Rhea Seehorn Talks ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6 and Says Fans Should Be ‘Concerned’ About Kim Wexler [Interview]

For Rhea Seehorn, the final season of Better Call Saul has offered some of the most challenging work of her career. And it’s anyone’s guess how her character Kim Wexler’s story is going to end.

We caught up with Seehorn on the red carpet during PaleyFest to discuss Better Call Saul Season 6, how Kim Wexler has evolved over the years, and whether or not we need to be worried about what might happen to Kim by the end of the series. (You can watch the full video below.)

“We can’t wait for people to see what we made for a year. Definitely some of the most challenging work I’ve done in my whole career,” Seehorn said.

In terms of saying goodbye to the series, though, Seehorn noted that the fact the show is ending hasn’t quite sunk in yet.

“Bob [Odenkirk] said the other day, though, and I do agree with this, for us, it doesn’t actually feel over yet. We’re aware, I mean whenever our character wrapped their last scene, it was hard. But we’re still doing ADR. We’re still waiting for it to air. I think probably when it’s done, and I’m waiting, like, ‘when are we going back?’ That’s [when] I’ll just curl up and cry for a couple of days.”

While the premise of Better Call Saul is centered on how the character of Jimmy McGill evolves into the version of Saul Goodman we knew on Breaking Bad, he’s not the only character we’ve seen evolve over the course of the series. Kim Wexler has also evolved quite a bit, a fact that Seehorn calls “a gift.”

“That’s not a norm on television all of the time — that a character gets to actually grow and evolve, and not only be changed by the circumstances they encounter and the people they encounter, but that you see new things about them.”

Seehorn said the question that continues to be raised about all of the characters, really, is one of nature vs. nurture. “Is it who she was and you just didn’t see it? Is it something that could have been [in] her that got ignited? Or is this completely [that] circumstances have caused her to go down this path? And they do keep forcing you to ask that question.”

“In the end, I think Kim has always had her own agency, though. She makes her own choices,” Seehorn continued.

“Sometimes she’s her most destructive when people tell her what to do. She will insist on doing the opposite. So I had a lot of fun navigating all of that. It’s great fun to be handed scripts and find out new things about your character, and also fun to find out things that I secretly was always playing in my subtext, and didn’t know that it was being seen. I always thought she had an alcoholic parent! From the pilot!” she exclaimed.

Finally, one of the big lingering questions going into the final season of Better Call Saul is, what will happen to Kim? After all, this isn’t a character we met in Breaking Bad. Should we be worried?

Seehorn hinted that we should. “I think we should be concerned. Yeah, the concern is warranted.”

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*Additional reporting by Kat Pettibone

Better Call Saul returns for its sixth and final season on Monday, April 18th at 9/8c with two back-to-back episodes.

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Ashley Bissette Sumerel

Ashley Bissette Sumerel is a television and film critic living in Wilmington, North Carolina. She is editor-in-chief of Tell-Tale TV as well as Eulalie Magazine. Ashley has also written for outlets such as Rolling Stone, Paste Magazine, and Insider. Ashley has been a member of the Critics Choice Association since 2017 and is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. In addition to her work as an editor and critic, Ashley teaches Entertainment Journalism, Composition, and Literature at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.