{"id":2007606,"date":"2025-09-08T23:33:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T23:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2007606"},"modified":"2025-09-08T23:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T23:33:28","slug":"why-normal-star-bob-odenkirk-loves-playing-characters-audiences-underestimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-normal-star-bob-odenkirk-loves-playing-characters-audiences-underestimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018Normal\u2019 Star Bob Odenkirk Loves Playing Characters Audiences \u2018Underestimate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0644022\/\">Bob Odenkirk<\/a> loves playing a \u201cdope\u201d and someone you \u201cunderestimate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3032476\/\">Better Call Saul<\/a>\u201d alum has in part built the latter half of his career out of playing that kind of guy \u2013 most famously as Saul Goodman in \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0903747\/\">Breaking Bad<\/a>\u201d and the aforementioned prequel spinoff. More recently, Odenkirk has brought that love of playing a dope to the action genre in films like \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7888964\/\">Nobody<\/a>\u201d and its sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there\u2019s \u201cNormal,\u201d a new action flick from \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7888964\/\">Nobody<\/a>\u201d screenwriter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4401003\/\">Derek Kolstad<\/a> co-writing with Odenkirk that premiered this week at the Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love it. I love playing a person you underestimate and a person who\u2019s thinking a lot,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Odenkirk loves playing a \u201cdope\u201d and someone you \u201cunderestimate.\u201d The \u201cBetter Call Saul\u201d alum has in part built the latter half of his career out of playing that kind of guy \u2013 most famously as Saul Goodman in \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d and the aforementioned prequel spinoff. 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