Jason Bateman Says He'll Try Not to Mansplain So Much

Jason Bateman is apologizing for being such a huge Jeffrey Tambor apologist that he mansplained away cases of verbal harassment against women.

Tambor was ousted from Amazon's Transparent after several transgender actresses and crewmembers on the show came forward with stories of sexual misconduct. Bateman and the entire cast of Arrested Development have supported Tambor, but when conversation during a New York Times interview turned to Tambor's admitted verbal harassment of colleagues, Bateman marshaled another defense.

The Times reporter had asked about Tambor admitting in another interview to having screamed at co-star Jessica Walter.

"Not to belittle what happened," Bateman began, taking the first stab at answering for the group, instead of letting Walter answer. Bateman said it's common for big stars to be temperamental, he argued that acting is a weird profession that creates weird atmospheres and emotions collide, and he said families have disagreements.

"This is a family and families, you know, have love, laughter, arguments -- again, not to belittle it, but a lot of stuff happens in 15 years," he said. "I know nothing about Transparent but I do know a lot about Arrested Development." Knowing "a lot about Arrested Development" seemed to give Bateman license to speak up -- a lot.

Even after Walter corrected him, speaking through tears, Bateman kept going. "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."

Walter isn't the only woman who Tambor has admitted to verbally harassing. He attacked a number of people on the set of Transparent, he said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

After taking a moment to listen -- to outraged tweets about his behavior and to audio of the interview posted by The New York Times -- Bateman apologized in a series of tweets today.

Although actress Alia Shawkat (Maeby Funke on Arrested Development) said in April, "What those victims said needs to be heard," so far, none of the cast members have apologized for disregarding the transgender women who say Jeffrey Tambor sexually harassed them on the set of Transparent.