We spoke w/ mrbobodenkirk about LuckyHank and saying goodbye to BetterCallSaul.
From show creators Aaron Zelman and Paul Lieberstein, and adapted from the novel Straight Man by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo, the eight-episode dramedy series Lucky Hank follows Hank Devereaux Jr. , the chairman of the English department at Railton College in Pennsylvania.
BOB ODENKIRK: I read this six months to a year before Saul ended, and I liked it. There was so much that I liked about it, so I said I would do this show. Saul had not even ended. As far as doing it so quickly after, I just didn’t think it would go that quickly. I thought there would be a year after Saul before we’d take a run at this.
Now that you’ve closed the door on Saul, did leaving him behind make you more emotional or was it more impactful on you personally than you expected? ODENKIRK: Very much so. Absolutely. That was the top conversation when we started, and when we finished. It was the running through line of our conversation. You nailed it look. Aaron [Zelman] comes from a totally different place than Paul [Lieberstein] comes from, and then I come from a mix of all of that. This show, to me, is 50/50 drama and comedy, which is really hard to do and rarely done. I feel like Alexander Payne does it wonderfully, but outside of him, I don’t know who does it so well.
This is such an interesting character because he’s a bit reluctant, he’s kind of ambivalent, and he can be crabby, but he’s also quite funny and you can see that he loves his family. How do you view him, and how do you think that compares to how he views himself? ODENKIRK: It’s risky. I think it’ll feel refreshing to people. I don’t think there’s gonna be a whole lot they can compare it to, that’s on TV right now. It might be a great reprieve from all those other shows, where there’s no question what the stakes are because somebody’s waving a gun around.
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