{"id":385800,"date":"2026-03-15T03:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/385800\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:19:07","slug":"pluribus-creator-at-sxsw-once-considered-naked-extras-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/385800\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pluribus’ Creator at SXSW Once Considered Naked Extras & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPluribus<\/a> creator Vince Gilligan once pondered that the extras who make up the hive mind on the dystopian future show should be naked. In addition, he regaled that a top Sony TV executive wasn\u2019t a fan early on of his multi-Emmy winning Breaking Bad<\/a>, which the studio ultimately produced. <\/p>\n

\n\tSuch stories were part of a panel that he and Pluribus star Rhea Seehorn participated in today at SXSW<\/a> called, \u201cAlbuquerque Aftermath: From\u00a0Breaking Bad\u00a0to\u00a0Pluribus.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe talked about they didn\u2019t need to wear clothes at all, but we\u2019re not working for HBO,\u201d Gilligan shared, \u201cBut then we thought, we can\u2019t do that to all these extras. We can\u2019t all be naked.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSeehorn added, laughing, \u201cCan you imagine \u2026 if I had to try to act with 300 naked people?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBlurb for Pluribus: After an alien-transmitted virus infects the world population with the disease of overabundant merriment, just over a dozen survivors remain. Among them: Seehorn\u2019s cantankerous romantasy author Carol Sturka, who must begrudgingly find a way to cure the earth of happiness. Following its premiere on AppleTV, the series landed an early season 2 commitment.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso during the session, Gilligan told the crowd that his project about a high school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) who becomes a meth lord as he battles his cancer \u2014Breaking Bad\u2013 received a chilly response from a former Sony Pictures TV suit who told him, \u201c\u2018That\u2019s the single worst idea I\u2019ve ever heard.’\u201d Gilligan said, \u201cTo his credit, he\u2019s a good man, and he acknowledged (what he said was wrong).\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition, Gilligan pitched Breaking Bad to HBO, a meeting that didn\u2019t go so hot, the TV creator calling it \u201ca toxic gamma radiation of disinterest\u201d for the project.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: <\/strong>\u2018Pluribus\u2019: Vince Gilligan Explains Why John Cena Had To Cameo & Deliver That Big Reveal To Carol<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAlso on today\u2019s panel, which was moderated by Sony Pictures Television President Katherine Pope, were Pluribus composer Dave Porter, costume designer Jennifer Bryan and EP Trina Siopy. <\/p>\n

\n\tGilligan gave an update on season 2<\/a> at the Apple Press Day on Feb. 7, saying that scribes were \u201cplugging away\u201d and that the series \u201cain\u2019t gonna be The Pitt coming back every year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan once pondered that the extras who make up the hive mind on the dystopian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[94500,434,18,117,19,17,96323,62590],"class_list":["post-385800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-bad","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pluribus","tag-sxsw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116231036311873851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}