Portia de Rossi's bizarre return to Arrested Development has fans baffled and pointing out mistakes
Fans were left baffled - and in some cases, annoyed - by Portia de Rossi's return to the TV series Arrested Development in season five.
A number of viewers took to social media to point out aesthetic inconsistencies when watching the Australia-born beauty on the series, noting that scenes featuring the 43-year-old wife of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who plays the role of Lindsay Bluth Fünke, were askew.
In some cases, her character was positioned under a sheet as part of an ongoing storyline in the program, and in other cases, looked egregiously positioned in front of a green screen.
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Say what? Arrested Development fans took to social media to point out they had noticed a number of tricks with Portia de Rossi's character, including green screen shots and a storyline that puts the actress under a sheet
A number of viewers took to Twitter to comment on the perceived subterfuge.
'I'm not sure who did the green screen work for the new series of Arrested Development but I'm assuming it was some sort of dog in a hat,' a user under the handle @DanNerdCubed wrote.
Said the user @jimmy_G236: 'Was Portia de Rossi green screened into every scene? Good god I love me some Lindsey but this isn’t subtle.'
And a user named @h0lly_miles wrote: 'Portia De Rossi’s edit in #ArrestedDevelopmentSeason5 is so sloppy. You wouldn’t expect it of such a seasoned show. It would have been more comfortable if she was just written out completely.'
Creative: The actress donned a sheet as part of the storyline on the program
Smoke and mirrors: The green screen and sheet had fans wondering how often Portia had filmed scenes with her co-stars, and how often she was put in via post-production
The show has past utilized green screen technology to compensate for cast members not being able to appear on the set simultaneously, as season four included a number of scenes of separate performances which were pieced together in post-production.
Portia, who's past been seen on programs such as Ally McBeal, Nip/Tuck and Scandal, told wife Ellen earlier this month that she decided to put off a previously-planned retirement from acting 'about 18 months ago,' and had told Arrested Development's creator Mitch Hurwitz as much, but there was a change of heart along the way somewhere.
'I called Mitch Hurwitz … and I said if there is a Season five, I wont be doing it because I quit acting and he seemed really understanding and he totally got it,' she said. 'We had a great conversation and then he wrote me into five episodes.
'Don't know how it happened, but yes I am on Season five.'
The actress was absent from the recent controversial group interview with The New York Times that made headlines amid Jason Bateman's defense of Jeffrey Tambor amid claims from Jessica Walter of 'verbal harassment' from Tambor on the set of the show. Bateman subsequently apologized for his remarks.