Think your fan conversations about Apple TV’s “Pluribus” are heated? Try being on the actual series set. “We have healthy, sometimes tongue-in-cheek debates about different questions that the show brings up, whether it’s your personal take on what you would do or what you think your character would do,” star Rhea Seehorn tells the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast.
Of course, this isn’t new for Seehorn on a Vince Gilligan show. She remembers having spirited debates with “Better Call Saul” co-star Bob Odenkirk back in the day. “He would be like, ‘well, obviously Kim thinks blah blah blah,’ and I was like, ‘yeah, well, I don’t think so.’ He’s like, ‘yes, she does,’ and I was like, ‘you can’t make me say she thinks that!’ It’s good to have like different perspectives on the same scene.”
Seehorn credits Gilligan for leaving his stories and characters open to interpretation. “There are times where people are telling me their interpretation of what they think Carol is doing, thinking, or is feeling, that it’s interesting to take in,” Seehorn says. “It’s just a facet that I’m like, ‘oh, that could be interesting for me to explore,’ or sometimes they are saying something that I already was thinking about exploring. And then there’s other things, that I’m like, ‘I’m just gonna let that be your interpretation.'”
