![]() ![]() He is utterly lacking in preciousness, which is not something that can be said about many in the acting profession, and despite having been in the entertainment business for nearly his entire life, Bateman is astonishingly lacking in self-promotional tendencies. Funny nice, the kind that comes with a pleasing undercurrent of naughtiness. I mean, nice the way your fantasy older brother is nice. I don’t mean nice in the “Aw shucks, little ol’ me?” hokey Tom Hanks kind of nice. ![]() It is a mystery as baffling as what Dorian Grey-like bargain Bateman, 45, struck to maintain such lustrous hair (seriously, it puts Kate Middleton’s to shame) that a man who has been acting since the age of 13 (in US sitcoms Silver Spoons and Valerie), who was, by his own admission, a “cut-up” in his 20s with a taste for alcohol and drugs, but is now, via some classy supporting roles ( Juno, Up in the Air), a bona-fide comedy leading man ( Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief) can be so darned nice. He was, but nowhere near as fun as Bateman. Of course, he quickly adds, he loves Cera: “Such a great sense of humour, so subtle, even when he was 14. Like most of the characters he has played, Bateman can get away with saying terrible things but still be incredibly likable. In person, Bateman has the pleasing facial symmetry of a catalogue model and he delivers this damning verdict of Cera in the same nonchalant tone with which he talks about his current uncharacteristically swishy hair (“It’s ridiculous now I look like a Bee Gee”) and his memories of working as a child actor in advertisements for Honey Nut Cheerios (“Ahh, I still remember having to follow that fake little bee around with my eyes …”). “Well, he’s a fucking dickhead, isn’t he?” the filth-monster himself responds when I tell him of his onscreen son’s verdict. “Just pure … filth,” Cera said, turning an even more alarming shade of pale. ![]()
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