NEW YORK  –  The state of Jason Bateman’s relation­ship with his sister Justine has stirred speculation over the years thanks to their differing politics and now he has shared a tiny bit of insight. In a recent interview with a magazine, the “Zootopia 2” star talked briefly about why he and his sister, actress/director Justine Bateman, don’t see each other much. “There isn’t the typical ‘We see each other every Thanksgiving or every Christmas and our kids want to be together.’ There isn’t that. In a great way,” he said. “Our conversations are the rich conversations you would have with an adult friend, not the kind of petulant back-and-forth you might have with your adult sibling.” “We hang out, and we’re nice to each other because we re­spect one another as individuals regardless of the blood thing,” Bateman added. “I’m seeing her for lunch next week.” Their relationship has been the subject of scrutiny given Justine Bateman’s sup­port of President Donald Trump and her brother’s past criticism of Trump’s supporters. Justine Bateman tried to squash the speculation in Sep­tember, when she took to X to say that “Anyone bringing up my brother to me for any other rea­son than to say you like his new upcoming show, or any of his past work, will be muted at best, and blocked at worst.” “I’m not interested in your fantasy about some imagined conflict be­tween the two of us over your political ideolo­gies. Really, it’s sick,” she wrote. “So, keep it up. It makes it easy for me if identify yourselves, so I can make an X setting adjustment to never have to hear from you, ever again.” That was a few months after Jason Bateman appeared on “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace” podcast in June and joked he was “addicted” to “the Trump show.” “I can’t stop watching the things that he does and the things that he says and marry that to the fact that there are 80-some million people that would vote again for him tomorrow,” he said.