Bob Odenkirk had a heart attack on the set of Better Call Saul exactly a year ago, but that incident was good for his performance in the Breaking Bad spin-off.
Exactly one year ago, Bob Odenkirk suffered a heart attack midway through filming the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul. Fortunately, the actor was rescued, spent some time in recovery and managed to return to the set to finish work on the production created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. Now, the star has commented on how this incident helped him improve his performance.
During an interview with NPR, odenkirk revealed how the terrifying – and near-deadly – heart attack changed his worldview and, as a result, helped him in the role of Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill in the spin-off of breaking bad.
How did a heart attack help Bob Odenkirk improve in Better Call Saul?
“It made it even easier, much easier to be in the moment… to look at the world almost as if you had just woken up and not remember a thing,” said the actor. “My wife dragged herself after a sleepless day, answering multiple phone calls and having a private jet that Sony was so good at sending to pick you up in New York. She walked into the hospital room, I showed up after surgery that morning and said, ‘Let’s get to work!'”
“And that energy was conveyed and made it easy to be in the moment. That’s your job as an actor. That’s the weird mind game that you play, it’s stepping into someone else’s moment in life, but really feeling on the verge of, ‘I I don’t know what happens from here,'” he continued. “For me, it was easier to do with that kind of weird, newfound point of view on the world.”
I really want to stay in touch with what happened there because it really was a great reconnection with being alive. And so I would love to reflect on that every day and try to reconnect.
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Source: Rollingstone
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