"I said, Hey, I'm known as this character Saul who fights. He is clever. He never quits. He gets knocked around by life and he always comes backand that's an action character. Except he doesn't fight, and I'm willing to learn to fight, Odenkirk says. I wonder if somebody would want to write me a story where I get to do that."
"His health was touch and go for a moment, but he eventually recovered from his heart attack so robustly that even his caregivers were surprised. The nurse was like, You have almost no scarring at all, and that's because some of these other veins are bigger than normal. That fed your heart while you were getting CPR, so your heart didn't start to scar up and die during that period where you weren't having a normal heartbeat, which is rare,' he says."
Bob Odenkirk pursued months of muscle building and endurance training to transition from his Saul Goodman persona into a gunslinging, bare-knuckle action hero, collaborating with writer Derek Kolstad on the film Nobody. The intensive conditioning enlarged some coronary vessels and improved cardiovascular endurance. While filming the final episodes of Saul, he suffered a near-lethal heart attack but experienced an unusually robust recovery with minimal scarring. Medical caregivers attributed the limited heart damage to collateral blood flow through enlarged veins that maintained perfusion during CPR. Odenkirk's physical preparation likely prevented extensive myocardial death and may have been life-saving.
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