Rhea Seehorn on ‘Better Call Saul’ and Kim Wexler’s Fate
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Rhea Seehorn may be best known for playing the very serious Kim Wexler opposite Bob Odenkirk on ‘Better Call Saul,’ which premiered its highly anticipated final season this week. But for the first 15 years or so of her acting career, she couldn’t break out of the “sitcom” box. In this episode, the actress opens up about getting “pigeonholed” in the comedy world, fighting to get the role that transformed her career, and then proving that she can still be hilarious by going toe-to-toe with Julia Louis-Dreyfus on ‘Veep.’ Plus, Seehorn teases season six of ‘Better Call Saul,’ including what it’s been like to have Bob Odenkirk back on set after his heart attack, how she feels about Tony Dalton’s Lalo surviving last season’s finale and what those finger guns were all about.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this week we are revisiting one of my favorite episodes from last year. |
| 0:14.9 | On Monday night, the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul premiered on AMC, |
| 0:20.4 | so I thought now would be the perfect time |
| 0:22.5 | to listen back to an episode I recorded last fall with Ray Seahorn, who plays Kim Wexler |
| 0:28.5 | opposite Bob Odenkirk's Saul Goodman. Like Odenkirk, Ray was mostly known for her work in comedy |
| 0:34.9 | before she took on this career-defining role in Better Call |
| 0:38.4 | Saul, which has arguably become even better than Breaking Bad since it spun off from that show |
| 0:43.9 | back in 2015. Ray and I talked all about the unconventional road she took to starring in one of |
| 0:50.7 | TV's best dramas, and how she finally broke out of the sitcom box that |
| 0:55.8 | Hollywood tried to put her in. We also went deep on everything that happened with her character |
| 1:00.8 | at the end of season five, so if you were just catching up with the show ahead of the final season, |
| 1:06.0 | this conversation will be particularly illuminating about what is in store for Kim Wexler. |
| 1:11.8 | Before we get to that conversation, there are only two more days to vote for the Last |
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| 1:35.7 | and searching for The Last Laugh. I will be eternally grateful for the support. All right, here we go. This is me with Ray Seahorn. Well, thank you so much for doing this. |
| 1:49.3 | Are you in Albuquerque right now? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I am. I was filming last night. |
| 1:55.5 | So yeah, I don't know if you remember this. We met down on the set in Albuquerque when you were filming |
| 2:00.2 | season four. I came down to write a big article for The Daily Beast about the behind the scenes |
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