13 Actors' Favourite Movies You'd Never Expect
4. There Will Be Blood - Jason Bateman
The Film: Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-winning masterpiece, about an ambitious oil man (Daniel Day Lewis) whose quest for wealth will see him stop at nothing.
Why You'd Never Expect It: Jason Bateman's filmography has seen him star almost exclusively in comedies and comic dramas, with a few rare exceptions (last year's superb thriller The Gift being one), and so it's hard to imagine him loving something so ridiculously dark and serious.
Bateman in fact said that he used the film as an influence when directing his own debut, Bad Words, and even though the two films are nothing alike, this least suggests that Bateman's ambitions lie beyond merely watching the same sort of movies he performs in. Even so, Bateman's stature as a super-likable funnyman makes this one quite difficult to reconcile.