Jason Bateman was “led” into an “uncomfortable” conversation with his youngest daughter about birds and bees.
the actor said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Viewers on Wednesday said that when Maple, 14, attended sex education at school last year, he asked her if she had any questions or if she had any updates.
“I didn’t want to say anything to her that didn’t need to be said,” the 58-year-old “Ozark” alum said.
Mr Bateman believes his daughter “played dumb” and pushed him into a painfully awkward conversation. She claimed, “I’m not positive about many things.”
The teenage girl gave Bateman the end of his dyslexia — and Bateman struggled to find the words to describe what he called “liberation.”
Calling “ejaculation” a “necessary element,” the “Arrested Development” alum explained to Maple that she refused to say that word.
Instead, he said, “When the male member gets inside the female member, it’s so nice. There’s so much love. … The penis just screams. And it’s like the penis just screams, ‘I love you!'” And it screams love to women, and you get you, baby. ”
Bateman “started sweating” just remembering the awkward moment.
Jimmy Kimmel sarcastically urged him to “write a children’s book” and quipped, “We’re going to mop up. … Guys, Jason Bateman can talk to kids if he needs to.”
Bateman has a 19-year-old daughter, Francesca, with Maple and his wife, Amanda Anka.
The couple married in July 2001.
The “Horrible Bosses” star made headlines earlier this month when he reflected on the “tension” in his relationship before getting sober in his 30s.
“[She]didn’t ask me for a full pardon, but it was kind of a back-and-forth,” he recalled in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, admitting that the 57-year-old anchor found his habits “annoyingly predictable.”
On Wednesday, Bateman poked fun at headlines that implied his sobriety was a recent decision.
“I didn’t know Bateman had problems,” he joked. “I didn’t know he was in pain. Thank God he got out of it!”
