The “Arrested Development” story is one that just won’t die, and now Amanda Seyfried has added some more fodder to the fire. During the show’s Season 4 revival in 2013, it came out that Jeffrey Tambor, who has since fallen victim to a #MeToo scandal that cost him his job on Amazon’s “Transparent”, verbally abused costar Jessica Walters.
Walters, who plays the family matriarch Lucille Bluth on “Arrested Development” has spoken about it in the past, ad during a May interview with “The New York Times” promoting the show’s fifth season, it was once again brought up in an interview with the whole cast.
“Arrested Development” follows the Bluth family as they find themselves suddenly poor.
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Walters was actually moved to tears while describing the fateful encounter with Tambor, but the worst part about it was how her costars reacted. Jason Bateman and David Cross not only spoke over Walters, but defended Tambor time and time again. The other female cast member Alia Shawkat (costar Portia de Rossi declined to participate), tried to stand up for Walters, but her voice was mostly drowned out.
Many people were disgusted with Tambor, Bateman and Cross’s handling of the situation and tone during the interview, leading the latter two to release public statements apologizing for their behavior.
It seemed to be forgotten about, but now Amanda Seyfried has reinvigorated the discussion with her latest Instagram post, which featured her husband, “John Wick” costar Thomas Sadowski, smiling with Walters. The caption mentions that Sadowski lost work for posting a similarly impassioned post sticking up for Jessica.
Before reposting her husband’s caption, Seyfried wrote “Here’s a somewhat recent post from my husband who, in return for standing beside a badass woman who’d recently been bullied, recently lost out on a job because of this. I’d rather speak up and lose out. Integrity, ladies and gentlemen. #Repost @thomas_sadoski” The full caption can be read below.
What do you think of this whole “Arrested Development” scandal? Are you still waiting for the second half of season five to drop on Netflix, or has this tainted your perception of the show? Let me know in the comments below!