There are two names that are never mentioned in the success of Break the bad And You better call Saul: those of Sharon Bialy And Sherry Thomas. Both are the casting directors that Vince Gilligan trusted to form his large family in Albuquerque. I would rehearse with them in The path and in Pluribusrecently broadcast in Spain by Apple TV+.
Bialy and Thomas saw, for example, that the father of Malcolm in the Middle He was able to give a performance that Anthony Hopkins himself described as “the best I’ve ever seen.” Also, that a second-rate model could be a first-rate actor if they made her cook blue meth with Brian Cranston; or that a filler screenwriter in Saturday evening live He could play the zany and immoral Saul Goodman and his counterpart, the touching and lovable thug Jimmy McGill.
Also, that Rhea Seehorn is one of the best actresses on the planet. At least, if we judge her solely by her work in You better call Saula series in which he co-starred with Bob Odenkirk; and for the episodes broadcast PluribuYes. But where does Rhea Seehorn come from?
Where have we seen Rhea Seehorn before?
We cannot say that she is an actress with a long career ahead of her: Rhea Seehorn turns 54 in Maywhich implies that he started You better call Saul with more than 40. And this leads us to ask ourselves a question: How come no one, until now, has noticed it?
The truth is, they did. What’s more, his first boss was perhaps the most important small screen creator of them all, David Simon, author of The wire, Treme either Homicide. Rhea Seehorn makes her debut in one of the chapters of the latter series, with an episodic character. From there begins a parade of short films (one of them, entitled Why Spain?), and two series that stand out little from an otherwise forgettable production: Whitney And I am with herwhich allow it to season itself in several dozen episodes.
None of this, on its own, explains how Sharon Bialy and Sherry Thomas were able to detect in her career an actress worthy of the Breaking Bad universe. So Rhea Seehorn’s audition must have been nothing short of spectacular. For Pluribusno longer needed to go through casting: Apple TV+, on the orders of Vince Gilligan, had rolled out a red carpet in front of it.
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