In a digital look immediately at Deadline’s Contenders TV, Better Call Saul‘s Bob Odenkirk reflected on the opportunity he had to work with screen legend Carol Burnett over the course of the Breaking Bad prequel’s last season.
“She’s just a great actress — completely connected, completely grounded, utterly with it. With somebody who’s a legend like that, someone who’s older, you worry if you’re going to have to work around them a little — and not at all,” the two-time Emmy winner shared. “She was utterly present, ready to rip it up. She knew her lines, she knew her part so well…It was a beautiful performance. She must get nominated now, come on.”
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Burnett’s character, Marion, is a local of Omaha, Nebraska, who meets the person we’ve often called each Slippin’ Jimmy McGill and Saul Goodman, whereas he’s residing on the run and in disguise, utilizing the alias Gene Takovic. While the pair firstly of Season 6 share a candy second or two, Marion ultimately involves suspect that one thing about Gene just isn’t fairly proper.
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Odenkirk was joined for immediately’s dialog on the 46x Emmy-nominated sequence by his co-star Rhea Seehorn, who appeared nearly, in addition to co-creator, showrunner and government producer Peter Gould, who joined moderator Dominic Patten in individual on the DGA Theater. The present produced for AMC by Sony Pictures Television has, whereas flashing ahead to trace the lifetime of Takovic, flashed again to look at how fledgling ABQ legal professional McGill turned the amoral con man and prison consultant Saul Goodman of Breaking Bad fame. Its last season concludes the sophisticated journey and transformation of its compromised hero, monitoring Jimmy, Saul and Gene, in addition to Jimmy’s advanced relationship with Kim (Seehorn), who’s within the midst of her personal existential disaster.
Over the course of the Contenders chat, Gould, Odenkirk and Seehorn additionally mirrored on the interaction between their sequence and Breaking Bad, and the way engaged on BCS might or might not have made them see the Bryan Cranston starrer in a brand new mild. While Gould backed the notion that “without Saul Goodman, there would’ve been no Walter White,” Odenkirk had a distinct take. “I think that Walter White would’ve still been Walter White without Saul, he just wouldn’t have lived as long, obviously. He would’ve had a shorter run,” mentioned the actor-producer. “[But] I think Breaking Bad is the mothership. That’s how I feel about it.”
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Back within the Emmys race this season with quite a lot of Season 6 episodes that didn’t air inside final 12 months’s eligibility window, Better Call Saul is co-created by Vince Gilligan and Gould. The pair are joined as EPs on the crime drama, additionally starring Patrick Fabian, by Mark Johnson, Melissa Bernstein, Thomas Schnauz, Gordon Smith, Alison Tatlock, Diane Mercer and Michael Morris.
Check again Tuesday for the panel video.
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