Reality hoax series Jury Duty has been turning heads since it premiered on Amazon Freevee back in April as part of the 2023 TV schedule. Audiences seem to have become taken with the concept of a fake jury trial, in which one juror is completely unaware of the facade. Interestingly enough, the juror, Ronald Gladden, revealed to CinemaBlend that he was never suspicious about the cameras, even after finding a Craigslist ad about a “documentary.” Questions still lingered about the hiring process, though. And now, casting director Susie Farris is revealing the work the actual actors had to go through, and the process is wild enough to have been a TV show in its own right.
Susie Farris discussed the casting process for the Emmy-nominated Jury Duty while speaking with IndieWire. Given its format, the undertaking didn’t really involve much script-reading since much of the series would involve a lot of improv. In addition, all of this had to be done in the midst of COVID, so auditions had to be done virtually. Yet Farris ultimately thinks the method of work she and her colleagues employed was beneficial:
