Bob Odenkirk Explains How to Play Jimmy McGill better call saul Harder than his latest AMC role. In 2022, Odenkirk and Co. ended their time in Albuquerque with a dramatic final season break BadA spin-off series centered on Saul Goodman. Now Odenkirk will return to AMC Lucky Hankplays a grumpy, reclusive British professor with a midlife crisis.
The role of Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman is clearly an important one for Odenkirk because of the impact it has had on his stage career, but as the star recently spoke to electronic warfare. In fact, Odenkirk considers his new role Lucky Hank For him, that was easier than playing Goodman, a character he describes as driven by negativity and described as emotionally naive. Check out what Odenkirk had to say in the space below:
Honestly, Saul beat me to that. The first year was so hard. I’m like a bum. I mean, the absolute number of lines I have. In another person, in Jimmy’s case, a lot of the things that motivate him are negative things. He doesn’t feel like he’s getting what he deserves, and he’s resentful, so the resentment towards Chuck and everyone else is really a big motivator for him, and just living with the bad things. that extreme…in this case, [Lucky Hank’s William Devereaux] Many other things have been solved, but his bigger problem is this: he doesn’t notice that the world around him has changed. He has to realize this, and he has to change.
How Lucky Hank helped Odenkirk escape from Saul Goodman
Aside from the challenges of playing such a negative character in Saul Goodman, Odenkirk said it was difficult to express the emotions of someone so much younger than himself. Odenkirk said that he has a closer relationship with Lucky Hank The character William Henry Devereaux, Jr., explains that “He has a lot of emotions deep inside, but even in the first eight episodes, he has begun to process many of them.In contrast, Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman is not an intellectual problem solver, always scrambling for the next hustle or scam, never really dealing with conflicting emotions. conflict about his brother Chuck or whatever. His life.
it looks like odenkirk is in Lucky Hankplay a character who can solve his problems in a mature way and can even learn from his mistakes (without going to jail). Playing such a role allows Odenkirk to finally escape the scheming Saul Goodman, whether or not audiences agree with Odenkirk in the film. Lucky Hank their approach break Bad And better call saul. Lucky Hank premieres Sunday, March 19 on AMC.
Source: Electronic Warfare