{"id":149287,"date":"2025-09-11T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149287\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:56:06","slug":"rhea-seehorn-better-call-saul-star-producing-katja-meiers-hare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149287\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhea Seehorn, ‘Better Call Saul’ Star, Producing Katja Meier’s ‘$hare’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Swiss creator Katja Meier<\/a> made headlines earlier this year when she said she had been shocked by demands to make the female protagonist of her new show \u201c20 years younger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeier ignored the requests and pushed on with $hare and we can reveal she has just landed Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn<\/a> as EP. <\/p>\n

\n\tSeehorn viewed $hare at the recent SeriesFest<\/a> in Denver, Meier tells us, and approached her with a view to getting involved with the series after it won SeriesFest\u2019s Rural Intersectionality Fund award. The pilot is now available on independent streamer Olyn and a series is in pre-production. \u201cI didn\u2019t want the pilot to end when I saw it. I wanted to follow each of these characters wherever they went,\u201d said Seehorn. <\/p>\n

\n\tMeier told The Guardian in January<\/a> that having made it onto the UK arm of the well known Writers Lab program, which is backed by the likes of Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, she was repeatedly asked by production companies to make her protagonist younger, a demand she disregarded, instead hiring German Film Award nominee Victoria Trauttmansdorff (Gegen\u00fcber).<\/p>\n

\n\tTrauttmansdorff plays 59-year-old Lena Corbyn, who inherits part of a British-Swiss mining empire and sets out to revolutionize it by closing a harmful coal mine while her wealthy family fights back to protect the status quo. The female-led production team shot the pilot on a winter campsite near St. Moritz in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tVictoria Trauttmansdorff as Lena Corbyn in \u2018$hare\u2019.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re independent filmmakers and storytellers who create our own opportunities,\u201d said Meier. \u201cWe didn\u2019t wait for permission \u2013 we just went out and made the female- powered story we wanted to see on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSeehorn is an EP on the upcoming series. She played Kim Wexler in AMC hit Better Call Saul, for which she was nominated for two Emmys, and has also appeared in Veep and Bad Boys: Ride or Die. She recently joined the ensemble cast of indie hostage thriller Eleven Days<\/a> opposite Taylor Kitsch, Diego Luna and Jason Isaacs.<\/p>\n

\n\t$hare also stars Dulcie Smart. Delia Mayer (Unorthodox) is director and DoP is Isabelle Simmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Swiss creator Katja Meier made headlines earlier this year when she said she had been shocked by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,92312,92313,92314,3749],"class_list":["post-149287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-katja-meier","tag-rhea-seehorn","tag-seriesfest","tag-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}