“Everyone evolves, I don’t evolve,” snarked Jonathan Banks today at Deadline’s Contenders TV about his character, ex-cop Mike Ehrmantraut between Breaking Bad and spinoff Better Call Saul.
Then turning to the star on the latter show, Bob Odenkirk, Banks exclaimed, “I’ve been doing this professionally for 53 years and I’ve never seen anybody — I thought how can he pull this off?”“When Bobby Odenkirk came in to do Better Call Saul, the first episode he was nervous as a cat; he was dry-mouth, he lost his voice,” recalled Banks.“Ya know, he pulled this off.
I’ve never seen anybody do what he did,” added the Wiseguy and Beverly Hills Cop thespian, “Because we’re looking at a comedy writer here for crissakes.”“Sorry, I had no choice,” joked back Odenkirk, “I signed a contract.”“Thank you for joining me in this show, because I could have ended your career finally.
I could have put a big ole cork in it,” he further quipped.Contenders TV: Deadline’s Complete CoverageThe sixth and final season of Better Call Saul is broken into two parts.
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