Marsden mentioned the Los Angeles courtroom the place he served jury obligation additionally had a wall filled with headshots that includes celebrities who had served jury obligation there earlier than
James Marsden had fairly the distinctive expertise serving on jury obligation.
In an unique interview with PEOPLE about his new Amazon Freevee sequence Jury Responsibility, the 49-year-old actor mentioned his personal actual life expertise serving on the jury of a Los Angeles courtroom.
“I simply served as soon as earlier than and it was a weird expertise as a result of it was right here in L.A., and I walked into the courtroom and there was a wall of headshots of actors who’ve served jury obligation earlier than — in a authorities constructing!” mentioned Marsden, who performs a heightened model of himself and a member of the jury within the new docu-style comedy.
“I used to be considering in my thoughts, ‘Nicely, if anyone acknowledges me, then possibly I might be a distraction,'” he added throughout his PEOPLE in 10 interview. “I do not know. I wasn’t actually attempting to get off jury obligation.”
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To Marsden’s shock, he finally did turn into a distraction within the courthouse when one of many attorneys took a second to reward his work in the midst of the trial.
“One of many attorneys’ opening arguments – in the midst of a gap argument, he turned to me and he goes, ‘And I’ve beloved every part you have executed,'” Marsden recalled, including that the trial was for “an eviction case or one thing.”
He joked that the interplay made him wish to say, “Decide, I ought to go,” however then remembered how “it was a courthouse with a wall filled with headshots so, they’re gonna love that.”
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Whereas the lawyer could have been impressed by Marsden’s lengthy record of credit — which incorporates movies like The Pocket book, Enchanted, Hairspray, X-Males and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, in addition to TV sequence Useless to Me and Westworld — Marsden’s three children are lower than impressed by it, the actor beforehand informed PEOPLE.
“My children have at all times been in the easiest way, sort of splendidly underwhelmed with what I do,” he joked in February. “They assume it is cool they usually’re happy with me, however… I am Dad. They prefer to me to be Dad.”
Nevertheless the Useless to Me star — who shares son Jack, 22, and daughter Mary, 17, with ex-wife Lisa Linde, and son William, 10, with ex Rose Costa — mentioned at the very least one in every of his children is considering following his footsteps into present enterprise.
“My daughter has [expressed interest], however my boys, not but. Not to date,” Marsden shared. “My daughter is a really, very gifted younger girl, and so we’ll see. We’ll see. I would not discourage them for positive.”
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