I’m definitely enjoying it but truthfully nothing really changed until a couple of days ago, like my social media presence grew and that was really about it. I can only imagine that the past few days have been some of the craziest in your life. When he refuses, Marsden steps in - a scene so good that even Gladden admits he wishes it were real.įollowing the show’s finale, Variety spoke to Gladden about his newfound fame, his relationship with the “Jury Duty” cast and his plans for the future. One of the best scenes occurs when Gladden is asked to jump on the bed while two other jurors, Noah (Leeper) and Jeannie (Edy Modica), have sex in an act called soaking. When juror Ken, played by Ron Song, loses $2,000 to Gladden in a Korean gambling game he’s never played before, Gladden refuses to accept the money. Instead, he shows him the movie “A Bug’s Life” in their hotel room later that night to make him feel better about his idiosyncrasies.

His fans are arguably even more obsessed on TikTok, where a hashtag of his name, #RonaldGladden, boasts more than 28 million views, filled with videos dubbing him as the “perfect example of the female gaze” and thirsting over his good-natured reactions to the increasingly absurd situations thrown at him.įor example, when Brown, who plays oddball juror Todd, shows up to court with crutches attached to his legs, a contraption he calls chair pants or “chants,” Gladden doesn’t laugh behind his back. Gladden says he’s fielding thousands of DMs on Instagram, where his follower count has grown from a few hundred to 120,000 since the show aired. “I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t a little bit nervous about all this attention,” Gladden tells Variety over a Zoom call from a Los Angeles hotel, where he’s currently on a press tour for the show alongside fellow jurors James Marsden, David Brown and Mekki Leeper and creators Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (the producers behind “Bad Trip” and “The Office”) “Obviously, I’ve never experienced this type of recognition before.”

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