But in the movie business, most actors have periods of weeks or months between movie shootings where they are not working at all. So it would be quite reasonable for them to request a postponement until one of those times, and quite reasonable for the court people to agree to it.
In CT you can ask for a postponement for virtually any reason. I don’t even think I had to state a reason to postpone to the summer when I wasn’t teaching. I simply had to suggest an alternate date.
Jamie Moyer, then a pitcher for the Seattle Mariners was called for jury duty the same time I was. He was dismissed due to the fact he was scheduled to leave on a road trip in a couple days.
When Diane Wiest played the districty attorney on Law & Order she was called for jury duty. I’m pretty sure she served on the jury.
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Answer: Just about every trial lawyer.
A postponement is no big deal. I asked for and was granted a postponement because I had an overseas business trip scheduled the following week. I told them that I expected to be gone for around six weeks and they gave me a two month postponement. An actor could ask for one until the shooting was scheduled to be completed.
I’ll see your Attorney General and raise you a Supreme Court Justice:
I’m also fairly certain I remember david Souter being called for jury duty about 4 or 5 years ago, although I couldn’t dig up any news articles on it (he was struck from the jury).
How about a sitting US president? Obama was called in 2010, “but his attorney, Robert F. Bauer, informed the court a few weeks ago that he would not be able to make it.”
And GWB was called in 2005. He also declined.
When I did the voir dire thingy a few years ago, there was a gent who asked to be excused because he was simultaneously on call to be a witness at another trial down the hall, and might be called at any time that week.
The judge didn’t excuse him. Instead, he (the judge) said he’d talk to the other judge and coordinate with him on scheduling the guy.
I’ll bet that guy thought he had the perfect excuse to get out of jury duty.
But what if a zombie gets called for jury duty?
+1 
I’m sure that failing to strike Perry would be a bad career move.
Brad Pitt showed up for jury duty and was selected to serve on a jury.
My mom was actually told in the meeting that it was illegal to do so.
That didn’t stop her employer from sending a letter that got her excused, to my mother’s chagrin, as it would have been a pay increase for much less strenuous work.
A friend of mine is a sitting Federal judge (U.S. District Court for the Southern District). He got a jury call for state court (NY Supreme), and ended up on a jury in a civil trial.
He didn’t mind serving on the jury, but did tell me that he thought it wasn’t a good idea to put him (or judges in general) on juries, because he felt that the other jurors tended to defer to him when they found out he was a judge, and he believed that juries weren’t supposed to work that way – that they shouldn’t defer to him.