“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 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.

The cast of ‘Arrested Development’.20th Century Fox Film Corp/Courtesy Everett
“And sort of the rest is history.”