Jeff Garlin Used 'Power and Status to Intimidate and Demean' Colleagues: New Book

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JP Mangalindan
Tue, June 6, 2023 at 6:00 AM PDT

Maureen Ryan's 'Burn It Down' details the circumstances leading up to Garlin's abrupt 2021 exit from 'The Goldbergs,' as well as complaints and a settlement from his time on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm’

Jeff Garlin’s onscreen delivery in The Goldbergs and Curb Your Enthusiasm may have elicited laughter, but his alleged troublesome behavior behind the scenes made working on the set challenging for crew members.

According to Maureen Ryan’s new book, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, the actor’s “disrespectful” and “disparaging” behavior towards nearly everyone on the set of The Goldbergs” was allowed to run unchecked by showrunner Adam F. Goldberg.

“It was a big boys club of men who were probably always kind of the dorks in high school that got picked on, then all of a sudden, they had this power,” an insider told Ryan, referring to Garlin, Goldberg and other high-powered men on the show.

Another insider claimed that Garlin, 61, wielded his "power and status to intimidate and demean everyone on this crew."

The actor's behavior — which several insiders described as “harassing, disparaging or physically problematic,” but which Garlin himself played down as just “joking” — led to the actor being investigated at least three times by HR while working on the show.