A teary Jessica Walter says Jeffrey Tambor verbally harassed her on Arrested Developm - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 05-23-2018, 07:36 PM

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http://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/ar...ey-tambor.html

Tambor previously admitted in a May 7 Hollywood Reporter profile that he had a "blowup" with Walters for which he later "profusely apologized." In a New York Times sitdown with the Netflix series cast, including Tambor, Walter went into detail of Tambor's verbal abuse. "Let me just say one thing that I just realized in this conversation," she said. "I have to let go of being angry at him. He never crossed the line on our show, with any, you know, sexual whatever. Verbally, yes, he harassed me, but he did apologize. I have to let it go." She then turned to Tambor and said, "And I have to give you a chance to, you know, for us to be friends again." For which Tambor responded: "Absolutely." Walter added: "But it’s hard because honestly — Jason (Bateman) says this happens all the time. In like almost 60 years of working, I’ve never had anybody yell at me like that on a set. And it’s hard to deal with, but I’m over it now. I just let it go right here, for The New York Times." ALSO: Jason Bateman tells Tambor he won't do another Arrested season without him.

TMC · 05-24-2018, 08:06 PM

David Cross apologizes to Jessica Walter, brings up her yelling at somebody on set while also offering details on Jeffrey Tambor's outburst
In a lengthy interview today with Gothamist, Cross recalled how his wife, actress Amber Tamblyn, urged him to avoid Twitter last night following the furor yesterday over The New York Times sitdown with the Arrested Development cast. "I will unequivocally apologize to Jessica," he said of his behavior during the interview. "I'm sorry that we behaved the way we behaved. Whatever the criticisms are, I will own up." But Cross also brought up that Walter had her own outburst on set, one that wasn't as bad as Tambor's outburst. "But to Jessica's credit, she felt bad, she apologized," he said. "Portia (di Rossi) wasn't around, so there was a stand-in for her for months and months and months, and there was this incident, but it didn't have the same kind of feeling that Jeffrey's did. Jeffrey's took a lot of the focus. And again, I don't condone that behavior when anybody does it. And that's with crewmembers as well. There's just no excuse." He also offered some detail of Tambor's outburst: "It was shocking, uncomfortable," he said. "Nobody felt good about it. Nobody was gleeful about it. And it's really unfortunate that it did happen. Outside of the extreme nature of the yelling and dressing down in front of the rest of the cast and crew, I think everyone else as well understood the frustration." Cross added that Tambor "made a big mea culpa to the cast and the crew, but the damage was done. Again, that didn't come out of nowhere, he's not American Psycho or whatever. I think Jason (Bateman) pointed this out, but we didn't know about the Transparent stuff, I hadn't seen that behavior ever from him in 15 years. I have now. And that goes into the pile of what I know about Jeffrey. But up until that point I'd never seen that." Finally, Cross was asked if this controversy will affect how Season 5 is received. "Oh yes, without a doubt. At least initially," he said.

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05-23-2018, 07:36 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,348	A teary Jessica Walter says Jeffrey Tambor verbally harassed her on Arrested Developm ...ent set http://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/ar...ey-tambor.html Tambor previously admitted in a May 7 Hollywood Reporter profile that he had a "blowup" with Walters for which he later "profusely apologized." In a New York Times sitdown with the Netflix series cast, including Tambor, Walter went into detail of Tambor's verbal abuse. "Let me just say one thing that I just realized in this conversation," she said. "I have to let go of being angry at him. He never crossed the line on our show, with any, you know, sexual whatever. Verbally, yes, he harassed me, but he did apologize. I have to let it go." She then turned to Tambor and said, "And I have to give you a chance to, you know, for us to be friends again." For which Tambor responded: "Absolutely." Walter added: "But it’s hard because honestly — Jason (Bateman) says this happens all the time. In like almost 60 years of working, I’ve never had anybody yell at me like that on a set. And it’s hard to deal with, but I’m over it now. I just let it go right here, for The New York Times." ALSO: Jason Bateman tells Tambor he won't do another Arrested season without him.

05-24-2018, 08:06 PM	#2
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,348	David Cross apologizes to Jessica Walter, brings up her yelling at somebody on set while also offering details on Jeffrey Tambor's outburst In a lengthy interview today with Gothamist, Cross recalled how his wife, actress Amber Tamblyn, urged him to avoid Twitter last night following the furor yesterday over The New York Times sitdown with the Arrested Development cast. "I will unequivocally apologize to Jessica," he said of his behavior during the interview. "I'm sorry that we behaved the way we behaved. Whatever the criticisms are, I will own up." But Cross also brought up that Walter had her own outburst on set, one that wasn't as bad as Tambor's outburst. "But to Jessica's credit, she felt bad, she apologized," he said. "Portia (di Rossi) wasn't around, so there was a stand-in for her for months and months and months, and there was this incident, but it didn't have the same kind of feeling that Jeffrey's did. Jeffrey's took a lot of the focus. And again, I don't condone that behavior when anybody does it. And that's with crewmembers as well. There's just no excuse." He also offered some detail of Tambor's outburst: "It was shocking, uncomfortable," he said. "Nobody felt good about it. Nobody was gleeful about it. And it's really unfortunate that it did happen. Outside of the extreme nature of the yelling and dressing down in front of the rest of the cast and crew, I think everyone else as well understood the frustration." Cross added that Tambor "made a big mea culpa to the cast and the crew, but the damage was done. Again, that didn't come out of nowhere, he's not American Psycho or whatever. I think Jason (Bateman) pointed this out, but we didn't know about the Transparent stuff, I hadn't seen that behavior ever from him in 15 years. I have now. And that goes into the pile of what I know about Jeffrey. But up until that point I'd never seen that." Finally, Cross was asked if this controversy will affect how Season 5 is received. "Oh yes, without a doubt. At least initially," he said. David Cross "storms off" in awkward Stephen Colbert interview Cross and Colbert, who worked together on The Dana Carvey Show, had a fight and made up in their awkward interview.