“So he was viewed as baggage at that time.”

He continued, “Mitch was very nervous.

He was like, ‘This could be bad luck if we cast him.'”

Jason Bateman in ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

Jason Bateman on ‘Arrested Development’.Credit:20th Century Fox Film Corp/Courtesy Everett

The job is complicated by the rest of his eccentric and dysfunctional family.

“The head of the studio hated how we shot the pilot,” Joe Russo toldTHR.

“Then a year later, we all won Emmys,” added Joe Russo.

ony Hale, David Cross, Will Arnett, Portia de Rossi, Micheal Cera, Alia Shawkat, Jason Bateman, Jessica Walter, and Jeffrey Tambor in ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Season 2

The cast of ‘Arrested Development’.20th Century Fox Film Corp/Courtesy Everett

“And sort of the rest is history.”