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'Jury Dury: Company Retreat' Casting Director on Building the Ensemble
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'Jury Dury: Company Retreat' Casting Director on Building the Ensemble

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“ Jury Duty ” successfully pulled off its Season 1 conceit, where all but one person are hired actors. (Who can forget Ron Gladden ?) But Season 2 provided new challenges for the show’s producers.

This time around, the show moves away from the courtroom, trying its luck with a “Company Retreat.” The concept is the same: Everyone is a hired actor, except one civilian, Anthony Norman, who is led to believe he’s been hired as a temp at the family-owned hit sauce company known as “Rockin’ Grandmas.”

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Casting director Susie Farris, who returned for “Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat,” knew what she was looking for with her actors: “People who are really quick on their feet.…

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