Amazon Freevee’s ‘Jury Duty’ Cast: James Marsden, More

There’s no crazier jury responsibility expertise than Amazon Freevee’s Jury Duty sequence and its comedic solid of actors reacting to unsuspecting Ronald Gladden.

The comedy, which premiered on Amazon Freevee earlier this month, is filmed mockumentary-style as a gaggle of potential jurors undergo the voir dire choice course of and a civil trial. While early episodes seem like Jury Duty is a actuality TV present chronicling jury choice, a lot of the solid are literally actors apart from one participant, who’s unaware that all the things is fictionalized.

Gladden, for his half, is a contractor by commerce, who answered a obscure Craigslist advert to take part in a documentary about jury responsibility. Little did he know that his fellow jurors are all performers, together with James Marsden as a sensationalized model of himself.

“We called him The Hero throughout the whole thing because we were creating a hero’s journey for somebody,” the 27 Dresses actor, 49, recalled of Gladden throughout an April interview with IndieWire. “If I saw any signs that he was tortured or that he was uncomfortable, I was ready to say, ‘I’m out. Pull the plug.’ And I was serious about it. I can’t sleep at night if I know that I’m making somebody, who doesn’t know that any of this is fake, uncomfortable in any way.”

He continued on the time: “The challenge for me was that I was a point person for Ronald. It was essential that I had his trust, that we had good banter, that there was a friendship there. So, whenever I did something that he didn’t like or that he thought was really sh—ty behavior, I would then have to pull it back a bit and just be normal James to get back in his good graces. And then he would hopefully think, ‘OK. There’s a nice guy in there, he just kind of got carried away in that moment.’”

While the Jury Duty solid — together with Marsden and Sex Lives of College Girls’ Mekki Leeper — had a tough script to comply with, Gladden fully improvised his scenes based mostly on spur-of-the-moment reactions to the over-the-top conditions.

“I was just under the impression that this was going to be a behind-the-scenes look … or what it was like for jury duty,” the development employee recalled to Access Hollywood in April. “So, I signed up for what I thought was a documentary. I didn’t really know what was going on until the end.”

Though Gladden was unaware that he was basically being pranked on the Freevee sitcom, Marsden gushed that his TV costar made “comedy gold” with out attempting.

“[Ronald was] like, ‘Do I recognize you? I didn’t know from what?’” the Westworld alum recalled of the pair’s first Jury Duty scene throughout an April look on the “Chicks in the Office” podcast. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ve been in a lot of stuff’ and then I saw someone who was actually wearing socks that looked like it said ‘Sonic’ on it. Again, this is all just on the fly. … I’m just trying to think of a way in to talk about, you know, my stuff.”

Gladden, for his half, replied that he didn’t know Marsden was in Sonic The Hedgehog earlier than retorting that he heard the 2020 movie acquired dangerous opinions. “[It’s] comedy gold,” the Hairspray actor gushed on the podcast. “And then, I get to go, ‘Yeah, I mean a lot of people saw it, you should check it out, and then the next day he came in [and said], ‘Oh man, I’m sorry. I saw the movie last night. It was so great, you didn’t tell me Ben Schwartz is in it!’”

Marsden added: “He was actually hitting moments that were scripted before we even got him there.”

Scroll under to seek out out the place you’ve seen the solid of Jury Duty earlier than:

James Marsden (Self)

After a sequence of visitor spots on numerous TV sequence, the Oklahoma native acquired his huge break taking part in Scott Summers in 2000’s X-Men. He has since starred in lots of hit motion pictures together with Zoolander, The Notebook, Superman Returns, Enchanted, Hop, The Best of Me, Sonic the Hedgehog and Netflix’s Dead to Me.

Ronald Gladden (Self)

Jury Duty is Gladden’s debut appearing function, through which he performs himself. The San Diego native works in building.

Mekki Leeper (Noah Price)

The Philadelphia native, who can be a author on Jury Duty, is a slapstick comedian greatest identified for his function as Eric on Mindy Kaling’s Sex Lives of College Girls. Leeper additionally had a short cameo in a 2018 episode of New Girl. 

Edy Modica (Jeannie Abruzzo)

Modica’s appearing credit embrace The Special Without Brett Davis, High Maintenance, Reveries: Going Deeper, Made for Love and Palookaville.

Susan Berger (Barbara Goldstein)

The New York native has appeared in lots of widespread TV sequence, together with Criminal Minds, Hunters, This Is Us, Station 19, Shameless and Veep. The Tragedy of Macbeth actress additionally had a four-episode arc on American Horror Story in 2016.

Maria Russell (Inez De Leon)

Russell portrayed Beth Halloran in Kristen Bell’s The Woman within the House Across the Street from the Girl within the Window after touchdown bit components in Tacoma FD, Why Women Kill, Teen Wolf, Grey’s Anatomy and General Hospital.

Cassandra Blair (Vanessa Jenkins)

The Friends and More alum can be identified for her previous TV credit, together with NCIS: Hawai’i, Side Hustle, Hacks, 9-1-1, Better Things, Westworld and The Rookie. 

David Brown (Todd Gregory)

The Assistance alum is greatest identified for his roles in I Used to Go Here, The Year Between and The Everything Now Show.

Pramode Kumar (Ravi Chattapodhyay)

The India native has been appearing since 1989, touchdown roles in initiatives equivalent to Starsky & Hutch, ER, My Name Is Earl, I Am Singh, Raising Hope and Birds of Prey.

Kirk Fox (Pat McCurdy)

The California native portrays Kenny Boy on Reservation Dogs. Additionally, Fox had small arcs on the likes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Black Monday, The Goldbergs, The Conners, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mick and Rush Hour.

Ross Kimball (Ross Kubiak)

Kimbell is greatest identified for his appearing gigs in Masterminds, Queenpins and Crisis. The Superstore alum has additionally appeared in episodes of Love, Champions, Alone Together and Chicago Med.

Ishmel Sahid (Lonne Coleman)

The That Girl Lay Lay star has additionally appeared in Cousins for Life, Best Friends Whenever, Kingdom, The Mindy Project, Is There Anything Nick Lachey Can’t Do? and Ladies Like Us.

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Jury Duty is at the moment streaming on Amazon Freevee. The last two episodes drop on Friday, April 21.