'Jury Duty': Cody Heller on the Magic of Ronald Gladden
The Big Picture When it comes to the main reason why Amazon Prime Video’s Emmy-nominated comedy series Jury Duty worked, no one can deny that it came down to Ronald Gladden. The man at the center of the series, who didn’t even know it, was undoubtedly the best part of the production. While everyone surrounding him was a hired actor who was in the loop with what was going on, Gladden remained completely in the dark in the best way possible.
“Alexis Sampietro is the incredible producer who found Ronald… and all the credit goes to her and her partner in this, Jordan Cohen,” Heller said, giving credit where credit is due when it comes to the people behind discovering America’s kindest man. The showrunner revealed that Sampietro and Cohen shuffled through 2,500 applicants before landing on Gladden.
While there may have been “no wrong answers,” anyone who’s seen the show can attest to Gladden being a one-of-a-kind human being who chose kindness and understanding over alienation time and time again. “Some of my favorite moments of the show are things that were not scripted, at all,” Heller says, citing the touching moment in which Gladden gave the movie A Bug’s Life to the misunderstood inventor Todd and also gave him a makeover that helped boost Todd’s confidence.
A Family Affair Easily standing out from other productions she’s been a part of in the past, , she referred to her time on Jury Duty as “a truly collaborative experience, where we all were making this thing together and the hierarchy didn’t really exist like a normal show.” Diving into that “family” feeling, Heller says, allowed both the production team and the cast to go into it with the mentality of, “‘Let’s try to make this insane thing that’s never been done before.
All eight episodes of Jury Duty are now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Check out the trailer below.
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