After completing six seasons of “Better Call Saul,” Bob Odenkirk is ready to say goodbye to his iconic character Saul Goodman, which became an instant fan favourite ever since the good old days of “Breaking Bad.”
The actor told The New York Times that he finally realized why actors like James Gandolfini and Byan Craston had found playing similar dark characters extremely hard.
“I always used to scoff and roll my eyes at actors who say, ‘It’s so hard.’ Really? It can’t be,” Odenkirk said. “[But] the truth is that you use your emotions, and you use your memories, you use your hurt feelings and losses, and you manipulate them, dig into them, dwell on them. A normal adult doesn’t walk around doing that, going, ‘What was the worst feeling of abandonment I’ve had in my life? Let me just gaze at that for the next week and a half, because that’s going to fuel me.'”
“It gave me great sympathy for someone like James Gandolfini, who talked about how he couldn’t wait to be done with that character, and I think Bryan [Cranston] said similar things: ‘I can’t wait to leave this guy behind.’ I finally related to that attitude.”
“It’s emotional to say goodbye to the show and to all these people I’ve been working with for so many years,” he said.
The 59-year-old actor, who recently suffered a near-fatal heart attack, is now looking forward to a potential “Nobody” trilogy and collaborating with “Mr. Show” co-creator David Cross for his latest docu-style comedy, “Guru Nation.”
“(Until then) I want to stay under the radar and get to be this guy who gets to go over here and then gets to go over there. Because some of these things I’ve done feel opposed. They don’t live in the same Venn diagram. But I think that’s cool,” Odenkirk said.
