Jason Bateman Responds to Backlash Over Comments to Charli XCX About Having Kids

Jason Bateman is responding to the backlash he faced over his line of questioning with Charli XCX.

If you don’t know, Charli was a guest on Jason‘s Smartless podcast with co-hosts Will Arnett and Sean Hayes.

The subject of having children came up, and Charli mentioned she did not want kids.

Jason started telling a story about how his own wife, Amanda Anka, supposedly didn’t want children before she met him. Now they have two daughters.

He suggests that she “might find somebody” who would change her mind, too.

To which Charli replied, “Well, I’m married.” She and her husband George Daniel held two weddings last year, one in London, and another in Italy.

This convo sparked some backlash from listeners when Jason said she might feel differently about kids after meeting a man who might change her mind.

He’s now responding.

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“We were having a great conversation about her life growing up as an only child. It seemed like a very natural follow-up to that. That’s all it was. I don’t really have much [else] to say about it, except that it is always interesting and valuable and educational to hear people’s thoughts, reactions and feelings to anything I say or do,” Jason told THR.