Star Of ‘Pluribus’ Rhea Seehorn
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Public media is no longer federally funded, but the NPR network remains yours in service to and powered by you. Keep public media public with a donation today at donate.npr.org and thank you. This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. One of the most talked-about TV series now is the Apple TV series Pleuribus, created by Vince Gilligan.
It stars my guest Ray Seahorn. You may know her as the co-star of Better Call Saul, which was both a prequel and sequel to Breaking Bad. Seahorn and Pluribus were just each nominated for a Golden Globe. In Pluribus, Seahorn plays Carol, a writer of best selling romance novels. Her life partner, Helen, is her manager.
One night, Carol and Helen are leaving a bar when Helen has a seizure and dies. Suddenly everyone around Carol in the bar and in the ER are frozen in place or have fallen down and having a seizure. And then most of them get up and seem changed. They're talking and walking in unison. Their faces are somewhere between happy and hypnotized, or
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