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"When I was first approached with the idea for this project, I said, 'Hey, I don't want to do anything that's mean, or torturing someone, or making fun of someone, or just punching down the whole time.' You can't do that for three weeks, even if you thought you picked someone who deserved it. And I was assured that everyone was on the same page. No one wanted to do that. And it's true. Our showrunner, our producers, our writers: Everyone was on the same page. We wanted to surround a good person with crazy people making crazy choices," said director Jake Szymanski. 

"Ronald just surpassed all of our expectations. How he cared about people and how he reacted to people: He was better than we ever could have hoped," he added. 

Alexis Sampietro, who's worked on several of Sacha Baron Cohen's projects, also had an inkling that Ronald would be the perfect choice.