Rhea Seehorn

I was obsessed with television and film.

And as a kid in the suburbs in Virginia, I'd never known anybody that had even the loosest association with the entertainment business.

And thought it was just an impossible dream.

And then in my first year at George Mason University, you had to take an elective in the arts that was not your major.

And my major was fine arts.

And so I took an acting class with Lenny Ray Buck.

And very thankfully, it was not a emotional ooey-gooey class.

I took plenty of those later.

But this was a...

hardcore do your homework script analysis class using practical aesthetics that was developed out of the Atlantic Theater.

And I just was in love with the fact that if you work really hard and

You can incrementally get closer and closer to being good at this and hopefully one day great at this.

And that was the best news ever to me because I didn't know a lot about how to do this thing.

But I thought, oh, if you just want hours put in and like stay home and study and work at this thing.

I'm in.

And then almost immediately, the idea that, oh, this is studying the behavior of humans and the whys.

And it was at times a very difficult household coming up.

And the idea that you could actually start thinking about people's behavior as a result of what it is that they want and their needs.

inability to use the correct tactic or the given circumstance that are holding them back.

It's just like, it blew my mind that that is how you can organize human behavior and not only have empathy for it, but mimic it in a way that invites people in to go on a journey with you when you're on stage.