If there was any lingering doubt regarding Bob Odenkirk‘s late-career reinvention as a legit everyman action star, Normal handily seals the deal. Having proved himself up to the task after Nobody and Nobody 2, he wildly ups the ante with an unapologetically over-the-top small-town crime thriller. Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad from …
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Bob Odenkirk took on his action-packed role in 2021’s Nobody in part to show his former Saturday Night Live colleagues a new side of him. Stopping by the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, Odenkirk told his longtime pal O’Brien some of the reasons why he decided to delve into the action world. For starters, he said he was interested …
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Nobody has had a career quite like Bob Odenkirk. It was one thing to go from a comedy writer and performer on SNL in late ‘80s to his own beloved HBO sketch comedy series, Mr. Show with Bob and David, in the mid-’90s. But to reinvent himself as an equally effective comedic and dramatic actor in his late 40s and …
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