Jerry & Marge Go Large True Story: Are Tyler & Eric Real?
Jerry & Marge Go Large is based on a true story, but it might be unclear if the supporting characters of Tyler and Eric existed in real life like the titular couple. Adapted from the HuffPost article of the same name, the Paramount+ movie depicts the tale of retirees Jerry and Marge Selbee (played in the movie by Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening), who in the early 2000s would pack up their truck and drive across state lines every three weeks to play the Massachusetts lottery — through which they eventually earned close to $27 million thanks to a loophole they discovered.
The central conflict of Jerry & Marge Go Large comes in the form of Tyler and Eric, two arrogant Harvard University students who also notice the lottery discrepancy and choose to exploit it for their financial gain legally. They get help from other students at Harvard, as well as outside investors, and form their own company to make sure everything they are doing is above board. Tyler (played by Generation's Uly Schlesinger), in particular, is portrayed as slimy and cunning, compared to Jerry's calm and generous demeanor.
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Creating drama for a small film is often part of the screenwriting process and may include the invention of characters who never existed in real life in order to keep the story moving. However, in the case of Jerry & Marge Go Large, Tyler and Eric (who is played by Cheech Manohar) are, in fact, based on two actual college students who did most of what's seen in the movie. Their names have been changed, possibly for legal reasons, but the characters are meant to represent James Harvey and Yuran Lu, who attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rather than
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