Nearly eight months after Bob Odenkirk collapsed on the set of Better Call Saul, he reflected on his “heart incident” and his recovery.
02.03.2022 - 19:23 / nme.com
Nobody for saving his life after he suffered a heart attack.The actor, who is best known for starring in Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul, had a heart attack in New Mexico last July while shooting the AMC series.Speaking on The Howard Stern Show on Monday (February 28), Odenkirk said he “would have been dead” if it hadn’t been for someone on set starting CPR immediately.The health officer on the series then ran to her car for a defibrillator after around “12 minutes of CPR”, which was used on the actor three times.“Which is actually a lot,” Odenkirk said. “I was told later when the defibrillator doesn’t work once, that’s not good.
When it doesn’t work the second time, that is kind of like – forget it. But then they jacked it up a third time, and it got me back to a rhythm.”Speaking about how working out for film Nobody also contributed to saving his life, Odenkirk said: “One of the things that saved me was I learned how to work out.
Because I was in good shape, you kind of enlarge some of the other veins around your heart, if you work out a lot.“And I was told then that more blood was able to go to my heart during CPR because these veins were just a little bit bigger from a lot of working out.”The morning after, Odenkirk had surgery that successfully cleared the plaque in his hearts’ left anterior. “Take CPR classes, because you can save lives with them,” Odenkirk added.The sixth and final season of Better Call Saul is scheduled to premiere on April 18 on AMC in the US.
Nearly eight months after Bob Odenkirk collapsed on the set of Better Call Saul, he reflected on his “heart incident” and his recovery.
set of his AMC show “Better Call Saul.”The 59-year-old actor sat down with NBC “Today” show host Willie Geist to discuss his “shocking” July 2021 health scare in a candid interview set to air Sunday. He explained that doctors clarified he had a “heart incident” and not a heart attack, explaining his “widow-maker artery was completely blocked.“That’s why it’s called the widow-maker, ’cause you die when that happens. But I went down.
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In 2013, the end of Walter White in the acclaimed AMC drama “Breaking Bad” arrived. Nine years later, and even before Walter’s story starts, it is the end of the beginning for Jimmy McGill, better known as Saul Goodman.
Wilson Chapman editorAfter six years, Jimmy McGill is on the verge of breaking bad.AMC has released the official trailer for the sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul,” the popular “Breaking Bad” prequel series starring Bob Odenkirk.The show features Odenkirk reprising his role as the fan-favorite “Breaking Bad” character Saul Goodman, a crooked criminal defense attorney. “Better Call Saul” traces the characters beginnings as an earnest public defender named Jimmy McGill, and details his tortured relationship with his brother Chuck (Michael McKean) and how he grew involved in the criminal underworld of Albuquerque, N.M.
Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk has credited his co-star Rhea Seehorn for saving his life following a heart-related medical emergency on set last year. In July 2021, Odenkirk suffered a heart attack while on the set of the Breaking Bad spin-off, and the star was later admitted to hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Shortly after the incident he confirmed that he was doing well and he later returned to set to continue filming in September.
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Bob Odenkirk, the experience of having a massive heart attack and almost dying on set is something that will be on his mind to some degree for the foreseeable future. The same goes for his co-star, and the woman who saved his life, Rhea Seehorn.The co-stars walked the red carpet at the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica on Sunday, and they spoke with ET's Will Marfuggi about Odenkirk's shocking near-death experience.According to the actor, it was actually more frightening for Seehorn than for himself.«She got scared, I wasn't scared.
Between Billy Fletcher (Jay Kontzle) and Dawn Taylor's (Olivia Bromley) disaster wedding and Vinny Dingle's (Bradley Johnson) shotgun registry office affair with Liv Flaherty (Isobel Steele), Emmerdale has had a fair few marriages recently. However, Bob Hope actor Tony Audenshaw is eager for bosses to add another to their upcoming storylines as he called for Bob and Wendy Posner (Susan Cookson) to get married in what would be his eighth soap wedding.Tony made the comment during today's episode of Lorraine (Monday 7 March). He said: "He needs another wedding doesn't he? Obviously he's with Wendy now and I think that'd be nice," after listing off Bob's many past marriages.
Bob Odenkirk, the experience of having a massive heart attack and almost dying on set is something that will be on his mind to some degree for the foreseeable future. The same goes for his co-star, and the woman who saved his life, Rhea Seehorn.The co-stars walked the red carpet at the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica on Sunday, and they spoke with ET's Will Marfuggi about Odenkirk's shocking near-death experience.According to the actor, it was actually more frightening for Seehorn than for himself.«She got scared, I wasn't scared.
Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn joked about his heart attack on stage at the Spirit Awards.
Breaking Bad and his own spinoff Better Call Saul, which has just finished shooting its final season, he certainly has a pretty expensive history in TV. Odenkirk has both written and performed in Saturday Night Live sketches, back when some of the most iconic sketches were debuting on the show.
Howard Stern this week.At the time, Bob was directing projects that "weren't great" and didn't pay well. He admits he lacked creativity and was visionless. Soon, he was in a "financial hole" and taking any gig that he could get his hands on, regardless of pay.His business manager told him, "'Money is money, whatever you can make.
Bob Odenkirk revealed he was in a "financial hole" and bankrupt before he was offered a role on "Breaking Bad." Odenkirk opened up about his financial issues during a recent interview on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show. "Yes, I was. Which was crazy," Odenkirk responded when Stern brought up his bankruptcy.
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