Rhea Seehorn was overlooked for years. In 'Pluribus,' she's impossible to ignore

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Set us as preferred Rhea Seehorn possesses what Vince Gilligan calls “Jumbotron face.” As the creator of “Pluribus” and (with Peter Gould) “Better Call Saul,” Gilligan has relied on Seehorn’s ability to broadcast what her characters are thinking and feeling without saying much of anything.Gilligan loves silences and uses them in long stretches, allowing — or, perhaps more accurately, demanding — his audience to figure out what’s happening on their own.

And in Seehorn he found someone who, with a mere sidelong glance or knitted brow, can let you in on Gilligan’s secrets.But Seehorn carries this ability wherever she goes, she tells me.

People take a look at her and make assumptions.She’s 5 foot 4, lean and seems athletic, though she says she’s “the least athletic person that anybody knows.” That hasn’t stopped her from being cast as a golf instructor in the upcoming second season of the Owen Wilson comedy series “Stick” and a track and field coach in a movie she’s shooting right now called “Running.”“I do not run,” she told the movie’s director, Gavin O’Connor.

“I can tell people to run, but you don’t want to see me running.”It’s not just work, though, where these deductions are made.Up until a few years ago, when people started recognizing her for playing poker-faced attorney Kim Wexler on “Better Call Saul,” Seehorn would be standing in a store and customers figured she worked there.

Shopping at the Gap, she’d be asked if a T-shirt comes in medium.In Target, she’d be queried about where to find the Christmas decorations.

Even on set, a background person would approach her, wondering if there’s any more plain bagels at craft service.Why do you think this happens? I ask her.

Because, even with her fame and her Golden Globe win for playing Carol, a sad woman...