Arrested Development (Netflix) TV Show • Page 30

I'm really curious how Portia would have been if she was at that interview

 

Fuck this show forever

 

yeah, gotta love how like every dude in that room felt the need to jump in and downplay Walter’s experience each time she said something...

 

Hollywood seems so fucked.

 

Ugggggggghhhhhh good GOD that was bad. I’m a sensitive fellow I guess because if I were in that room listening to her cry like that I’d feel no other desire than to comfort her and tell her this shouldn’t have happened to her and that’s just that. I want to say I don’t understand how that’s not the natural response, but I know exactly why it’s not. The whole system’s fucked. Men need to be taught to not be shitty.

 

He’s denying the sexual assault allegations but reckoning with himself for being an asshole on set

 

Welp this thread went exactly the way I thought it would.

 

Meaning?

 

Meaning these allegations have been out for months and months and it was obvious this shit would hit the fan as soon as the show rolled back around. They should have either canned the season or just fired Tambor to start with.

 

Probably coulda not given the worst interview of all time too.

 

Like, I kinda get what Bateman was trying to do, diffuse the situation, but holy shit not a great time to do it.

 

Yea...I think he was just trying to keep the interview in a fluffy place , but at the cost of ignoring / laughing off a supposed friend’s emotions is pretty lame.

 

I met Jessica Walter once in a grocery store in Westchester, NY and she was the absolute sweetest person in the world so Jeff can fuck right off no one gets to be mean to her.

 

Even if she’d been a jerk to you doesn’t mean she should be harassed on a set.

 

Yeah we get it Greg.

 

I'm not really interested in guessing at Bateman's intentions. Between his proclamations of love for Tambor and the words that left his mouth, he's given us no reason to believe his motives were about diffusing the situation more than any other apologist.

I don't think anyone in here meant that badly, either - just my two cents. Again, listening to that felt EXACTLY like listening to my "friends" shut me down when speaking about my abuser (down to the declarations of loyalty for him and implying I somehow overreacted to or misunderstood the normalcy of the situation/gaslighting) and if it quacks like a duck... I'm not gonna assume it's a puppy.

 

As others have said, Bateman saying “Not to belittle her point” does exactly that.

 

That interview is devastating and valuable. Props to Jessica, Alia and the interviewer for confronting the issue and acknowledging what was happening in the room.

 

Man fuck all of this. The gall of everyone that wasn't Walter, Shawkat or the interviewer.

fuck

 

I love Arnett and Bateman, but they could have really benefited from letting other people talk during the questions about Tambour. That part had nothing to do with them.

 

Bateman just responded via twitter. At least he acknowledges it sounded terrible.

 

Bateman's response; 4 Tweets

 

oh wow

 

Things like this kinda blow my mind because it sounds like he didn't realize what he did or how awful he sounded until he got criticism/listened back even tho someone was literally crying during the interview. If I see someone crying in a convo I'm part of I immediately step back and think omg what did I say/what's wrong here?? How is that not a giant indicator in the moment

 

Exactly. Hollywood has normalized some truly reprehensible behavior. I’d like to think that most people would respond the way you’ve just described. Obviously that’s not the case, but it should be. “Someone’s crying and visibly shaken? Geez, are you okay? I’m so sorry.”

That seems like a...pretty simple thing to do and it’s alarming that it’s just not.