Jason Bateman lately gave his 14-year-old daughter, Maple, a crash course within the birds and the bees.
“I did simply discuss to Maple about intercourse, as a matter of reality, a couple of yr in the past,” Bateman, 57, mentioned on the Thursday, February 26, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Stay!, referring to his youngest little one with spouse Amanda Anka. “I wished to verify she was getting [a full education]. She’s in a extra conventional college.”
Whereas Bateman “didn’t need to inform her something that [he] didn’t have to,” he requested whether or not she had any questions on the subject of intercourse.
“I believe, perhaps, she sensed that this was an uncomfortable space for me, so she performed dumb,” the Ozark alum recalled. “She’s, like, ‘I’m not constructive on a bunch of stuff. Do you could have any?’ She type of baited me now that I give it some thought.”
Bateman subsequently “walked [Maple] by way of the steps.”
“[I] stored ready for her to chop me off, like, ‘I received this half,’ and she or he didn’t for essentially the most half,” he mentioned on Thursday’s broadcast. “I did discover myself attending to the portion of … when the discharge occurs, which is a needed part. You don’t need to be saying the phrase ‘ejaculate’ to your daughter, proper? That’s not an awesome time period.”
As a substitute, Bateman mentioned that, “When the male member is inside the lady’s member, it’s so pretty there [and] there may be a lot love. To keep away from that time period, I [used the phrase], ‘The penis simply screams,’ and it’s the equal of the penis simply yelling, ‘I really like you.’”
Bateman additional defined that the obvious scream is “yelled into the lady,” which is how two folks make a child.
Bateman grew to become a father in 2006 when he and Anka, 57, welcomed daughter Francesca, 19, in 2006. Maple adopted in 2012.
“The 20s had been rather a lot, after which in my early 30s, I ended consuming [and] married my girlfriend, who’s nonetheless my spouse, and received Arrested Improvement,” Bateman informed Esquire in December 2025 of turning into a dad. “It was all type of proper in that 12 [or] 24 months. There at all times was a plan. The three issues I at all times mentioned I wished to do, once I was a child … was to be a father, a husband and direct a film.”
The “SmartLess” podcast cohost determined to give up consuming when he landed his famed Arrested Improvement function as a method to be a greater partner to Anka.
“I used to be actually getting numerous that stuff out of my system, figuring out that at 30 might be concerning the time you bought to get your s*** collectively and begin to execute the plan,” he informed the outlet. “Any individual informed me that your lungs cease reproducing new cells after 30, so I ended smoking too. Like, now’s the time to do it.”
The following month, Bateman admitted that getting sober additionally eased “tensions” with Anka.
“Amanda and I undoubtedly had a number of negotiations concerning the level at which the [partying] spigot was going to utterly flip off,” he informed The Hollywood Reporter in January. “She’d be like, ‘This drip, drip, drip is annoyingly unpredictable, Jason.’”
In case you or somebody you recognize is combating substance abuse, contact the Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Companies Administration (SAMHSA) Nationwide Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).


