#one l

Q: With three seasons of ‘Better Call Saul’ under your belt, what have you come away with?

Seehorn: I do feel personally affected by two facets of Kim: One is her stillness. And not only her comfort, but her love of being silent — and not filling silences when there’s no need to. That kind of economy of dialog and gesture, I admire it. That’s been fun to play and really fun to think about.

Legally, I continue the thoughts that I started when I read Scott Turow’s 1977 book “One L,” about a Harvard first-year law student. I read it when I first started the show, because I knew we weren’t going to be doing a procedural law show, that’s not what they were writing. They were writing about human beings who practice law, and how it affects them — and that’s very much what Scott Turow’s book is about.

It sounds like you really did your homework.

Seehorn: There’s a lot of information, legalese, and stuff that was helpful! But the majority of the book was about how it can alter someone, to study and commit themselves to practicing law. There are people who quit because of what it does to your sense of morality, and how you have to redefine good and bad.

Being a good person, being a bad person — all those intentions have no place in the courtroom. Some people feel irrevocably changed, they’re not comfortable with it at all, while other people cling to it as it begins to alter the rest of their world. It’s sort of this duality that some people can straddle, and other people have to put aside… [Which] continues to fascinate me about Kim, because that is very much a part of her struggle.