After a decade-long friendship, comedy producers David Bernard and Todd Schulman finally put together their hidden-camera comedy expertise to make Amazon Freevee’s viral success “Jury Duty.” The ex…
As you went through thousands of applications, how did you and the team decide on Ronald?: Todd and I both worked separately in different camps of the genre. We both probably had different experiences in casting for the genre. At least for me, I wanted someone that felt like they had a story to be told. There was a long interview process, and you can tell he was someone with a kindness to him.
If there’s a second season, have you guys toyed around with a different premise, something that isn’t a jury?: Very loosely, yes. One of the initial premises of the show was it is a jury trial, but we sold it as every day you’re on trial, every day you’re confronted with situations and opportunities to make a decision. The show’s very specifically built where every episode someone brings a premise to Ronald and it’s Ronald deciding how he’s going to interact.
When Ronald comes into play with the scripted content versus the improvised content, were there elements you had to immediately nix? Were there any improvised moments when Ronald was “up for trial” or were those entirely scripted?: A weird moment [was] where we actually scripted that racist beat. It was gonna go down a different way, but amazingly, Ronald just went there for whatever reason — that’s why I love the genre so much because it’s so alive you really never know what you’re gonna get.
: This is our third or fourth time working together, so it’s an easier phone call. But he’s brilliant with committed, dramatic, earnest comedy. He’s someone who’s overlooked for whatever reason. For me, he’s someone that would kill this, someone that is fearless, he was not afraid of what it was and was excited about the improv nature. That’s a big ask, to come in and basically improv for 17 days. We really didn’t think about other people. He was one of the first phone calls.
Did you have any reservations about how to approach the pilot, knowing you were setting the series’ tone? We approached the tone of this with that same good-heartedness [as Ronald]. Ronald will always be looking at stupid behavior, people will be doing stupid things and Ronald will be reacting to that — and ultimately being placed in a position to be a hero.
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