Rhea Seehorn
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And it was a male character.
And he has said that it's just because that's second nature to him, that he is a man and he has written male protagonists.
And then
I don't know the exact, like, shift that happened or where, but I didn't know about it until after we had wrapped all of Better Call Saul.
But he said it was during, I think, towards the end of season one of Better Call Saul that he was just watching me work and talking.
Had talked to me a lot about the way I work as well as watching me perform and decided that I'm stuttering because it's hard to say this because I'm floored by the compliment and the flattery.
to put it mildly and struggle saying it about myself but he said that he he realized like I have to write something for her I have to I need to make sure that I do a project with her and actually wouldn't these concepts that I'm noodling with wouldn't they work even better if they were her and he knew that he also wanted to play with tone and take wild swings as far as like it could be darkly comedic or it could be darkly psychological sometimes it's going to
you know, go between back and forth.
And he was impressed at my ability to do those things.
So hard for me to say about myself.
That can be the title of this episode.
Ray Sehorne brags about herself.
Yeah, I don't know.
Listen, I've had to sit next to him in interviews when he's saying it.
And I'm just, my face is one giant tomato red ball when he's saying it.
But I'm certainly very thankful for it.
I wanted so badly to run away with the circus, and by that I mean television and film.
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.