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Jason Bateman and his spouse, Amanda Anka, enjoyed a rare evening out together, attending the premiere of his latest dark comedy, “DTF St. Louis.”
The couple, who have been married since 2001, appeared overjoyed as they posed for photographers on the red carpet at the DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
For their night out, Bateman donned a sleek black suit paired with a coordinating black crew-neck shirt, while Anka chose an elegant red gown highlighted with gold accents.
Additional photos captured the duo, both aged 57, embracing warmly as Anka gazed affectionately at her husband.
Bateman’s new series, featuring Linda Cardellini, David Harbour, Pedro Pascal, and Peter Sarsgaard, follows a complicated love triangle that takes a dark turn when one of the individuals ends up dead.
Most recently, the “Arrested Development” alum — who shares daughters Francesca, 19, and Maple, 14, with Anka — revealed that he chose to get sober ahead of their 2001 wedding because his drinking was causing “tension” in their relationship.
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter last week, the “Ozark” actor recalled the time when Anka asked him when the “spigot [of his partying days] was going to completely turn off.”
“[She] didn’t demand that I completely absolve, but that was sort of the back-and-forth,” he recalled of their “negotiations” over his alcohol and cocaine consumption.
“I was like, ‘Well, I feel like my [sobriety] ETA is six months away, but if I could land this plane now, it would alleviate a lot of the tension, so let’s just f–king do it,” he told the outlet.
Since then, Bateman has been California sober.
“I’ve got friends who had bottoms that were pretty chilling, but I was lucky enough to recognize, ‘This is probably as far as I should go if I still want to accomplish the things that I want to get to,’” he explained to the outlet.
“I was conscious the whole time of wanting to get a lot of these boxes checked before I became a father and a guy with a career that I not only wanted but had a feeling I might be able to get it if I just got the right job,” the “SmartLess” podcast host added.
His sobriety, wedding and breakthrough “Arrested Development” role all happened within “12 to 24 months,” Bateman explained to Esquire in December 2025, noting that he had also quit smoking cigarettes.
The decade before that was “confusing and challenging … a learning curve.”
Bateman described there was “a handful of things” he “couldn’t be doing” to be successful, and 2001 was the right time to “execute the plan.”