Bob Odenkirk discussed his transition from his leading role in 'Better Call Saul' to 'Lucky Hank.'
“Very upsetting, very unnerving to play a guy…,” Odenkirk says, trailing off while talking about the resentment the character was driven by. “This speaks to playing people who have serious issues, which are the only kind of people they write to because that’s fun to watch and I remember reading about Bryan [Cranston] playing Walter White, and I remember reading about [James] Gandolfini playing Tony Soprano and the frustrations and the challenges they felt staying in those guys’ heads.
Earlier this month, Odenkirk officially stepped into his new role as Professor Hank Devereau, English department head at a university with mediocre – his words – students in the AMC series“After playing Saul Goodman for so long, this guy is sort of fundamentally different than Saul because he is connected to people in his world,” the actor explains. “He loves them. They love him. Not to mention, there are no drugs, no guns, there are no cartels, there are no zombies. It’s not a genre piece.
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