In a recent interview with Deadline, Pluribus star Rhea Seehorn shared how she and other members of the cast reacted to Wednesday’s Emmy nominations.
“I started crying 100%,” Seehorn told Deadline. “And Carlos-Manuel! We’ve all been trading phone calls. We’re all trying to get ahold of each other. I was texting with Jeff Hiller. I just got to speak to Miriam Shor. We had a little cry together and I’ve talked to Vince and been texting with my sound crew, my camera crew… What a wonderful day. We made this show that we loved and believed in so much and for it to be received this way, it’s very thick icing on this cake.”
Seehorn, Carlos-Manuel Vesga, and Karolina Wydra, who respectively play Carol, Manousos, and Zosia on the sci-fi drama all received nominations for their performances. They account for just some of the eighteen nominations Vince Gilligan’s Apple TV+ exclusive received Wednesday morning — with Writing and Directing nods also among them.
Pluribus, which follows Seehorn’s Carol Sturka as one of the few individuals left remaining after a hive mind takes control of humanity, marks her second partnership with Gilligan. Her first was as lawyer Kim Wexler on the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul, a role which itself earned her multiple Emmy nominations. Season 2 of Pluribus is currently in early stages of production.
“I am at the stage of dying to read scripts,” Seehorn told Deadline in reference to Season 2. “I don’t have anything, but I know they’re so hard at work. I haven’t even dropped by the office for fear of disturbing them. There is every intention to get us started as fast as we can. I know that that’s so important to the whole writing stuff, but it’s also important to them to maintain the level of writing and production that they’ve done in the past and to reward the intelligence of our audience.”
Karolina Wydra, who plays Zosia, one of the hive mind’s sprightly spokespeople, experienced a moment of disbelief when she saw her nomination. “I didn’t have an agent or a manager and I was a stay-at-home mom for quite a while and I didn’t even know how I would get back into acting,” she told Deadline. “I got the audition out of nowhere… I can’t believe, first of all, that I got the role with Vince and I got to work with Vince and Rhea and this incredible cast and everyone that’s worked on Pluribus and now this. It truly feels like I’m living in the dream.”
Season 2 of Pluribus while presumably pick up where Season 1 left off, with Carol and Zosia’s blossoming romance left shattered after Carol reaffirms her commitment to curing and reversing the hive mind’s apocalypse. The last scene of the season sees Carol have an atom bomb shipped outside her New Mexico home, a final bargaining chip in case the hive mind tries to forcibly assimilate her.
“I do not know what I’m doing with the atom bomb in the driveway, I can tell you that,” Seehorn remarked to Deadline. “It’s definitely there. I don’t think it’s secretly an ADU for a mother-in-law. I think we’re going to do something with it.”
Season 1 of Pluribus is streaming now on Apple TV+.