Jason Bateman's Arrested Development is in the Details

By April MacIntyre Jul 8, 2009, 14:17 GMT

Bateman. Photo credit: Norman Jean Roy for DETAILS

Child star Jason Bateman has taken his early success in acting, survived the usual pitfalls of fame, and finally, at age 40, found his second act groove.

Bateman spoke to Details magazine about his upcoming films— including The Baster, opposite Jennifer Aniston

The former star of the popular cultie smallscreen series, "Arrested Development" which died on FOX, promises to live in film.

"We're gonna make the movie," Bateman tells Details. "Mitch Hurwitz is just starting to write it. It'll be out in a year and a half."

"Baster" co star Jennifer Aniston had praise for Bateman's acting chops. "He should be here, he's meant to be here, and for whatever reason, it's taken until now."

Aniston, according to Details, met Bateman 15 years ago on a group ski trip to Aspen. "There's no bullshit with him," she says. "Even though he was pretty wild in those days, something about those dimples and that sweet face made you go, 'Oh, it's okay that you just drove up the street backwards in a Range Rover with the door wide open.' I don't know what was happening there. You feel instantly safe in his company."

Bateman shared that the nineties were a troubled decade for him. "It was like Risky Business for 10 years," Bateman tells Details. "My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home. I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well."

"Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady—a normal, routine environment. When that went away and I didn't have that infrastructure, I had to start over."

Read more about Bateman's career trajectory in the new Details, LINK, out in August.