Surprising perhaps because of his departure from Amazon's Transparent after misconduct allegations.
Don't know how to feel about this. I definitely enjoy Tambor's character in AD. I wish I knew more about the investigation Amazon did... hard for me to pass judgment on him without knowing the full details.
Its kind of like how someone tells you your friend is being an asshole and you're like "Him? He wouldn't do that" and you're kind of in denial until you're presented hard evidence.
I don't how to feel about this either but I want to include the caveat that these are my personal feelings and my personal feelings alone and my feelings about
THIS Tambor case and this case only. I definitely feel/think this is a different kind of issue than situation like Cosby/Polanski (as many popular sites today in the tweet world have compared it to today which honestly is irresponsible journalism, disingenuous too) in light of the absence of a history of sexual misconduct on Tambor's part (to the best of my research/googling), no release of the investigation conducted by Amazon
, and people/previous crews attesting to Tambor's appropriate behavior while working and not and no criminal/civil case moving forward especially since this whole event is well within limitation statutes.
None of these points amounts to a complete reasoning to dismiss the accusers as it is still my hope they are being protected (Amazon's dismissal of Tambor would speak to this), and ever lead and every piece of information was followed up on, and that should more accusers in his profesional/past come forward more investigations are quickly and exactingly moved forward.
I also want to be fully upfront and say that for a few years I was Hurwitz's neighbor and interacted with Tambor multiple times and while he could be kind of standoffish and a tad brusk I never got the vibe of creepiness coming off him even while watching him interacting with women/men others. Through out my career, I have gotten the described vibe from people who went on to later be accused and taken to litigation who definitely
DID, in person, come off as creepy, predatory. This is all purely anecdotal but it definitely informs my inherent bias here just to be, literally, fully transparent.
This whole new environment of accountability is heartening, long due, but, that said, incredibly ethically vexing. New problems and ambiguousness have arisen and nuance seems to have been shuttled lower on our collective priority lists. Further, I think believing everybody
ALWAYS as a rule(male/female/trans people) is as much a quagmire as
NOT believing everybody or presumptuously casting doubt on victims. Maybe Netflix is releasing this because it is already filmed and they stand to lose millions to refilm the new season
sans Tambor or maybe they examined the situation and felt there was not enough evidence/a criminal case to cut business ties with the fellow. I don't know but if the details change or more damning evidence is presenting I will definitely reverse my stance and push for a removal of him from future projects. I think that is my right, I think that is fairness.
Edit: I actually forgot about a house of cards show so I'll let Netflix live another day
Good point. They have done their due diligence previously. If things were about business only it also seems to me they would have continued on with Spacey (he was one of their premier players on the service) but the many accusations and his long history of dubious behaviors (this is based on long-standing murky rumours about his behavior here in Los Angeles, all eerily describing the same kind of situation).
