Will Arnett "cried for an hour" on the side of the road after split with Amy Poehler, says filming Arrested Development was "just brutal, brutal, brutal"

The Guardian

Arnett was filming Season 4 of Arrested Development for Netflix when he and Poehler decided to separate. He was thrilled to be back with the cast, he tells The Guardian, but the shoot was, he says “almost excruciating … Just brutal, brutal, brutal. I was driving to the set one day and I pulled over to the side of the road and cried for an hour.” At least he was working with Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz at the time, who, he says, helped him to turn his pain into something “hilarious and cathartic” on the show. That pain directly fed into his other Netflix series BoJack Horseman and Flaked. His self-loathing, narcissistic character on the latter was, he says, “an amalgamation of characteristics that I didn’t like about other people and other stuff about me that I didn’t like. Yeah, what a weird thing to do. But it was kind of the only thing I knew how to do. It was a painful couple of years, but I had to go through it, I guess.” As for Arrested Development's two-season revival on Netflix, Arnett says: “You know, I think there were a lot of things in those seasons that did not work. We weren’t all together, for a start,” referring to the scheduling difficulties that made it impossible to get the actors all together at the same time. “But," he adds, "there were moments when we were together and I was crying with laughter, and it was worth it for that. Maybe it was like a very expensive reunion for all of us.”