Did any moment make you break character?
Some of the testimony that the plaintiff's and defendant's lawyers brought up, those characters really broke me because we never saw that part. We weren't privy to those actors coming in and giving their testimonies, so I was watching it as intensely and in shock as everybody else and I was like, "Oh my god, this is crazy." The major thing that broke me is that sometimes we would call each other our real names because we were all just so close, and we all kind of blended together. I would catch myself calling someone their real name and then I'd have to come up with something on the spot to pretend that I was talking about something else.
Is there an improvised line or moment you're proudest of creating for your character?
Everything was pretty much improv, but obviously we had guidelines of what we had to do. There's a scene where James [Marsden] sits next to me [after also getting picked as a jury alternate] and I turn to him and say, "Ooof." He was trying to make fun of me, and I just gave it right back.
Has your life changed since the show came out?
My life has been pretty much the same. There's not people coming up to me and saying they saw me, but I have been getting a lot of texts from family and friends saying they've watched the show and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's crazy because you go into this thing, and it's a small little project and you have no idea what it's gonna be like when it goes out into the ether. Especially with this type of show where we're playing different characters and we're all in on the joke and we're bringing somebody in, there's a plethora of things that can go wrong. Thank god we pulled it off, but it's just a shocker that people enjoyed it because you have no idea how people are gonna receive it.
"It's just a shocker that people enjoyed it because you have no idea how people are gonna receive it."
What was your all-time favorite moment from filming the show?
When we would do the one-on-ones with a producer, the talking-head section of it, they'd ask us questions. It was an intense process, and sometimes we'd be so tired of the whole thing because we filmed during the summer and it was so hot, and we would answer questions to get underneath the skin of the producers just to play around with them a little bit. We had to stay in character as we did that, so it was funny messing around with them and giving them crazy answers and they had to play it off. Looking at Ronald's face, he's like, "What the hell is going on?" Some of those questions and answers made it on the show, too.
The scene where we're at the warehouse and I have to get [Ronald] upstairs to the mannequin part, he didn't wanna go because he was stuck on the rules. I had a thing in my ear with the producers telling me, "You gotta get him up there." I was just sweating bullets like how am I gonna get him up there? That was definitely a challenge. It was fun, but I honestly didn't think that was gonna work because he was not trying to go up there.
