James Marsden

So I was always looking for an opportunity to get in a room and play.

But something like this was so unique, so different and original, and I was enthusiastic about being a part of something like this, but also apprehensive because I didn't know if it was going to work.

And, yeah, I had many reservations.

And the biggest one was...

the wild card of this one human being who's being dropped into this situation that is all fake and manufactured, and what that's going to be like.

But I made it clear that it was important to me that I didn't want to be a part of a prank show.

I was not interested in...

being cruel or mean-spirited at all.

And they said, no, we're not interested in doing that either.

What we're doing is we're creating a hero's journey for somebody.

And what we're surrounding him with are this cast of bizarre, eccentric weirdos, and hopefully carving out a path for him to become the leader at the end and have his 12 Angry Men moment where he

inspires us all and unites us.

And then we pull the curtain back and celebrate him as a human being.

Show him what it was all about.

And hopefully he takes that in stride.

But, you know, who knows how he's going to react.

So the sort of unknown was appealing to me, but it was also terrifying.

You know, to me it was just the idea of lampooning the cliché, you know, entitled, self-absorbed, egocentric Hollywood actor was really exciting to me.

And I could, you know, I could do it as myself and hopefully by the end of it everyone would know that I'm satirizing that character and it's not really me.

There's something about playing someone who...