

The residual feelings of frustration and anger are real and stayed with me. My family has had two break-ins here in L.A., and the first one was particularly traumatic.

You were inspired to make this movie, in part, by some very frightening personal experiences. He’s always shifting his approach to try to get over the latest wrinkle or issue in front of him. And I think I have the components for an action lead in this “Better Call Saul” character that I play. When I first approached it, my brain said, “Maybe I could do an action movie.” I’m in good shape I could maybe learn if I had time.

It’s not easy to figure out what connects this to everything else in my career, and I’m not sure I can make it easy for you. Was it the next logical step for you after “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul”? ‘The Underground Railroad’: Barry Jenkins’s transfixing adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel is fabulistic yet grittily real.‘Succession’: In the cutthroat HBO drama about a family of media billionaires, being rich is nothing like it used to be.‘Dickinson’: The Apple TV+ series is a literary superheroine’s origin story that’s dead serious about its subject yet unserious about itself.‘Inside’: Written and shot in a single room, Bo Burnham’s comedy special, streaming on Netflix, turns the spotlight on internet life mid-pandemic.Here are some of the highlights selected by The Times’s TV critics: Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope. The film, which Universal will release on Friday in theaters and April 16 on-demand, casts Odenkirk as Hutch Mansell, a seemingly nondescript suburban husband and father who is shaken by a break-in at his home, an incident that drives him to violent revenge and a reckoning with his own past. Now the 58-year-old actor is looking to make another change in his trajectory, one that’s equally, if not more, surprising: starring in the action thriller “Nobody.” The role is a professional plot twist that continues to delight Odenkirk as well as his longtime fans who first got to know him as a writer and performer of absurdist comedy sketches on “Saturday Night Live,” “The Ben Stiller Show” and “Mr. Over five seasons, he has played the unscrupulous lawyer Jimmy McGill on his downward path to becoming the venal Saul Goodman, the character he introduced on “Breaking Bad.” Click to view our full Rating System Policy.On “Better Call Saul,” Bob Odenkirk has walked a careful line between wry comedy and soul-baring drama. You must be at least 17 years old with ID or accompanied by a parent or guardian (Age 21 or older) to view an R-rated movie. Please note that there is a non-refundable surcharge of $1.25 per NEW movie ticket to purchase tickets online. Skip the lines and buy tickets online or at our self service ticket kiosk located in our lobby! 3D Surcharge: $2.50 Sales Tax Not Included.
