Like all the supporting players in this new generation of real-life movies-of-the-week, Fishman and many of his co-stars are trying to save their own skin. They knew who they were getting into bed with and hoped that, maybe, she might have changed.
Perhaps Metcalf and Goodman feel no need to exonerate themselves via the public confessional. They are both presumably very wealthy after years of regular series roles plus the myriad amount of one-offs and movies and plays. And maybe they don't feel the need to cry crocodile tears in order for people to understand that they don't share Roseanne Barr's views.
As any relative of an addict knows- and I suspect that Barr is herself an addict of infamy and controversy- you are always giving them the benefit of the doubt and hoping that they had changed their ways. I can only assume that the players involved hoped that Roseanne had changed.
Saying "I find her statements offensive" is not an act of bravery on the level of "I am Spartacus". |
