For Jason Bateman, that person was Laura Linney ... after playing Linney’s husband on the show, Bateman was convinced that the actress could actually be his wife in real life.
Laura Linney’s sweet and sensitive portrayal as ... why doesn’t he offer her any support other than his half-arsed ‘life is full of complications’? Yeah, thanks for that Karl, we know.
But there were, of course, a few famous faces missing from the line-up, one of which was the magnificent Laura Linney. “But what happened to Sarah?” we all screamed at our televisions.