Under The Skin: Why That 'Arrested Development' Interview Is So Bad

Why this story?

I had this conversation with several people last night after an interview with the cast of Arrested Development ran in The New York Times ahead of the show's return to Netflix. In the interview, the men in the cast, led by Jason Bateman, seem to dismiss an incident during production. According to Jeffrey Tambor's own account in The Hollywood Reporter, Tambor and Jessica Walter had a "blowup," and later he "profusely apologized." According to Walter in the Times conversation: "In like almost 60 years of working, I've never had anybody yell at me like that on a set."

To take a step back, the reason Tambor's treatment of Walter on the set came up in the first place was that he had mentioned it to a couple of weeks earlierThe very sympathetic piece, titled with his passive-voice quote discusses his feelings and his sadness and his sense of betrayal after his firing from Amazon's critically acclaimed . Tambor was fired from after being accused of sexual harassment by two transgender women: Trace Lysette, who's an actress on the show, and Van Barnes, who's Tambor's former assistant. Aside from those accusations, Tambor says in the story that he