Jason Bateman appears on the cover of Details magazine where the caption reads ‘Not all Former Child Stars are Felons’.  That’s catchy.  He may not have been a felon, but he was on the wild side revealing that life in the 90’s was like Tom Cruise’s character in Risky Business:

“My life was like ‘Risky Business’. 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.”

But an ultimatum by his lucky wife helped him to clean up his act:

“Booze was what would make me want to stay out all night and do some blow or smoke a joint or whatever, so shutting that off was key. “It’s like ketchup and French fries – I don’t want one without the other.  Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?”
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His ‘The Baster’ co-star Jennifer Aniston, who has known him for a long time says of Jason:

“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.”

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