In Pluribus, an alien race assimilates almost the whole of humanity into a single hive mind – save for thirteen people. Among them is Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), who isn’t on board with the pleasant nature of this single shared consciousness and is resolute about finding a way to fight back. She’s also pretty upset about the loss of her wife Helen (Miriam Shor), who died before she could join this hive mind.
Awards Buzz spoke with Shor about earning her first Emmy nomination for this role and the appeal of getting to work with Vince Gilligan:
“I’ll tell you what – I have been a fan of Vince’s since The X-Files because I’m a nerd, okay? And I’m proud. Then subsequently, all his work he did on Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, yeah, so he became a legend. But I don’t know what my expectations were. I like to keep my expectations low and my hopes high on anything I do. But you don’t really question it. You’re like, Vince Gilligan? Yes! I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t read a script, and even the sides I got for my audition were just like, Schmerril and Schmellon are in a bar. You’re like, who are these people? There was no sense of the world. But I’ll tell you what, the writing in that scene was so good that I knew who these people were to each other. I knew what my character wanted to do and give to that person even though I knew nothing else around it. So I was like, oh, that’s some good writing. This is going to be an adventure. But what I didn’t know was that Vince had written the show that I’ve always wanted to watch as a fan as a viewer the show that I was hoping for in that exact moment.”
Watch the video above to hear about her love for this kind of fare, her past TV work in the short-lived CBS series Swingtown, and her directorial debut with the documentary My NDA, which premiered at SXSW.
Season one of Pluribus is streaming on Apple TV.
