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Considering how dysfunctional the Bluth family was on Arrested Development, it\u2019s considered a miracle that Jason Bateman<\/a> enjoys spending time with any family, real or on-screen. He told Esquire<\/a> in his cover profile that while he and his older sister, Family Ties actress Justine Bateman, don\u2019t \u201csee each other a ton,\u201d that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a bad thing. \u201cThere isn\u2019t the typical \u2018We see each other every Thanksgiving or every Christmas and our kids want to be together.\u2019 There isn\u2019t that. In a great way,\u201d he explained. \u201cOur conversations are the rich conversations you would have with an adult friend, not the kind of petulant back-and-forth you might have with your adult sibling.\u201d Justine also confirmed in September that there\u2019s no rift between her and her brother. \u201cAnyone bringing up my brother to me for any other reason than to say you like his new upcoming show, or any of his past work, will be muted at best, and blocked at worst,\u201d she wrote<\/a> on X. \u201cI\u2019m not interested in your fantasy about some imagined conflict between the two of us over your political ideologies. Really, it\u2019s sick.\u201d When Trump was elected again in November 2024, she posted<\/a> that she felt like she was \u201cDecompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.\u201d<\/p>\n The little time they do spend together doesn\u2019t mean it never happens; it might just not be around the holidays. Jason concludes, \u201cWe hang out, and we\u2019re nice to each other because we respect one another as individuals regardless of the blood thing. I\u2019m seeing her for lunch next week.\u201d Hopefully, they\u2019ll have chocolate bananas<\/a> for dessert.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo-Illustration: Illustration: Vulture, Images: Getty Images Considering how dysfunctional the Bluth family was on Arrested Development, it\u2019s considered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,480,134,187773,41984,187772,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-337180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-celebrity","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-family-ties","14":"tag-jason-bateman","15":"tag-justine-bateman","16":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}