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Yikes. Yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes. I wasn’t planning on watching anyway because I’m so over it but yikes this is awful. Not one person stood up for her besides the only other woman. Both of them were spoken over, mostly by Jason Bateman. Just awful. 

So, my dad used to write the ads for United Airlines in the early 2000′s. Jeffrey Tambor auditioned and was outrageously rude: both to my dad (who was giving him the fucking job in the first place) and the crew. Apparently, he acted as if he was too good for the job while simultaneously behaving like a grasping, desperate, ass. Not a nice man to say the very least.

Jason Bateman: Again, not to belittle it or excuse it or anything, but in the entertainment industry it is incredibly common to have people who are, in quotes, “difficult.” And when you’re in a privileged position to hire people, or have an influence in who does get hired, you make phone calls. And you say, “Hey, so I’ve heard X about person Y, tell me about that.” And what you learn is context. And you learn about character and you learn about work habits, work ethics, and you start to understand. Because it’s a very amorphous process, this sort of [expletive] that we do, you know, making up fake life. It’s a weird thing, and it is a breeding ground for atypical behavior and certain people have certain processes.

Alia Shawkat: But that doesn’t mean it’s acceptable. And the point is that things are changing, and people need to respect each other differently.

Jessica Walter [THROUGH TEARS]: Let me just say one thing that I just realized in this conversation. I have to let go of being angry at him. He never crossed the line on our show, with any, you know, sexual whatever. Verbally, yes, he harassed me, but he did apologize. I have to let it go. [Turns to Tambor.] And I have to give you a chance to, you know, for us to be friends again.

Jeffrey Tambor: Absolutely.

Jessica Walter: But it’s hard because honestly — Jason says this happens all the time. In like almost 60 years of working, I’ve never had anybody yell at me like that on a set. And it’s hard to deal with, but I’m over it now. I just let it go right here, for The New York Times.

Jessica Walter has been a working actor for about sixty years and she has to deal with male actors DECADES her junior gaslighting her and telling her that being verbally assaulted by another actor is “typical” and normal? Implying that she doesn’t get the “process” and entertainment business? Jason Bateman is 49 years old and Davis Cross is 54; that they think they need to explain the business Walters has been working in for longer than they’ve been alive is the epitome of entitlement. 

It’s just the process. Bull. Shit. If the only way you can be an actor is by dehumanizing and objectifying others, maybe you’re not that great of an actor.