Celebrities? When was the last time politicians served jury duty? When was the last time they were even summoned?
David Letterman had jury duty once and wouldn’t shut up about it for several episodes of his show (he actually liked it.)
If you have job and financial security, it could be an interesting change of pace for a bit.
Im salaried, fuck it. Unfortunately my ADHD ass missed my last two jury summons that I had every intention of going to so they don’t ask me anymore. At least they didn’t arrest me 😅
Sheah, you’re definitely lucky they didn’t suspend you driver’s license or something… or did they? I guess you won’t know until you get pulled over and find out there’s a $10k bench warrant on you.
Oh god imagine Tom Hanks sitting on your trial. I’d just plead guilty out of shame of letting America’s dad down.
One thing that concerns me about celebs on juries is that their compatriots on the jury might ascribe more power / logic to their takes because of their authority / celebrity as a public figure. “If Tom Hanks thinks so, he must be right…” “Oprah tells me what to read and gives away cars; how could she be wrong?”
Realistically, seeing someone in a setting you do not expect them to be in would make you less likely to recognize them, so it would be less “Hey, Williem Dafoe is in my jury” and more “Hey, that guy in my jury kind of looks like the actor from Spider-man”.
Think of it this way, if Williem Dafoe shows up at say, a tech conference, and went around telling everyone “I’m esteemed Academy Award nominated character actor Williem Dafoe”, most people there are going to think:“Why is there a Williem Dafoe impersonator at this conference?” instead of “Why is Williem Dafoe here?”
Hiding in plain sight.
It pains me to see you refer to William Dafoe as “that actor from Spider-Man”.
It’s his major recent work in public eye, plus the MCU is huge in terms of pop culture, so I’m using this as an example of how he might currently be recognized in public as, not that it is what he is best known for.
(I don’t want to talk about “Poor Things”… )
To add to your statement: a few years ago, Henry Cavill went to Times Square in NYC wearing a shirt with the Superman S, and just hung out around signs for Man of Steel, and pretty much nobody recognized him (or if they did, they didn’t let it be known).
