The actor landed the role of a lifetime on Freevee’s comedy series: Himself.
One of those actors is Marsden, the sole performer who is open to Gladden about his job. But even Marsden is in on the ruse, playing a heightened version of himself — an entitled, egocentric Hollywood A-lister trying to get out of his civic duty., describing the comedy as “a live theater, high-wire act” that felt at times like “a four-week-long improv show.” The stakes were high from the beginning. “You get one take,” says Marsden.
As production started, Marsden said his castmates and the crew slowly filled up Gladden’s “trust bank,” in which they spent hours filming court scenes “where we’re just listening to attorneys drone on.” Once it was clear that Gladden did believe everything was real and it was all being captured for a presumably uneventful documentary, that’s when everyone around him started to push the comedic moments. For Marsden, that meant pushing the limits of who he was as a public figure.
“It was so fun to play against the backdrop of one of the greatest equalizing experiences we have as Americans,” he says. “Nobody gives a shit who you are at jury duty — you’re just one of the rest of us.” One great joy of the show is watching Marsden’s fellow jurors — all actors themselves — scoff at the celebrity’s self-importance. “He’s constantly trying to drop hints about what his next project is going to be, and no one cares,” says Marsden. “I’ve always loved playing that kind of buffoon, someone who thinks they’re the greatest thing in the world, and they’re not.
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