Jeffrey
Tambor is addressing his departure from Transparent,
two years after
he was fired
amid sexual harassment allegations. Tambor, who won two Emmys playing
Maura Pfefferman on the Amazon dramedy, apologized for his behavior
Wednesday on Gilbert
Gottfried’s Colossal Show.
"So
regarding how I left the show, I just want to make it really, really
clear for your listeners out there that I'm not this guy,"
Tambor began on the SiriusXM show. "I in no way ever, ever
intended to make anyone feel uncomfortable."
Jeffrey Tambor apologizes for his
behavior on tthe set of Amazon's Transparent, saying, "I'm
sorry it ended the way it did." (Photo: Getty Images)
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Tambor
was
accused of harassing
three women, including his former assistant and transgender actress
Van Barnes, Transparent
actress
Trace Lysette, who is also transgender, and makeup artist Tamara
Delbridge. Barnes claimed the 75-year-old actor watched her sleep
naked. Tambor denied the allegations and after his firing called
Amazon's investigation "deeply flawed."
Months
later, Tambor admitted to the Hollywood
Reporter
he was "difficult" on set. "Lines got blurred,"
he said, revealing he yelled at the crew. "I was mean."
Tambor said his obsessive determination to accurately portray Maura,
a transgender character, brought out the worst in him. He praised his
former cast in the new interview.
"This
cast was amazing," he declared. "It was sort of raucous, it
was wonderful and irreverent and loving and personal and, you know,
we told personal stories and I got to be Jeffrey and I got to play
Maura and it was vital for the [LGBTQ] community, I'm so proud of
it."
Tambor
continued, "Regarding how I left the show, I just want to say, I
never, ever, ever, ever intended to make anyone feel uncomfortable.
Ever. It's just not who I am."
The
actor admitted to having "character defects," joking his
wife of nearly 20 years, Kasia Ostlun, "has the list."
Tambor
went back to talking about the cast, explaining, "We loved each
other. We were irreverent. We were honest. We were vulnerable. We had
stories that were very, very personal. We trusted one another. It was
a set like — we were raucous, it was a set like no other."
However,
Tambor said there were "instances" where his interaction
"with these lovely people, could have been mistaken way other,
way other, than how I intended." He said he has "profoundly"
apologized.
"And
I apologize now, if I made anyone, anyone feel vulnerable and I'm
sorry," he added. "I'm sorry it ended the way it did, but I
just wanted to say, you know, I have to say it, I'm so proud of
playing Maura and part of the LGBT community and getting that
important message out and it's a highlight of my life and I just
can't let the day go and I can't leave this studio without saying
something. And I love you guys."
In
his May 2018 interview with THR,
Tambor explained he had lifelong anger issues, but maintained he did
not sexually harass anyone.
"I
drove myself and my castmates crazy," he said. "Lines got
blurred. I was difficult. I was mean. I yelled at [Transparent
creator]
Jill [Soloway] — she told me recently she was afraid of me. I
yelled at the wonderful [executive producer] Bridget Bedard in front
of everybody. I made her cry. And I apologized and everything, but
still, I yelled at her. The assistant directors. I was rude to my
assistant. I was moody. Sometimes I didn’t talk at all."
Tambor
continued, "And this is where the reader says, 'So what?' You
know? 'You’re coming in from the Palisades, you drive in, you get a
good paycheck, you get to play one of the best roles in the world.
So. What.' ... But I was scared, because I was a cisgender male
playing Maura Pfefferman. And my whole thing was, 'Am I doing it
right? Am I doing it right? Am I doing it right?' To the point that I
worried myself to death."
After
his firing, Tambor's career didn't stall. He appeared in Netflix's
revival of Arrested
Development
and has completed production on the animated film The
Adventures of Drunky and
Disney's
Magic Camp,
according to IMDB.
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