In July 2021, Bob Odenkirk suffered a heart attack while filming the sixth and final season of AMC’s “Better Call Saul.”
The 59-year-old, who plays the titular character Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill, was back at work five weeks later.
In just over a month, Odenkirk was back on set finishing up the “Breaking Bad” prequel’s final installments. Last week, the actor told The Hollywood Reporter he was filming the sixth season’s ninth episode when he suffered his heart attack.
But, wait!
The Emmy-nominated actor has now set the record straight telling Entertainment Weekly it was in fact while filming the opening scene of the sixth season’s eighth episode (entitled "Point and Shoot") when the incident occurred. Odenkirk was initially mixed up because his first episode back at work started filming on episode nine, “Fun and Games.”
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“Episode 9 is all stuff we shot after my heart attack, and in fact it is the first stuff I shot,” the actor said while explaining the mix-up to Entertainment Weekly. “The pick-up scenes [from episode 8] were not the first things we shot. So in my brain, I was like, ‘Wait a second, the first things I shot when I came back from the heart attack was [episode] 9.”
Odenkirk has since finished filming the entirety of the final season. He also let viewers know the exact scene in episode eight he was filming at time of the heart attack. The scene and had to be finished after recovering.
“If you’re looking to compare a human being pre- and post- heart attack, you’ll want to look at the scene with Kim and Jimmy, when Lalo was talking to them about the plan,” he said.
The scene mentioned above was filmed about two months after Odenkirk had gone back to work and originally aired earlier this month on July 11th.
The “Mr. Show” creator and co-star also expressed his immense gratitude for all the support he received after his incident. “I thank people for caring about it and if any good can come of it, it can be other 50-plues-year-old people getting into see their doctor and maybe getting a double check on their heart,” he said.
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The sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul” is airing now on AMC and will air its final episode August 15, 2022.
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