{"id":536887,"date":"2026-03-15T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536887\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:00:07","slug":"pluribus-cast-was-almost-naked-vince-gilligan-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536887\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pluribus’ Cast Was Almost Naked, Vince Gilligan Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe \u201cPluribus<\/a>\u201d costume designer almost had a very easy job.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn a panel at SXSW, while discussing his Apple TV sci-fi hit, Vince Gilligan<\/a> said he considered that the hundreds of characters that make up the hive mind should be naked.<\/p>\n

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

\n\tSitting next to him was lead actor Rhea Seehorn, who said, breaking out into laughter, \u201cOh my God, thank you \u2026 Can you imagine \u2026 if I had to try to act with 300 naked people?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPluribus\u201d takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which all but 13 people on Earth are taken over by an alien virus that merges everyone\u2019s consciousness into one hive mind. Seehorn\u2019s character Carol is surrounded by creepily friendly yes-people who always speak in the royal we. Theoretically, they wouldn\u2019t be embarrassed to be nude, but Gilligan realized there was also a practical component to their clothing.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe figured, they strictly wear clothes for protection against the sun and against cold or whatnot,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we talked hours and hours and hours about all that kind of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking about the costumes of \u201cPluribus,\u201d Seehorn pointed out that at the beginning of the series, when \u201cThe Joining\u201d infects mankind, people are dressed in the outfits they had on at the time, which included work uniforms for characters who happened to be on the clock. (Remember the DHL guy who tells Carol she could probably have an atom bomb, if she wanted one?)<\/p>\n

\n\tCostume designer Jennifer Bryan, who was also on the panel, explained how, over time, the characters\u2019 clothing became more minimal and functional \u2014 in other words, less individualistic. \u201cEventually days pass, and obviously, people have to change clothes. And then all of those mores for clothing disappear. There\u2019s no reason for them to impress you with their clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGilligan, Seehorn and Bryan were joined on the panel by \u201cPluribus\u201d composer Dave Porter and executive producer Trina Siopy. Katherine Pope, the president of Sony Pictures Television, moderated the conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cPluribus\u201d costume designer almost had a very easy job. On a panel at SXSW, while discussing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,19436,19438],"class_list":["post-536887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-pluribus","tag-vince-gilligan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}