Cody Heller recalls the stress, nightmares and ultimate rewards of the Emmy-nominated Freevee series centering on one man unaware his surroundings were entirely fake.
to break down how the series found its hero in Gladden, what extensive preparation was needed to pull off the production and why the end result restored her faith in humanity.This is such a unique show, so I have to ask: What does a showrunner’s job on something like this look like?
We had a 10-week writers room, but if we started production [without the writers], I knew it wasn’t going to work. This was going to be a fluid, constantly evolving thing — we wouldn’t have scripts to follow. We’d be working with a “real person,” and we’d have to react and adjust every day based on his decisions. One of the first things I did was fill the writers room with as many potential performers [as possible].
We were terrified. Everyone for real fell in love with Ronald during it; we say this in episode eight, but the actors still keep in touch. Ronald is an amazing guy, and we all cared deeply about him. We never wanted to put him in a bad light or make fun of him. Regardless of all of that, finding out that the past three and a half weeks of your life had been fake? That’s potentially scary.
Marsden is so funny, talented and willing to make fun of himself — willing to sit for hours at a time in a court room with nothing happening in order [for Ronald] to buy the reality. He cared so much about Ronald, and he was always making sure that Ronald was OK. The whole ensemble was like that, but Marsden really was always conscious of that. Ronald really did get upset [about the cake], rightly so, because he was protective of his other jurors.
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