This is fresh air, I'm Terry Gross. James Morrison has had a long career in Hollywood,

playing the romantic interest in many comedies and dramas, but doesn't always end up with the girl.

Recently he's taken on some other kinds of roles. In the HBO series Westworld, he was Teddy,

one of the Android cowboys in the Western-themed Adventure Park that goes wrong.

And he did double duty in the Netflix show Dead To Me, playing semi-identical brothers.

In his new series, Jury Dutie, he has a completely different sort of role, a satirical version

of himself. Morrison spoke with our producer, Sam Brigger. The new show, Jury Dutie,

available on Amazon FreeVee, has its roots in the old TV show Candid Camera,

where surprising and funny things happen to unwitting bystanders and hidden cameras captured

their reactions. In Jury Dutie, a regular guy named Ronald Gladden has agreed to participate in

a documentary about the experience of being a juror. He goes to the LA courtroom,

as picked as the jury for person, and follows along the court proceedings.

There's a small film crew following him and the other jurors around.

What Ronald doesn't know is that the whole thing is fake. The entire courthouse has been fitted

with hidden cameras, and everyone there except him is an actor. The other jurors, the judge,

the lawyers, the plaintiff, the bailiff, everybody. And a lot of them are acting really weird and

doing funny things. It's all highly improvised. The camera captures Ronald trying to navigate

these strange people in circumstances, and he does so amazingly well, with kindness and grace.

Even when he finds out he's going to be sequestered for two weeks with his fellow jurors at a hotel.

Jury Dutie might have been a cruel show, but it's not. Ronald is not the butt of an elaborate

joke. He's actually the hero of the show. The only person he recognizes among the other jurors

is the actor James Marston, who's also been summoned for jury duty. This James Marston is a self-absorbed

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