The Big Picture Nicholas Hatton is no stranger to producing unusual projects. He’s a frequent collaborator with Sacha Baron Cohen, after all, working with him on the Oscar-nominated Borat sequel as well as his Emmy-nominated series Who is America? Hatton is once again getting awards buzz for an untraditional series with Jury Duty.
I think the whole world would lose to Ronald, honestly. I'm curious if there's a certain juror or even character — all the witnesses were hilarious, too — other than Ronald that holds a special place in your heart. Whereas, you don't have those pressures if you're doing a scripted show. If the prop in a scripted gag doesn't feel completely right, or the weight of it is wrong, or the finish is slightly wrong, who cares? Because on camera, it looks fine, and the audience gets the joke.
I think that really shines through. One of the Jenga blocks that works so well for this is James Marsden. I'm really curious, what was it about him that put him in the running for this role? What made you think that he would be such a great fit for this? Yeah, that really is. I'm curious if you had to do a season two and find another actor to do something similar, who would you love to work with? And who do you think would sort of thrive like James did in this?
With most scripted shows, even if, as you're making it, it's not very good — maybe the writing isn't quite what you thought it was, maybe the performers aren't quite right, maybe the director…whatever — maybe it's just collectively a bit disappointing as you're making the thing, as long as you shoot all the pages and come in roughly around the budget and do it on schedule, hey, at the end of the day, at least you can hand over a not-very-good TV show, but everyone tried...
So the reason we really liked the idea of having some of our — as many of our — writers as possible being there is that it's a live show, and it's being created on the fly. You want to have them in the space as much as possible to be able to sort of guide things where they need to go or take a new bit of information and, on the fly, figure out how to fit that into a narrative that we want to show onscreen.
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