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Rhea Seehorn's new role in Apple TV+'s Pluribus sees her reunite with Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan
Seehorn says her Pluribus character Carol Sturka is the "polar opposite" from her Better Call Saul character Kim Wexler
Seehorn gets emotional as she recalls the moment Gilligan told her he wanted to entrust her with other roles
Rhea Seehornis excited to flex new acting muscles.
The actress' Apple TV+ sci-fi dramaPluribussees her reunite withBetter Call Saulcreator Vince Gilligan. InPluribus, Seehorn, 53, plays Carol Sturka, a romance author who she described at the show's Los Angeles premiere on Nov. 4 as the "polar opposite" from herBetter Call Saulcharacter Kim Wexler.
"Vince said to me — I'll try to do it without crying — he said to me that somewhere along the line he was watching me inSaul, and whenever we took a little swerve and it was comedic or it was dark or psychological or dramatic, that there was some point at which he was like, 'I want to give her these other things to do,' " Seehorn tells PEOPLE. "So, that was very exciting for me to then get the script and see, like, 'Oh, we're doing everything!' "
InPluribus, Seehorn's Carol finds herself having to save humanity from an alien virus that has taken over (almost) everyone on Earth and turned them all deliriously happy.
"Rhea's character, she's kind of a troubled and imperfect hero, but she's doing her best to save the world," Gilligan tells PEOPLE. "I missed writing good guys."
Gilligan clarifies that he "couldn't be more proud" of the bad guys he wrote inBreaking BadorBetter Call Saul.
"I love those shows," he says. "Breaking Badwill be the first thing on my obituary, I'm sure. But after 20 years of writing bad guys, I was kind of ready for a good guy again."
Gilligan previously toldEntertainment Weeklythat the idea forPluribuswas sparked by his interest in "a world in which everyone was nice."
"There was no way you could insult them," he said. "There was no way you could hurt their feelings. But they would do anything and everything for you."
"What interests me about this show and the possibilities for it is that people, I hope, can watch it and say, 'What would the world be like if everybody got along?'" he continued. "There's probably a bit of wish fulfillment in the idea of this show."
Pluribusairs Fridays on Apple TV+.
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