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Rhea Seehorn

👤 Speaker
404 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

And as you said, there's this idea of anger can be, you know,

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

a miasma almost that like can spread.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

And we've all seen like horrible things can happen when you just are riling people up with, you know, frothing at the mouth with anger about things and negativity.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

But at the same time,

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

It is a necessary emotion, which I think is one of the arguments in the show that I side with of the idea that all of the emotions are important, not just happiness.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

But I had asked Vincent, he wasn't coming at it from an angle of particularly a woman being angry, but because I'm a woman playing the role, that I paused a lot thinking about that because...

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

I do think that I have grown up in a world that – maybe it's on me, but it felt as though I was taught that anger was unpalatable specifically from females and that I should find a way to –

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

make it palatable, make my requests palatable and not express a lot of anger.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

When I was much younger, I would scream it as a teenager, you know, screaming, yelling, like the typical arguments you have over hairspray and idiotic things at home as a teenager.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

But plus it was my parents were divorced.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

And so it was a household of three women, my mom and my sister and I. So there were actually a lot of hairspray arguments.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

And

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

But, you know, you kind of grow out of this complete temperamental, just I'm going to spew anything I want coming out of my mouth and you get out into the real world.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

And it did feel like,

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

And it's interesting you ask, because I haven't pinned down, like, was it something I saw in real life or something on a television show?

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

Or where was I getting this messaging that it wasn't okay to raise my voice, to be very, very sharp?

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

Yeah.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

I'm not sure of the answer of that, but I know that it got to a place where it went too far, literally to the place of, like, I'm nodding and just saying yes or whatever to, you know, somebody that's maybe speaking to me in a way that I absolutely disagree with.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

And I go home and break out in eczema.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

And that's not an exaggeration.