James Marsden is reflecting on the challenges of filming Jury Duty.

During a recent episode of Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, Marsden, 51, opened up about his experience filming the mockumentary and how it differed from his past projects. Explaining that he was tempted at times to blow his cover to the unassuming Ronald Gladden, Marsden said he was warned about the difficulty of the fake reality show.

“I remember having this conversation with one of the producers who had also worked on Borat, all of Sacha [Baron Cohen]’s stuff,” the actor explained. “And he was like, ‘If you’re a really good guy, this might not be for you.’ And he didn’t say that directly at me, but it was kinda like, this is f—ing hard, how you navigate getting the comedy people actually wanna see. Yes, it’s at the expense of somebody. The nature of the show is that.”

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One week after the 2025 inauguration, America welcomed another new president to the Oval Office: James Marsden.

While the 51-year-old actor isn’t leading the nation off-screen in Washington, D.C., you can catch him calling the country’s shots as President Cal Bradford in Paradise, Hulu‘s new political thriller from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman.

The idea for the murder mystery series with a major twist predates Fogelman’s popular NBC family drama, but it also stars This Is Us alum Sterling K. Brown as Xavier Collins, a secret service agent to Marsden’s character, and the main suspect in his assassination. Set in a community populated by the world’s most prominent people (including characters played by Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Jon Beavers, and Krys Marshall) Paradise required a specific set of skills to nail its unconventional portrait of a Commander-in-Chief navigating unique circumstances. Right away, Fogelman knew that Marsden was the perfect man for the job.

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Over his 30-year career so far, Emmy-nominated actor James Marsden has consistently grabbed our full attention with his many memorable on-screen performances. From playing Cyclops in the X-Men films and “the other man” Lon Hammond in The Notebook to Corny Collins in Hairspray, Prince Edward in the Enchanted films and Teddy Flood on the Westworld series, Marsden, 51, has built quite the impressive career for himself, with plenty of longevity, something many working actors could only dream of happening.

Fresh off of his third box office hit Sonic the Hedgehog film, Marsden can now be seen in the new Hulu series, Paradise, where he plays the President of the United States. Created by This Is Us mastermind Dan Fogelman and co-starring Sterling K. Brown and Julianne Nicholson, Paradise is a wildly gripping political thriller, with several twists and turns, that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Knowing that Marsden is no stranger to playing a President, as he previously played John F. Kennedy in Lee Daniels’ 2013 film The Butler, I wondered what it was about his Paradise character, President Cal Bradford, that intrigued him in making this his next role to take on.

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Jimmy attended the Los Angeles premiere of Paramount’s “Sonic The Hedgehog 3” at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. I’ve uploaded 57 HQ photos from this event to the gallery.

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Hulu dropped the trailer for “Paradise,” its upcoming drama featuring the reunion of Sterling K. Brown and “This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman, on Thursday, revealing a Jan. 28 premiere date and teasing the insidious plot of the series centered around a presidential murder.

Per Hulu, “‘Paradise’ is set in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world’s most prominent individuals. But this tranquility explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds.”

In the “Paradise” trailer, Brown is revealed to play Xavier Collins, head of security for President Cal Bradford (played by James Marsden). When Xavier finds Cal dead one morning and is discovered to be the last person to have seen the president alive, he’s questioned by the authorities who appear to doubt his relationship with the commander in chief to the point where he needs to take a polygraph test.

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Coming off his Emmy nomination for Jury Duty, James Marsden has signed off as a lead opposite Sterling K. Brown in Dan Fogelman’s upcoming Hulu series. Also cast as series regulars in the untitled project are Emmy winner Julianne Nicholson and Sarah Shahi.

The premise of the drama from the This Is Us creator has been kept a secret but basic information about the characters Marsden, Nicholson and Shahi are playing provides a glimpse into the world it is set in.

Marsden will play the President. Nicholson’s character is a political force/power player behind the scenes, while Shahi plays a therapist to those in power with secrets of her own.

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James Marsden was spotted kissing a Dutch model named Frederique Brons while enjoying a smoke break outside a New York City hotel.

The 50 year-old actor, who has three children, leaned over and smooched the 25-year-old model on the lips on Wednesday night in the Big Apple.

James, a father of three, and Frederique stood really close talking and smoking cigarettes.

The Enchanted actor, who turned 50 last month with a star-studded bash in Beverly Hills, wore a black T-shirt with matching trousers, adding a sweater placed over his shoulders.

Frederique also wore black trousers with a coordinating jacket, while carrying a studded bag.

The blonde model, who hails from Amsterdam, Netherlands, grinned at the movie star in between smoking.

The duo couldn’t stop laughing during their chat outside a hotel side door.

Frederique was born on June 21, 1998 in the Netherlands, standing 5 feet 10 inches.

She is represented by two agencies: Skins Model Management for Amsterdam, and Muse Models in New York City.

The X-Men star has three children: he shares kids son Jack, 22, and daughter Mary, 18, with ex-wife Lisa Linde.

The Westworld actor also has son William, 11, with ex-girlfriend model Rose Costa, 35; they briefly dated before she became pregnant with his child – months after James split from wife Lisa.

James and Lisa were married from 2000 until they split in 2011.

Source: Daily Mail

James Marsden’s 50th birthday bash took the cake — literally — with a candlelit dessert featuring a throwback photo of the star in his modeling days.

The Emmy-nominated actor and a bunch of other celebs piled into the Sheats-Goldstein Residence in L.A. Monday to celebrate Marsden’s milestone.

Bold-faced names included Tessa Thompson, Woody Harrelson, Natasha Lyonne, Ben Barnes and Aaron Paul. Ronald Gladden, who costarred with Marsden on the popular Amazon Freevee show “Jury Duty,” also made a cameo.

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The official start of fall is days away, and Zegna and The Elder Statesman made sure a select set of Los Angeles VIPs are armed and ready with a new collection of cozy cashmere thanks to a pair of parties on Wednesday evening.

Following a launch in Paris earlier this year, the two brands teamed to unveil the wares locally, first during an outdoor bash at West Hollywood luxury hideaway Maxfield in the late afternoon. The festivities continued in the evening at a private residence in the Hollywood Hills designed by modernist architect Richard Neutra. Zegna artistic director Alessandro Sartori and The Elder Statesman founder and CEO Greg Chait made the rounds at both to chat up the Oasi Cashmere collab which merges the sensibilities of their respective companies by combining Zegna’s eye for the finest in materials with Elder Statesman’s bold and eye-catching prints.

The latter bash proved to be a starry gathering that hosted James Marsden, Evan Peters, Kyle MacLachlan, John Cho, Marco Pigossi, Henry Zaga, Laz Alonso, Joseph Lee, Jessica Hart and Lewis Tan along with basketball stars Shareef O’Neal and Jalen Green. Lee, who caught the runway presentation in Europe, was outfitted in the new line and said it was so cozy he wanted “to snuggle everything.”

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The party’s just getting started for Jury Duty stars James Marsden and Ronald Gladden.

On Wednesday, nominations were announced for the 2023 Emmy Awards, and Amazon Freevee’s surprise hit comedy picked up four nods: Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Marsden, Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. Once Marsden found out that he earned his first-ever Emmy nomination for playing a fictionalized version of himself, he immediately called up his onscreen-turned-IRL BFF Gladden to celebrate the news.

“Once I heard him pick up the phone, I just kind of yelled as loud as I could,” Marsden tells EW with a laugh just a few hours after nominations were announced. “It was just gibberish, I don’t think I was even speaking English. And he started yelling too. It was just like two drunk college buddies.”

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