Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterBob Odenkirk exudes everyman energy. At a glance, the actor — best known as the morally malleable criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill (who later becomes Saul Goodman) on “Breaking Bad” and later “Better Call Saul” — is more suburban dad than Rambo.
Odenkirk gets it. In fact, he was pretty sure he would get laughed out of the room when he pitched himself as the next great action star.It was to his genuine surprise that the idea wasn’t just embraced, but eventually materialized in the role of Hutch Mansell in “Nobody,” a rock-’em-sock-’em thriller directed by Ilya Naishuller that debuts in theaters on March 26.“I was shocked that each person who heard me say it was like, ‘I see what you mean,'” he recalls.
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