the seed,” said Bateman. “I always have a kind of tracking (directed) and wanted to do it and I paid attention to every set I was afterwards Small house. “”

Bateman continued to play in the sitcom The Hogan familywhere he also got his first directorial loan. He continued to appear on sitcoms, including Simon And George and LeoBut at the end of the nineties, he concentrated the television as the next phase of his career.

“I wanted my story to do sitcoms in a positive instead of the negative I was at the time and maybe let all this experience hire me as a director,” he said. But in the middle of this career layer it was occupied in Arrested development. He directed this series and directed episodes of episodes of Ozark and his upcoming series Black rabbit.

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Melissa Gilbert, who played in the leading role Small house in the prairie As Laura, who had people in 2024 about the effects on their lives.

“Michael was the quarterback, wasn’t it? So he gave the tone what we did, ”she said of the star who died in 1991 after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “Mine was unique in that I was the only actor who regularly socialized with him and his family.” She said her families collapsed the spring and she went to the same school as his children.

“The show itself is just so special and wonderful,” added, “but also because it is my childhood and that my substitute family is. I have this wonderfully sophisticated” home films “with many people who no longer are, and I can visit them again when I look at a repetition destruction Small house. “”