Wanted to pass along another tidbit from the ‘Breaking Bad’ roundtable I wrote about the other day. When Bob Odenkirk was asked by one of the reporters if he modeled his character of slimy lawyer Saul Goodman on TV televangelists like Joel Osteen and various media hucksters, he agreed that those people informed his character. But the biggest influence on how he played Saul wasn’t a huckster; it was legendary movie producer Robert Evans.
“I’ve never had a part with this many lines that someone else wrote. Even for myself, even that I wrote. Anything I’ve ever written for myself, I’ve never had these monologues. So that was intimidating,” said Odenkirk. “I thought, if your cadence doesn’t change, if you don’t have an interesting delivery to this, you’re never going to be able to listen to this three pages of dialogue from this one guy.”
He cited the audiobook to Evans’ autobiography ‘The Kid Stays In The Picture’ for helping him deal with those monologues.
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