And they could not cast immediately recognizable actors (except Marsden) for risk of Ronald spotting one. The casting of the actors, and of the juror not in on the joke, was crucial. Some days they just had to do six hours of boring courtroom testimony and business so as to make sure Ronald never doubted this wasn’t all real. In fact the whole enterprise was a risk unlike anything I have seen. The series was created by the veteran comedy team of Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky ( The Office) and was scripted to allow for improv among the actors who, like everyone else involved, were walking a tightrope where at any moment with a wrong move the jig might be up if Ronald suspected anything. The film festival,” Marsden replies with deadpan precision. In Cannes,” “ France?” a lawyer incredulously asks. During selection, the judge (brilliantly played by Alan Barinholtz, father of Ike and a career lawyer who only recently turned to acting in his 70s) asks Marsden, “Have you ever been on a jury before?” to which the actor replies, “Yes. This was the ingenious way producers can put him on camera with no suspicions on his part at times there were also anywhere from four to 35 hidden cameras working in the courtroom.Įveryone else was an actual actor including James Marsden playing himself - but a version of himself where he is, well, kind of a nightmare self-absorbed actor who winds up stuck in the jury process. He is the only person in the show who is not an actor, but rather as he told me at the FYC event for the show on Wednesday at the Pendry Hotel in West Hollywood was selected to go through the jury process and then asked by a documentary crew (fake of course) if he would participate in their documentary chronicling the jury duty process. Jury Duty centers on a courtroom trial that is completely fake, not real, but has been scripted with all actors except one lone juror, Ronald Gladden, who thinks this is actually the real deal. James Marsden, ‘Jury Duty’ Getty/Freevee Amazon But what about the impossible list? That is what I will be shilling for today. Even a savvy betting site like my PMC colleagues at Gold Derby have over 50 of those 95 Comedy entries on their even possible list. Donald Trump may be a nightmare but he is a brand name, so that is what the GOP “base” seems to favor. The odds favor the known entities like voters in every walk of life, political or showbiz or whatever, they tend go with brand names. First of all, there are 95 entries for Outstanding Comedy Series this year (though that is down from last year). I would have added even Hulu’s very funny Reboot, but it was wrongly canceled after just eight episodes and thus doesn’t have a prayer.ĬAN A LONG SHOT GO ALL THE WAY FOR COMEDY SERIES? THE JURY IS OUTīut here is my pitch: What if a genuine long shot, but a totally deserving one that is actually going viral lately, came up on the inside in a late-breaking bid to get into genuine contention? It ain’t easy. Newcomers with lots of heat over the past year could break through into one of the eight spots like Netflix’s Wednesday, Apple TV+’s Shrinking (also from the Lasso producers), Hulu’s award-winning The Bear, Peacock’s Poker Face among others. Maisel, Only Murders in the Building, Abbott Elementary etc., etc. Then we have the stalwarts like Barry, Marvelous Mrs. In Comedy Series, any newcomer has to face Apple TV+ juggernaut Ted Lasso in supposedly its third and final season after winning the past two years in a row. In Drama Series it is HBO’s to lose thanks to the likes of Succession and The White Lotus, both big winners last year ( Lotus has been re-catergorized from Limited Series to Drama Series much to the objection of its producers, one of whom told me they appealed the decision to no avail more than once).
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