‘Better Call Saul’ co-creator was “ready to dump the whole thing” after Bob Odenkirk’s heart attack

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Better Call Saul, has spoken out about when the show’s star Bob Odenkirk suffered a heart attack during shooting.READ MORE: Bob Odenkirk reveals why he lost ‘The Office’ role to Steve CarellOdenkirk’s heart attack happened in July 2021, when he collapsed whilst on a break from filming the eighth episode of the show’s sixth and final season.In an excerpt from Alan Sepinwall’s new book Saul Goodman v.

Jimmy McGill: The Complete Critical Companion To Better Call Saul, shared by Rolling Stone, Gould talked about the day of the star’s medical emergency, the aftermath, and what it could have meant for the show.When asked about the days after the heart attack, Gould replied saying that he and the showrunners weren’t sure whether Better Call Saul would continue.He said: “The doctors said [Odenkirk] needs to sit in a room lit by candlelight and he needs time to recover.“Honest to God, we didn’t know if we were going to have a show or if we were going to finish it.

And it felt so completely irrelevant, because it’s when you realise it’s just a fucking piece of entertainment.”He continued: “We were ready to dump the whole thing.

I mean, I wasn’t thinking about that. It’s too complicated. It was too big to really kind of think it through. But I’m sure somebody deep in the bowels of Sony had to start doing some calculations about what kind of loss they’d have to take, and thank God it didn’t happen.”Thankfully, Odenkirk recovered and was able to return to shooting – without Gould and the writers having to adapt any of the scripts.“We didn’t change a damn thing,” Gould said. “Writing-wise, we didn’t change a thing and we didn’t have to.