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She wants to be the hammer, not the nail. She wants to be the player, not the played.
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You played me.” She does not want to be played. She has that amazing scene in episode six this season, that Tom Schnauz wrote and Michael Morris directed, where she says, “I can’t go on like this. I save me.” She has a pride in herself and a pride in her ability to take care of herself and to make her own decisions, so I don’t think she ever wants to feel that she is playing second banana or following someone down a road. She says in that great line that Ann Cherkis wrote a few seasons ago: “You don’t save me. She wants to feel and to know, and I’ve sometimes used this phrase, that she is the captain of her own ship. I think it’s important to Kim to feel that she’s not a passenger. If there’s always been something doomed about Jimmy and Kim, what was the importance of making her a more active active participant in it? We’ve been sad and worried about Kim before, but usually because of things that Jimmy did or that she was a semi-passive participant in. Something has been clearly in the works for a long time, but it surprises me when I see it, and boy does it ever surprise Jimmy. Her perspective on life seems to have shifted a good ways. Something seems to have changed inside Kim Wexler. I feel like I’ve asked you countless times about Jimmy’s journey to becoming full-Saul, but to some degree, is this finale Kim becoming full-Saul before Jimmy did? 'Better Call Saul' Star Looks Toward Final Season: "They're Going to Write the Best Ending Possible" Monday night wrapped up a tremendous penultimate season for AMC’s Better Call Saul with “Something Unforgivable,” a finale that saw Kim (Rhea Seehorn), rather than Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk), embracing her dark side and culminated in an ultra-intense hacienda shootout as assassins came after Lalo (Tony Dalton) and learned a difficult lesson about his home-court advantage.īetter Call Saul showrunner Peter Gould got on the phone with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about Kim tapping into her own Saul Goodman, the significance of her playful finger-guns, the terrifyingly funny crafting of Lalo and more.