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Jason Bateman: The comeback kid |
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Written by Lance Brown
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
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The comeback kid Jason Bateman spent a decade making flop TV shows and battling with drink before turning in an award-winning lead performance in cult sitcom Arrested Development. Now the former child star is back on top with a string of movie roles. Andrew Purcell meets him
Wednesday December 19, 2007
The Guardian
America's pop cultural landscape is littered with former child stars who have been permanently damaged by the experience of being too famous, too soon. Michael Jackson, Britney Spears and Macaulay Culkin are the most visible cautionary tales but there are enough C-list burn-outs to warrant their own support group. A Minor Consideration was founded by Paul Petersen, one of the original Mouseketeers in the Mickey Mouse Club, to offer counselling and legal advice, following three child actor suicides in quick succession. Post-celebrity purgatory is the rule, but a select group of young performers have escaped the circle of litigation and addiction. Drew Barrymore, Ron Howard, Sarah Jessica Parker and Justin Timberlake have all reinvented themselves so successfully that growing up on camera is now just an amusing prologue to their adult careers. After starring in five major films this year, Jason Bateman has finally joined them. Continued...
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