How ‘Jury Duty’s’ Ronald Gladden became TV’s most unlikely star
nypost.comearned several Emmy nominations, including “Best Comedy” and “Best Supporting Actor — Comedy” for co-star James Marsden. Part sitcom, “Jury Duty” is a “Truman Show”-esque faux documentary following the proceedings of a trial by jury over the course of a month.
The catch? It’s a fictional trial and everyone is an actor — except for Gladden, a solar contractor from San Diego who found the gig on Craigslist and thought he was participating in a real trial that was being filmed for a local documentary.Marsden plays a conceited blowhard version of himself. “There was always a camera on me,” Gladden told The Post. “But the reason that didn’t make me suspicious was because James [Marsden] was always next to me.
So, I was like, ‘You’ve got a Hollywood superstar here. Of course there’s going to be a camera on me!’ “I thought it was a small local production.
I didn’t think a lot of people were going to see this.” Although Amazon Freevee is opaque about its viewership numbers, clips of the show have gone viral with millions of TikTok views.
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