{"id":379547,"date":"2025-12-31T09:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379547\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:45:09","slug":"after-pluribus-revisit-rhea-seehorns-next-best-genre-role-magic-the-gathering-tutorial-sorceress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379547\/","title":{"rendered":"After ‘Pluribus’, Revisit Rhea Seehorn’s Next Best Genre Role: ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Tutorial Sorceress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pluribus season one<\/a> has ended<\/a>. As the wait for season two of the Apple TV series begins, newly minted fans of lead actor Rhea Seehorn<\/a> are discovering something fans of her work on Better Call Saul delighted in years ago<\/a>: her early-career role as a Magic: The Gathering video game tutorial sorceress.<\/p>\n

This piece of nerdy trivia\u2014which dovetails pleasingly with Seehorn\u2019s character on Pluribus, Carol Sturka, being a romantasy author\u2014resurfaced on NPR\u2019s Wait Wait\u2026 Don\u2019t Tell Me! podcast<\/a>. Seehorn, a guest panelist on the show, was asked about her first credit listed on IMDB. Long before Better Call Saul or Pluribus, back in 1997, she played \u201cthe tutorial sorceress\u201d in the Magic: The Gathering video game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a very early job, yes,\u201d Seehorn said in response. \u201cIn the original game it was, like, software of the card game. But it came with a tutorial \u2026 about how to navigate through the game. And me and an actor named Reggie, we were playing sorcerer and sorceress.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued. \u201cIt was so low-budget that they didn\u2019t have shoes, but they wanted us to look like we were wearing gladiator sorcerer boots or whatever. So we\u2019re just wearing tube socks with electrical tape in a criss-cross fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if she\u2019d ever actually played the game, Seehorn explained, \u201cI was so excited that my photo was on the back that I went to Best Buy. I couldn\u2019t afford whatever the game was back then\u2014it was like $45 or something. I showed them the picture on the back, and I was like, \u2018This is me, oh my god! I did that! Would you give me a copy?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Alas, Best Buy didn\u2019t cough up a freebie back then\u2014but Seehorn\u2019s legacy lives on forever as part of Magic. The NPR interviewer even wondered how many \u201caging nerds\u201d saw her on Pluribus and thought she looked oddly familiar somehow.<\/p>\n

Listen to the whole Rhea Seehorn interview in the video below; the Magic chat starts around 26 minutes in.<\/p>\n

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