And everyone else on the cast did as well. I mean, I really did create a real friendship with him. Let's talk about the whole thing." I couldn't just leave him.
And all of us could not sprint fast enough up to him once the reveal happened and give him a big hug and let him know that. Like, our connections to him were organic and authentic and real. The friendships that were created, the relationships that he forged through the process of making this show were, in fact, very real. It was important to me and it was important to the producers and the cast and everyone who fell in love with this guy very early on, that our North star for this whole process was he's got to know by the end of this that this was fake but not all of it was fake. I actually chatted with him this morning and last night. On forging a real friendship with Gladden – and being worried about the reveal And that sort of level of focus you have to sustain throughout a whole day is exhausting. And all of a sudden, Amazon has two weeks of footage that they can't use. We can't go two weeks into it, and someone screws up and calls somebody by their real name and not their character name. And the closer we get to the finish line, the more is at stake. I don't want to be the one to blow the whole thing. Where do you sit? It's just intricate and I remember thinking, just sweating bullets, just like, I don't think I'm ready for this and I don't think I'm gonna be funny. And the other cast members had another week and a half of rehearsals because it was very strategic and very choreographed.
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Ronald Gladden (center, in stripes) is the lone non-actor in the series Jury Duty.Īnd I only had a few days of rehearsal because I was finishing up Party Downat the time. "If we want Ronald to take a left and he wants to take a right, you got to take a right turn with him and adjust, and that was exciting and. "You kind of had to be like water and flow and pivot when you needed to because no one knew what he was going to say," Marsden says. For one, the show was only partially scripted, and the actors constantly had to shift in response to what Gladden did.
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Marsden, whose film and TV credits include four X-Men movies, The Notebook, Enchanted, Westworld and Dead to Me, says Jury Duty was like no other acting job he's ever experienced. Marsden says that they told him: "We're surrounding him with is this cast of bizarre, eccentric weirdos and hopefully carving out a path for him to become the leader at the end, and have his 12 Angry Men moment, where he inspires us all and unites us and then we pull the curtain back and celebrate him as a human being." Instead, Marsden says, the intention was to create a "hero's journey" for Gladden. But they assured him that Jury Duty wouldn't be cruel or mean-spirited. "Is this even something that is ethically right to do, to play with someone's human experience over the course of three weeks of their life?"įrom the beginning, Marsden told show creators Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (who also worked on The Office) that he didn't want to participate in a prank show. "I had many reservations, and the biggest one was the wild card of this one human being who's being dropped into this situation that is all fake and manufactured," Marsden says. Actor James Marsden, who plays a satirical, egotistical version of himself, calls the show a "very ambitious conceit." But what Ronald doesn't know is that the whole thing is fake - the entire courthouse has been fitted with hidden cameras and everyone there except him is an actor. Cameras track Ronald as he goes to the LA courtroom, is picked as the jury foreperson and follows along with the court proceedings. In the Amazon Freevee series Jury Duty, a solar contractor named Ronald Gladden has agreed to participate in what he believes is a documentary about the experience of being a juror. The new show Jury Duty has its genetic roots in the old TV show Candid Camera, where surprising things happened to unwitting bystanders - and hidden cameras captured their reactions.
Ishmel Sahid, left, and James Marsden play alternate jurors in the series Jury Duty.
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