Transparent to end with Season 5; Jeffrey Tambor denies sexual harassment but admits to being mean

The Hollywood Reporter

Transparent creator Jill Soloway announced that her Amazon series will end with a Tambor-less Season 5 in a Hollywood Reporter article that delves into the actor's ouster. “Hopefully it sets the Pfeffermans up with some sort of beautiful reclaiming,” she said. “I think we’re going to get there with some time.” In The Hollywood Reporter article, Tambor opened up for the first time about how he was fired by text by Soloway. But Tambor says he felt blindsided by his firing because he was expecting a "slap on the wrist." He admitted to having issues with anger management. He once had a "blowup" with Jessica Walter on the Arrested Development set. “I drove myself and my castmates crazy,” he said. “Lines got blurred. I was difficult. I was mean. I yelled at 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.” But he denies the allegations from his two accusers, Van Barnes, his former assistant, and Trace Lysette, an actress on Transparent. “What I said was that she was a disgruntled assistant," he says of Barnes. "I think that was generous of me. I dispute her account. I did raise my voice at times, I was moody at times, there were times when I was tactless. But as for the other stuff, absolutely not.”