Rhea Seehorn
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And as you said, there's this idea of anger can be, you know,
a miasma almost that like can spread.
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.
But at the same time,
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.
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...
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 –
make it palatable, make my requests palatable and not express a lot of anger.
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.
But plus it was my parents were divorced.
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.
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.
And it did feel like,
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?
Or where was I getting this messaging that it wasn't okay to raise my voice, to be very, very sharp?
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.
And I go home and break out in eczema.
And that's not an exaggeration.