Rhea Seehorn on Carol’s explosive ‘Pluribus’ finale choice: ‘These people have crossed the line’
At the end of Pluribus In Season 1, Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn) led the world’s craziest business deal. She lost her romance with Zosia (Karolina Wydra), but gained an atomic bomb.
This compromise to end all compromises comes after Carol receives devastating news. The Others secretly used stem cells from her frozen eggs to adapt the hive mind virus to her. He only has a month left, maybe two or three at most, before he joins everyone.
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This betrayal stuck with Seehorn when he read the final script for the first time. “I had a whirlwind of emotions during the whole finale,” she told Mashable in a video interview. “The fact that they stole my eggs was the first atomic bomb.”
A figurative bomb begets a literal bomb, and it’s not long before Carol has a weapon of mass destruction outside her Albuquerque home.
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Carol’s request echoes her realization earlier in season 1 that the Others will give her anything she desires – even an atomic bomb. So what exactly is it about the stem cell revelation that causes Carol to literally go nuclear on the Others? For Seehorn, Carol’s choice is an expression of pure anger.
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“Carol is quite impulsive, as we’ve seen, and her rage is something she’s had to suppress,” Seehorn explained. “But [in the finale] she allows herself to move forward and be reactionary, like: “Who cares about that. These people crossed the last line they could have crossed.'”
So what will Carol do with her new nuclear weapon? Is she planning to use it, or is it just a warning signal to the Others that she won’t enter their hive minds quietly?
“I don’t really know what she’s going to do with the atomic bomb,” Seehorn said. “I thought about it a lot. I asked [creator] Vince [Gilligan]. He didn’t have a specific answer. They’re in the writers’ room right now; we should ask him.
Ultimately, however, it is Carol’s uncertainty about the future that proves richest for Seehorn as a performer.
“Ultimately,” she said, “I actually think it’s more important to me, given the way I wanted to play it, that Carol would be impulsive and ask for the biggest, most violent, most threatening thing she could think of before she even knew what she would do with it.”
Pluribus Season 1 is now streaming on Apple TV.
