Actor seeks balance after heart attack
Bob Odenkirk is still processing his feelings after suffering a massive heart attack in July 2021 and says a big takeaway is to strive for a better worklife balance.
“I don’t think I’ve figured it out yet,” the actor said while attending a recent gathering of TV critics. “I have to do a better job because we don’t get to carry on forever. We just don’t ... I want to make the right choices so I can feel like I’m doing the best I can with the time I have left, the things that I love in this world. And I don’t think I’ve figured it out yet, but I’m working on it.”
Odenkirk’s heart attack happened while filming the final season of AMC’s “Better Call Saul.” He returned to work five weeks later and says he didn’t remember what happened, but felt euphoria and also exhaustion.
After production ended on “Saul,” Odenkirk took a family vacation and then went right into his new project, the AMC comedy series “Lucky Hank,” based on the novel “Straight Man” by Richard Russo.
Odenkirk plays Hank Devereaux, a college English professor who is also the chair of the department at an underfunded Pennsylvania college. The audience meets Hank at an unmotivated and uninspired point of his mid-life. The show co-stars Mireille Enos as Lily Devereaux.
Odenkirk jokes that with choosing his next project at AMC, he “could’ve been a zombie,” referencing the channel’s “The Walking Dead” franchise, but was drawn to the solid relationships portrayed in “Lucky Hank” and the humor.
“Saul was really alone. He had nothing ... It was a tough guy to play, he was so alone. I like that this guy loves his wife, she loves
him ... I like the humor of him, he’s funny, and he knows he’s being funny. He’s making jokes all the time.”
“Lucky Hank” debuts March 19.
Legend, Teigen welcome baby:
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen have welcomed a new baby.
Legend revealed at a concert Friday that his wife gave birth earlier in the day, People magazine reported. Further details about the newborn were not immediately revealed.
Teigen, 37, and Legend, 44, are also parents to daughter Luna, 6, and son Miles, 4. In 2020, Teigen lost her pregnancy at 20 weeks after a “partial placenta abruption.”
‘Everything Everywhere’ tops Critics Choice Awards:
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” won best picture Sunday at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert also won for best director for the film, while Ke Huy Quan took home best supporting
actor for his role.
“The Whale” star Brendan Fraser won best actor in a movie. “I was in the wilderness, and I probably should have left a trail of breadcrumbs, but you found me,” Fraser told director Darren Aronofsky, choking back tears during his acceptance speech.
“Tar” star Cate Blanchett won best actress in a movie, and Angela Bassett took home supporting actress for the film “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
On the TV side, “Abbott Elementary” won best comedy series, and best drama series went to “Better Call Saul.”
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