Jason Bateman recently gave his 14-year-old daughter, Maple, a crash course in the birds and the bees.
“I did just talk to Maple about sex, as a matter of fact, about a year ago,” Bateman, 57, said on the Thursday, February 26, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, referring to his youngest child with wife Amanda Anka. “I wanted to make sure she was getting [a full education]. She’s in a more traditional school.”
While Bateman “didn’t want to tell her anything that [he] didn’t need to,” he asked whether she had any questions on the topic of sex.
“I think, maybe, she sensed that this was an uncomfortable area for me, so she played dumb,” the Ozark alum recalled. “She’s, like, ‘I’m not positive on a bunch of stuff. Do you have any?’ She kind of baited me now that I think about it.”
Jason Bateman and his wife, Amanda Anka, knew each other for a decade before they started dating — and they say their long friendship is one of the reasons their romance has lasted. The duo met in the mid-1980s when they were both just 18 years old, but they didn’t start dating for another 10 […]
Bateman subsequently “walked [Maple] through the steps.”
“[I] kept waiting for her to cut me off, like, ‘I got this part,’ and she didn’t for the most part,” he said on Thursday’s broadcast. “I did find myself getting to the portion of … when the release happens, which is a necessary component. You don’t want to be saying the word ‘ejaculate’ to your daughter, right? That’s not a great term.”
Instead, Bateman said that, “When the male member is inside of the woman’s member, it’s so lovely there [and] there is so much love. To avoid that term, I [used the phrase], ‘The penis just screams,’ and it’s the equivalent of the penis just yelling, ‘I love you.’”
Bateman further explained that the apparent scream is “yelled into the woman,” which is how two people make a baby.
Bateman became a father in 2006 when he and Anka, 57, welcomed daughter Francesca, 19, in 2006. Maple followed in 2012.
“The 20s were a lot, and then in my early 30s, I stopped drinking [and] married my girlfriend, who’s still my wife, and got Arrested Development,” Bateman told Esquire in December 2025 of becoming a dad. “It was all kind of right in that 12 [or] 24 months. There always was a plan. The three things I always said I wanted to do, when I was a kid … was to be a father, a husband and direct a movie.”
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The “SmartLess” podcast cohost decided to quit drinking when he landed his famed Arrested Development role as a way to be a better spouse to Anka.
“I was really getting a lot of that stuff out of my system, knowing that at 30 is probably about the time you got to get your s*** together and start to execute the plan,” he told the outlet. “Somebody told me that your lungs stop reproducing new cells after 30, so I stopped smoking too. Like, now’s the time to do it.”
The next month, Bateman admitted that getting sober also eased “tensions” with Anka.
“Amanda and I definitely had a few negotiations about the point at which the [partying] spigot was going to completely turn off,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in January. “She’d be like, ‘This drip, drip, drip is annoyingly unpredictable, Jason.’”
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