I shared my own tale of being screamed at for a male colleague's screwup, because I was a more convenient target. Stories from law firms. My great crime was not double-spacing after every period." "Had a boss who screamed and threw a stapler at me. "A lawyer I worked for when I was 20 cussed me out and spat water at me because I got him water without ice." "A boss yelled and threw a burrito at me." When writer Jessica Wakeman asked on Twitter Thursday, "Out of curiosity, who else has been yelled / shouted at by a man in the workplace?" she quickly amassed over a thousand replies. OK, maybe it was, but other people do it too. OK maybe not to that extent, but you have to give him special consideration that's his process. Oh, the contradictory backflips that can be done to justify verbal abuse. but it didn't have the same kind of feeling that Jeffrey's did."Īnd there it is - gaslighting in real time. And there was no excuse when Jessica did it. I'm sorry that we behaved the way we behaved," before adding, "There's never an excuse ever for yelling at somebody and humiliating them in front of other people. One day and a whole heap of outcry later, David Cross followed up with an apologetic interview in Gothamist in which he stated, "I will unequivocally apologize to Jessica. And I consider him one of my favorite, most valued people in my life."
He continued: "All I can say, personally, is I have never learned more from an actor that I’ve worked with than Jeffrey Tambor. but to be surprised by people having a wobbly route to their goal, their process - it’s very rarely predictable." The kicker came when Bateman - who has since offered a lackluster apology on Twitter - explained away Tambor's behavior by saying, "What we do for a living is not normal, and therefore the process is not normal sometimes, and to expect it to be normal is to not understand what happens on set. But when Deb trotted out the elephant in the room, things got weird fast. As soon as the topic of Tambor's on set behavior arose, cast members David Cross, Will Arnett, Tony Hale and, most enthusiastically, Jason Bateman leapt to his defense, even as Jessica Walter admitted through tears, "in like almost 60 years of working, I’ve never had anybody yell at me like that on a set."
Much of Sopan Deb's piece is a straightforward entertainment story. If you haven't read it, it's a remarkable example of a phenomenon known as the Self-disclosing D-bag. Sometimes I didn’t talk at all." It seemed a groundwork was being laid for the next step in his public image rehabilitation.īut then, The New York Times interview appeared and detonated all over your Twitter timeline. (Narrator's voice: It didn't.)Įarlier in May, The Hollywood Reporter ran a soft focus profile of the actor, complete with a pensive photograph and a vague admission that on the "Transparent" set, "I was mean, I was difficult . You don't have to be on the set of a beloved sitcom to know exactly what it feels like to be on the business end of a temper tantrum - or to watch in astonishment as your colleagues let it slide because that screaming, sputtering baby is so important.Īfter actor Jeffrey Tambor was shown the door out of Amazon's "Transparent" last fall in the wake of sexual harassment accusations, fans of "Arrested Development" wondered how the news might shake up the new season of that show. When the slow motion train wreck of that interview with the cast of "Arrested Development" was published on Wednesday, it struck an immediate and nauseatingly familiar chord with workers from all walks of life.
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