Arrested Development creator: I didn't realize the on-set incident between Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter was "momentous"

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"I’m guilty of not realizing how deeply upsetting that was for Jessica,” Mitch Hurwitz admitted in an interview with Deadline. “I heard about it and saw parts of it in the dailies, although the part I saw didn’t seem that—I don’t know—momentous. But fights and outbursts always start with things that are smaller.” Hurwitz adds that the fight started over "something minor like he was doing a speech and Jessica wanted to redo something in her speech. She’s a perfectionist, which I have a horrible case of myself, and he’s sort of loose with it, finds his way back if he gets off course within the speech, for instance… And she was resetting and he got upset and was like, ‘Oh, come on! You always do this!’ He continued for a bit and she apologized. ‘I’m sorry, Jeffrey, I’m sorry.’ But he continued and then walked off—the set apparently, but he walked out of frame.”