Tag: James Marsden
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New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week
It’s not always easy to find out which movies are hitting theaters each week, especially as the Hollywood strikes led to many release date changes. With the WGA strike resolved and awards season heating up, there are more dramas and prestige productions in theaters for the next few months. Meanwhile October will bring a wealth…
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James Marsden On His ‘Jury Duty’ Role of a Lifetime and the Day He ‘Lost It’ Laughing
Though his long career has been full of box office hits, critically acclaimed projects and some truly scene-stealing performances, James Marsden landed the role of a lifetime on the Amazon Freevee series “Jury Duty” playing … James Marsden.It is, however, an exaggerated (we hope) version of himself, due to the premise of the show —…
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X-Men: The Last Stand Almost Forced James Marsden To Choose Between Two Superhero Movies
Does James Marsden’s agent have something against him? For the majority of his career, Marsden has played characters that are the equivalent of tapioca pudding. He was the nice guy who Rachel McAdams dumps for Ryan Gosling in “The Notebook.” Then he was the nice guy Lois Lane hooked up with while Superman was away…
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‘Jury Duty’: Cody Heller on the Magic of Ronald Gladden
When it comes to the main reason why Amazon Prime Video’s Emmy-nominated comedy series Jury Duty worked, no one can deny that it came down to Ronald Gladden. The man at the center of the series, who didn’t even know it, was undoubtedly the best part of the production. While everyone surrounding him was a…
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Showrunner Cody Heller on the Trials and Tribulations of Making ‘Jury Duty’
[Editor’s note: The following contains major spoilers about Jury Duty.]In all honesty, Jury Duty never should have worked. The documentary-style comedy series chronicling the inner workings of an American jury trial was actually entirely fake, with only one particular juror, Ronald Gladden, not let in on the joke. Everyone around him, including the other jurors,…
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Sorry Ryan Gosling, This Actor Invented Kenergy Way Before ‘Barbie’
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for BarbieIf there’s anything to take away from the massively successful Barbie movie, it’s that the patriarchy sucks, Greta Gerwig is amazing, and Kenergy is a powerful, radiating force capable of both wonderful hilarity and horribly misguided chivalry. While there’s very little known about Kenergy, we learned from Barbie…
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‘Jury Duty’ Doesn’t Need a Second Season
Nobody can deny that Jury Duty is one of the most unexpectedly heartwarming shows we’ve been given in recent years. The semi-scripted smash-hit centers on Ronald Gladden, an unsuspecting civilian who signs on to do a documentary about jury duty, not knowing that every other jury member is a paid actor. The other “jurors,” including…