Arrested Development creator: We couldn't cut Jeffrey Tambor out of Season 5 because "there would be no show"

Entertainment Weekly

The news that Tambor was being investigated for sexual harassment on the Transparent set broke on Nov. 8. Mitch Hurwitz wrapped filming on Season 5 at the end of November, and says Tambor was "as surprised by it as I was" by the allegations. Hurwitz says he checked with Arrested's cast and crew, as well as Netflix and studio 20th Century Fox, to see if Tambor had been the subject of any sexual misconduct complaints. Tambor wasn't fired from the Amazon series until Feb. 15. So given the information Hurwitz had at the time, he said he proceeded with Tambor on the show. “We were done shooting — there was no version of cutting him out of the show, or there would be no show,” Hurwitz explains, adding: “Am I going to cut Jeffrey out of the show, based on allegations that he disputes, that Amazon hasn’t shared, and that we have never experienced any complaints about? No, of course I am not going to…. I’m going to support Jeffrey.”