1. first question you asked after reading the “pluribus” pilot?
what is going on?
OKAY RHEA
2. first question you asked ready the season 1 finale?
what am I doing with the bomb? and i still don't know the answer
3.first question creator vince gilligan gave you that changed how you approached the character?
he gave me lots of notes, but one that was a huge shift was she is still fighting, and we were taking a turn on a scene that was a bit more absolutely defeated, and he said she's the most reluctant hero ever, but she still is going to get back up every time.
4. first question that appeals to you personally about the joining…?
i guess, like, no wars is appealing, but I'm firmly on Team Carol's side as far as not wanting to join.
5. first question kim wexler would have if she wake up ih the “pluribus” universe?
oh, wow. I think she would be the, she'd want to be the hero instead of the reluctant hero. I think Kim would be extremely interested, actually, now that you mention it, in their legalese. the fact that they don't lie, but they speak very lawyerly, i think she would want to go up against them linguistically in debate.
6. first audition you felt like you completely bombed…?
i don't know, yesterday? no, there's time. the first that I completely bombed, i can't even think of what the first one was. there certainly are plenty. one of my very first auditions, they said the acting was good. they then said, but you can't play that role because people are supposed to be attracted to her. so that was hard.
7.first moment in your career when you felt you’d finally arrived ?
that one's always a difficult question because I just think it depends on what you're defining as arrived. i mean, certainly getting to work with Vince Gilligan and, at the time, Peter Gould as well, co-showrunning Better Call Saul. but before that, you know, first time I ever was a series regular on a show, I'm with her. before that, it was actually, you know, first time anybody paid to see me on stage, which was $5. and I wasn't getting paid at all when it was non-union theater. but I thought they bought the ticket to sit here and let me take them on a journey from A to B. and that I felt like I arrived.
8. first secret talent you have that gilligan hasn’t written into a show yet?
he just wrote in that you see me paint in Pluribus. so that was one of them. he's also had me do jigsaw puzzles. that's not really a talent, but it is a hobby. he's put my bad dancing already in. some of my bad singing. like making miniature sculptures. he hasn't put that in anything yet. I like to make bored or sad, weird children that are about this tall.
9. first thing you’d want to know if everything in the universe were suddenly knowable?
it feels like, in theory, I would want to know, like, what's the meaning of life and all of that. but I don't think I would. it’s one of those things where, like, kind of like being, getting a bad review on a play and you still have to do eight weeks of it. so you don't really want to know that that's what anybody thought. I'd want to know if trying your best is good enough. or should I let go of striving for never, never failing? because I beat myself up about, like, saying the wrong thing to somebody or hurting someone's feelings. i think it would relieve me to know that the universe in all of its energy is forgiving as long as you're trying.
