How to Pull Off a Real-Life Mockumentary

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Matt is joined by Ronald Gladden, the star of Amazon Freevee’s new hit series ‘Jury Duty,’ as well as the director of the show, Jake Szymanski. They go through the process of creating the show, how Jake managed to direct the actors on set without breaking the illusion, Ronald’s thoughts after learning it was all a show, whether this type of show could be replicated, and more. Matt finishes the show by making a prediction about the newly rebranded streaming service, ‘Max.’ For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Ronald Gladden & Jake Szymanski Producer: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You may find this hard to believe, but 60 songs that explain the 90s.
0:04.5	America's favorite poorly named music podcast is back, with 30 more songs than 120 songs total.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Rob Harvilla, here to bring you more shrewd musical analysis, poignant nostalgic
0:16.9	reveries, crude personal anecdotes, and rad special guests, all with even less restraint than usual.
0:24.7	Join us once more on 60 Saus that explain the 90s every Wednesday on Spotify.
0:33.5	It is Wednesday, May 24th.
0:36.5	We don't have a lot of in-front-of-the-camera talent on the town, or even that many directors.
0:41.5	But we make exceptions for people doing innovative things, stuff that truly is interesting and impactful on the business of entertainment.
0:48.5	I recently watched a new show on Amazon's Freebie Service.
0:52.0	That's their fast channel.
0:53.5	It's pretty unique, And it made me instantly
0:55.5	want to know how they pulled it off, whether it could be replicable. It's called jury duty.
0:59.6	And if you haven't heard of it, the premise is it's a docu-series about serving on a civil jury,
1:04.5	except it's not. Everyone involved, the judge, the litigants, the lawyers, all the jurors
1:10.0	themselves is an actor. They've even got
1:12.5	James Marsden playing a narcissistic version of himself on jury duty. Everyone's an actor except
1:17.5	one dude, a regular guy who thinks he's signed up to be filmed for a documentary on the judicial
1:22.5	process. It's a great premise in theory, but entirely dependent on two things.
1:30.6	Execution without any big mistakes that ruin the whole thing.
1:34.2	This guy's got to believe that everything is real during this trial.
1:38.6	And a very likable and a little gullible central figure.
1:40.2	Jury duty has both.
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