Jury Duty Star Ronald Gladden On Realizing It Was Fake

If you have not watched Jury Duty, you are lacking out on one of many funniest TV exhibits of the final a number of years.

The sequence, which airs on Amazon Freevee (Amazon’s free streaming channel), is a mixture of The Office and The Joe Schmo Show (in the event you’re sufficiently old to keep in mind that — if not, simply know that it was an elaborate prank present set inside a faux actuality present).

And the premise is that they are taking pictures a “documentary” about what it’s prefer to serve jury responsibility, besides one of many jurors would not know that and thinks he’s serving on an actual jury.

That “juror” is Ronald Gladden (who’s additionally unknowingly the star of the present).

And just lately, he spoke to People concerning the expertise of filming the present and pondering that every thing that was occurring round him was actual.

According to him, he has been capable of course of that the entire thing was faux, however that it took a while, saying, “But I’m not kidding, months and months down the road after this, I was still getting hit with things like, Oh wow, was that staged, was that fake, was that an actor?“

Ronald then went on to say, “It took months for me to come to the realization that this actually happened and to accept it.”

Even although it was not in any means a malicious prank that was being performed on Ronald, the sequence showrunner, Cody Heller, informed People that they took his psychological well being very critically, saying, “His mental health obviously always came first, and we never wanted to do anything to traumatize him or do anything to make him feel bad in any way.”

Adding, “But the whole point of the show was to celebrate this guy being a hero, which I mean, who knew that we could wind up with literally the kindest man in the world?”