The casting director for JuryDuty reveals how the viral show found its hilarious cast, including standout non-actor Ronald Gladden.
Casting director Susie Farris got the unique opportunity to participate in the meticulous process of jury selection, choosing all but one of 12 jurors — but it was for an entirely made-up court case.
I’ve never cast anything like this before, in that when we started casting, I didn’t have any material. I didn’t have a script. I didn’t have a treatment. I didn’t have anything. It was very much a blank canvas. I think that the writers probably had a rough idea of some characters in their minds when we started doing this, but it certainly didn’t translate to the casting process. We basically started seeing anyone, any man or woman.
As it went on, they were adding more people. They would say, “We need two lawyers, and we need a judge, and we need a plaintiff and the defendant.” They developed scripts, or maybe you’d call them treatments because they didn’t actually have dialogue, and once they started to work on beats, they would come to me and say, “Susie, we need you to cast somebody who works at the restaurant, or we need to cast this expert who’s going to take the stand in the case.”He was really great.
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