May 15, 2023 • 7 mins
Trisha LaFache talks new Amazon series 'Jury Duty' and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I had on with Mario Lopez w al and Mario
Lopez joining me noll on zoom from Amazon's Jury Duty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Actress Trisha Lafox, Welcome to the show. How are you.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm great, Thank you, Mario. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm doing well. Thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Congrats on Jury Duty getting a lot of buzz right now.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You surprised about how big it's become so quickly, Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Because whenever I've never been a part of something this big,
And yeah, I just don't think you ever think that
something's going to catch down like that. But I will
say I had no idea what I was signing up for.
But then when I first saw, in fact my first
meeting with our director Jake Simanski, he said, do you
know what the show is? And I was like, no,
I have no idea. Would you mind telling me? And
(00:45):
it was that we were off racist But when I
got the first outline, I read it and I said,
oh my god, like if anyone sees this, everyone's going
to see it. I just knew, but still no, do
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Of course, for those may not be familiar, talk about
the premise.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So the premise is that the creators of the Office,
le Eisenberg and Jean Steppinski had an idea to take
what you know, some may think is similar to Joe
Schmo or to the rehearsal, but kind of flip that
prank idea and see if it would be possible to
(01:26):
do a hero's journey where the main guy would be
an everyman kind of like a John Krasinski in the
Office or Dave Folean news Radio, and put a bunch
of weirdos around him, and you know, see if we
could get him to do the right thing by not
really by really just being himself. But they gave it
(01:46):
to our showrunner Cody Heller and our executives Andrew Weinberg
and Nicholas Hatton, and they built this amazing cast of
improv actors, eleven of them. Well, who are the jurors
improv actors James Marsden, celebrity James Marsden, who I know
you met with the other day. And also this guy
(02:08):
Ronald Ladden who kind of just finished making the magic.
And my part is I populate the courtroom where in
our courtroom, which I wonder if we can maybe be
in the Guinness Book of World Records. I'm not sure,
but all three of the actors who were playing legal
(02:28):
professionals were at one point in their lives legal professionals.
That's very cool.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I talk about original and a clever premise, and there
were so many ways it could have gone south, right,
and then what do you do at that point? But
fortunately that that did not happen, and you were one
of the people who actually does have legal experience, right.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yes. I actually went to law school wanting to be
in the arts. And my first week in law school
I met a kid who was like, yeah, I have
an agent because I went to grow up the law school.
So I was in New York City and I was like, well,
if this jerk off get an agian, I think I
could probably get me a too. So I did, and
for a really long time I pursued both and different avenues.
(03:10):
I end up leaning more towards entertainment. But when I
got this audition, I was like, oh my god, if
I don't book this job, I should have quit fifteen
years ago, you know what I mean. Way to have
my two worlds, you know, intersect.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, of course, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
From an actress point of view, is it more like
a stage performance? Than a TV show. I got imagine
like you're doing theater because you only get one take, right,
It's not you can you get coverage and what have you?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
No zero. I walk into the court with my briefcase
and I'm Dad bra and I'm objection your honor and
sidebar may we approach, you know, and just calling my
witnesses and presenting my case and trying not to make
eye contact with Ronald, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And there's sort of an element of like undercover work too,
like like you're doing a sting, right, It's got to
have that sort of sort of feel to it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yes, it does. And you know, because our creators are
so kind hearted and we're really really dedicated to not
having it be a prank show and having us be
the butt of the joke and him be the good guy.
There was so much conversation about like how is he feeling.
We would have a morning meeting and everybody would say like, okay,
(04:20):
well this made him a little uncomfortable yesterday, and not
just we don't want him to find out, but really
and genuinely we don't want to upset him, right, So,
I mean, how often do you get that? Like it was?
It was so many layers of yes, covert, and you know,
people would ask me like how I don't didn't break
and granted I'm the straight man, but also I'm super competitive.
(04:44):
So I was supposed to be the good lawyer, and
I was supposed to be a good lawyer in his eyes.
So because they were interviewing at the end of the day,
I knew if he was going to say issues. So
I would get in the courtroom and be like, this
is my you know, witness, I'm asking you questions. Here's
my evidence, you know, and be really like, yes, so
he defecated in his pants, But there's nothing funny about
(05:04):
it to me, because even though it was so silly,
I was trying to put out a.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Good da It's great, it's great.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Do you think this is something that could be recreated?
Like could there be a season two? Or is the
cat out of the bag?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Now? I am sure from what I've heard, you know,
they'd love to do a season two, but probably in
a different world, not necessarily a jury situation. I do
think that, you know, when something people love something that's
so it's like this so much it's hard to put
the train back in the station. You know, you don't
(05:39):
want to just call it a day, So I'm guessing
that they will come up with something. Whether we get
to be a part of it, of course, I would
love to, but you know, I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I see, uh, I see James Morris on my gym
all the time. The way you're looking, good man, I
just came from anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'm always not when I get here, beauty of doing
a radio real nice guy?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
How was how was how much was he acting? I
should say? And how much do you think that was
really him?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I think quite a bit. I think James is a sweetheart.
You know, my experience with him has been really lovely,
and he was definitely one of the ones who was
much more concerned about how Ronald was feeling. Because I'm
in the courtroom and I'm kind of like, you know,
a tough girl from New York. I'm like, he's gonna
want a hundred thousand dollars, He's going to be just stot.
(06:30):
But I knew that they were forming real relationships. I
knew that everyone really cared about him, and yes, it
was terrifying during the reveal, but I just had a
feeling that afterwards he would get that you know everybody.
The relationships that he experienced were real, the case was fake,
and a lot of the high tens were fake. But
he plassed with flying colors. So who does it want
(06:52):
to look like the good guy?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You know what I mean exactly? And the guy was
so nice too, very tall. I remember, very very very
talk exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
We can you curse on the show? Sure? He cast
me short ass deb because my character's name is Deborah.
I'm like, that's rude. He's like, well, once you have
a characters a name, that's my nickname six, So I'm
short ass that maam?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, short ass deb Thank you so much for taking
the time and listen. You can watch Jury Duty now
on Amazon.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Thank you so much for checking here, Trisha. Mario you
got it, you too. Take care with Mario Lopez
I had on with Mario Lopez w al and Mario
Lopez joining me noll on zoom from Amazon's Jury Duty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Actress Trisha Lafox, Welcome to the show. How are you.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm great, Thank you, Mario. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm doing well. Thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Congrats on Jury Duty getting a lot of buzz right now.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You surprised about how big it's become so quickly, Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Because whenever I've never been a part of something this big,
And yeah, I just don't think you ever think that
something's going to catch down like that. But I will
say I had no idea what I was signing up for.
But then when I first saw, in fact my first
meeting with our director Jake Simanski, he said, do you
know what the show is? And I was like, no,
I have no idea. Would you mind telling me? And
(00:45):
it was that we were off racist But when I
got the first outline, I read it and I said,
oh my god, like if anyone sees this, everyone's going
to see it. I just knew, but still no, do
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Of course, for those may not be familiar, talk about
the premise.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So the premise is that the creators of the Office,
le Eisenberg and Jean Steppinski had an idea to take
what you know, some may think is similar to Joe
Schmo or to the rehearsal, but kind of flip that
prank idea and see if it would be possible to
(01:26):
do a hero's journey where the main guy would be
an everyman kind of like a John Krasinski in the
Office or Dave Folean news Radio, and put a bunch
of weirdos around him, and you know, see if we
could get him to do the right thing by not
really by really just being himself. But they gave it
(01:46):
to our showrunner Cody Heller and our executives Andrew Weinberg
and Nicholas Hatton, and they built this amazing cast of
improv actors, eleven of them. Well, who are the jurors
improv actors James Marsden, celebrity James Marsden, who I know
you met with the other day. And also this guy
(02:08):
Ronald Ladden who kind of just finished making the magic.
And my part is I populate the courtroom where in
our courtroom, which I wonder if we can maybe be
in the Guinness Book of World Records. I'm not sure,
but all three of the actors who were playing legal
(02:28):
professionals were at one point in their lives legal professionals.
That's very cool.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I talk about original and a clever premise, and there
were so many ways it could have gone south, right,
and then what do you do at that point? But
fortunately that that did not happen, and you were one
of the people who actually does have legal experience, right.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yes. I actually went to law school wanting to be
in the arts. And my first week in law school
I met a kid who was like, yeah, I have
an agent because I went to grow up the law school.
So I was in New York City and I was like, well,
if this jerk off get an agian, I think I
could probably get me a too. So I did, and
for a really long time I pursued both and different avenues.
(03:10):
I end up leaning more towards entertainment. But when I
got this audition, I was like, oh my god, if
I don't book this job, I should have quit fifteen
years ago, you know what I mean. Way to have
my two worlds, you know, intersect.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, of course, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
From an actress point of view, is it more like
a stage performance? Than a TV show. I got imagine
like you're doing theater because you only get one take, right,
It's not you can you get coverage and what have you?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
No zero. I walk into the court with my briefcase
and I'm Dad bra and I'm objection your honor and
sidebar may we approach, you know, and just calling my
witnesses and presenting my case and trying not to make
eye contact with Ronald, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And there's sort of an element of like undercover work too,
like like you're doing a sting, right, It's got to
have that sort of sort of feel to it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yes, it does. And you know, because our creators are
so kind hearted and we're really really dedicated to not
having it be a prank show and having us be
the butt of the joke and him be the good guy.
There was so much conversation about like how is he feeling.
We would have a morning meeting and everybody would say like, okay,
(04:20):
well this made him a little uncomfortable yesterday, and not
just we don't want him to find out, but really
and genuinely we don't want to upset him, right, So,
I mean, how often do you get that? Like it was?
It was so many layers of yes, covert, and you know,
people would ask me like how I don't didn't break
and granted I'm the straight man, but also I'm super competitive.
(04:44):
So I was supposed to be the good lawyer, and
I was supposed to be a good lawyer in his eyes.
So because they were interviewing at the end of the day,
I knew if he was going to say issues. So
I would get in the courtroom and be like, this
is my you know, witness, I'm asking you questions. Here's
my evidence, you know, and be really like, yes, so
he defecated in his pants, But there's nothing funny about
(05:04):
it to me, because even though it was so silly,
I was trying to put out a.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Good da It's great, it's great.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Do you think this is something that could be recreated?
Like could there be a season two? Or is the
cat out of the bag?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Now? I am sure from what I've heard, you know,
they'd love to do a season two, but probably in
a different world, not necessarily a jury situation. I do
think that, you know, when something people love something that's
so it's like this so much it's hard to put
the train back in the station. You know, you don't
(05:39):
want to just call it a day, So I'm guessing
that they will come up with something. Whether we get
to be a part of it, of course, I would
love to, but you know, I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I see, uh, I see James Morris on my gym
all the time. The way you're looking, good man, I
just came from anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'm always not when I get here, beauty of doing
a radio real nice guy?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
How was how was how much was he acting? I
should say? And how much do you think that was
really him?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I think quite a bit. I think James is a sweetheart.
You know, my experience with him has been really lovely,
and he was definitely one of the ones who was
much more concerned about how Ronald was feeling. Because I'm
in the courtroom and I'm kind of like, you know,
a tough girl from New York. I'm like, he's gonna
want a hundred thousand dollars, He's going to be just stot.
(06:30):
But I knew that they were forming real relationships. I
knew that everyone really cared about him, and yes, it
was terrifying during the reveal, but I just had a
feeling that afterwards he would get that you know everybody.
The relationships that he experienced were real, the case was fake,
and a lot of the high tens were fake. But
he plassed with flying colors. So who does it want
(06:52):
to look like the good guy?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You know what I mean exactly? And the guy was
so nice too, very tall. I remember, very very very
talk exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
We can you curse on the show? Sure? He cast
me short ass deb because my character's name is Deborah.
I'm like, that's rude. He's like, well, once you have
a characters a name, that's my nickname six, So I'm
short ass that maam?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, short ass deb Thank you so much for taking
the time and listen. You can watch Jury Duty now
on Amazon.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Thank you so much for checking here, Trisha. Mario you
got it, you too. Take care with Mario Lopez
Host
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