Rhea Seehorn says season one of Pluribus felt like shooting one long film, which makes picking a favorite scene a real challenge. "I feel like I shot a nine-hour movie," she told Rich. "I have a hard time even remembering which episodes are which."
Rich came in as a fan. He admitted that the first episode was so gripping he sometimes had to watch it back twice, and his pick for the most incredible scene is when the hive reaches out to Seehorn's character through the television set and she calls the number on the screen. Rich loved that, for a while, viewers could actually call that number and speak to the hive themselves. "I love that sort of stuff," he said.
So what are Seehorn's favorites? She started with the pilot, which she called "like a movie onto itself" and "just incredible to shoot." From there, she rattled off a list. She loves the grenade scene. She loves the voice translation scene with the character played by "the brilliant Carlos Manuel Vesga," where they try to use a phone to translate everything back and forth. "It looks sort of like a crazy beautiful painting too, with this pink umbrella out in the desert," she said.
She also singled out her Vegas material with Diabate, played by Samba Schutte, and the irritation her character felt when she thought she finally had a major secret to reveal to him. "And he's like, 'Yeah, I already knew. It's not a big deal,'" Seehorn said.
Her real answer, though, was the scenes where she is alone on screen. Except, she insisted, she never is. "I'm doing this elaborate dance," she explained. The first partner is the audience. "In those moments they are my confidant," she said. "I'm taking them down the rabbit hole and telling them a story, and Vince expects the same amount of storytelling with no dialogue as he does with dialogue."
The second partner is the crew. Seehorn said most of them were also on Better Call Saul, so she has worked with them for 12 or 13 years. "We are creating these scenes together," she said. "When people are like, 'What is it like to just walk out there and do it by yourself?' I said, 'I'm not by myself.'"
Rich told her he can't wait for season two and that he is "1,000% rooting" for her character to stand her ground. He wondered if she ends up as the last individual on planet Earth. "I don't know," Seehorn said, giving away nothing.
Then she turned the tables. She wanted to know if Rich would watch and judge her golf swing. She admitted she started sweating a little when the conversation turned to people golfing badly on screen. Rich apologized for getting so caught up in Pluribus. "I know you're here to promote Stick," he said.
Seehorn said everyone on Stick is great at golf, though the production had to be careful any time there were golf carts near Owen while shooting on courses in and around Los Angeles. Rich added a full circle story of his own, from when he played himself on the set of CSI Miami. Rex, he said, drove around in his own golf cart with Texas Longhorns horns on the front. Seehorn said that did not make it to Stick, but she raved about working with him. "I love him so much though. We had a blast," she said, calling his role a very different one.
Season two of Stick premieres Wednesday, November 4 on Apple TV with two episodes.
Watch the full interview with Rhea Seehorn on The Rich Eisen Show, streaming live on Disney+ weekdays Noon-3PM ET.
Adapted from the original segment on The Rich Eisen Show. How we cover the show.