Bob Odenkirk is known for his comedic chops, but in Nobody, he showed he is capable of more than just cracking a joke.
In his recent appearance on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, the Better Call Saul star revealed one of the reasons for doing his action-packed film.
“[Robert] Smigel and [Adam] Sandler and everybody I knew from comedy seeing his performance in Nobody,” he added.
The star continued, “I thought of you guys often when I was exercising and thinking that’s just a reason to be doing this is if I could pull it off. That would blow my friends’ minds.”
Mentioning his friend David Spade, Bob said he was imagining him watching himself doing action.
“I kept thinking about Spade, I don’t know why,” the actor quipped. “He would go see it and go like, ‘What the ****?'”
Following this, Conan shared his reaction to the film, admitting he had not given it much thought before it premiered. “When it came out, I was just, ‘Oh, he’s so good at this.'”
The original film’s logline read, “Hutch Mansell (Odenkirk), an assassin turned mild-mannered family man, who has to save his family after they become targets of a vengeful crime lord.”
Nobody 2 will be out on August 15.
