Transparent creator Jill Soloway regrets mishandling sexual misconduct claims on set: "I really wanted to protect the show"

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Soloway opens up to the WNYC podcast Nancy about learning of Jeffrey Tambor's alleged sexual misconduct. "At first, I was feeling really, 'Wow, does this mean that all of our principles were bullsh*t if this could still happen on our set?'" said Soloway. "And then I really reminded myself that this is a reckoning, this is a tsunami, that this is happening on the entire planet. It’s not just happening to us… For me, as somebody who’s been saying 'Topple the patriarchy!' for all of these years, and for me, as somebody who’s been believing in this revolution, I had to eventually find a way to (look past) my own personal feelings of hurt… It was such a cultural shift, such a huge moral reckoning for every single person in the country… Of course, it could happen to us, as well."