Bob Odenkirk<\/a> took on his action-packed role in 2021’s Nobody<\/a> in part to show his former Saturday Night Live<\/a> colleagues a new side of him.<\/p>\n Stopping by the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend<\/a> podcast, Odenkirk told his longtime pal O’Brien<\/a> some of the reasons why he decided to delve into the action world. For starters, he said he was interested in getting free gym sessions.<\/p>\n He was also motivated by the thought of O’Brien, “[Robert] Smigel<\/a> and [Adam] Sandler<\/a> and everybody I knew from comedy” seeing his performance in Nobody. <\/p>\n “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,” he said. “That would blow my friends’ minds.”<\/p>\n Nobody follows 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.<\/p>\n The Better Call Saul star said he kept picturing David Spade<\/a> watching and reacting to the movie.<\/p>\n “I kept thinking about Spade, I don’t know why,” he joked. “He would go see it and go like, ‘What the f—?'”<\/p>\n O’Brien recalled Odenkirk telling him about Nobody before it premiered. The former Tonight Show host admitted that he didn’t think much of it until he saw the film.<\/p>\n “When it came out, I was just, ‘Oh, he’s so good at this,'” O’Brien said.<\/p>\n Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic, Inc<\/p>\n ‘SNL’ writers including Conan O’Brien, Robert Smigel, Phil Hartman, Bob Odenkirk, Mike Myers, and Al Franken at the 1989 Emmy Awards<\/p><\/div>\n Want more movie news? Sign up for\u00a0Entertainment Weekly<\/a>‘s free newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.<\/strong><\/p>\n In fact, O’Brien enjoyed the film so much that he asked the Breaking Bad actor for a cameo in the upcoming sequel. While Nobody 2<\/a> comes out on Aug. 15, it doesn’t appear that the comedian got his wish. He requested a third installment be made so he could join the cast.<\/p>\n “I\u00a0just want to be beaten,” he said. “I want someone to beat the s— out of me.”<\/p>\n Listen to the full episode of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend with Bob Odenkirk below.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n