Bob Odenkirk
Colleagues revived him
Bob Odenkirk was resuscitated by his colleagues on the set.
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Bob Odenkirk has worked through his collapse at the end of July. He owes his life to the people on the set of Better Call Saul.
In a new interview, Bob Odenkirk (59) reports on his dramatic collapse on the set of “Better Call Saul” in July last year.
“We shot a scene, we shot all day and luckily I didn’t go back to my trailer”, he told the New York Times. Instead, Odenkirk went to a room next to the set where he liked to hang out with his co-stars Rhea Seehorn, 49, and Patrick Fabian, 57.
When he wanted to ride his exercise bike, he fell to the ground. “Rhea said I immediately started going bluish-grey.” Seehorn and Fabian called for help, and the set’s health advisor and a director’s assistant began administering first aid, including using a defibrillator. Only the third shock could bring Odenkirk back to life.
Odenkirk doesn’t remember anything
Odenkirk himself remembers none of this and only knows the episode from retelling. Seehorn sees it as “crazy”: “You didn’t have a near-death experience – you were told you had one.” The “Breaking Bad” star was then only in the hospital for a week. And just months after his heart attack, he was back to work and hiking with the Times reporter.
Odenkirk said he was aware something was wrong with his heart. He has been to two different doctors who gave him different advice. One said to start the medication while the other said he could wait – the option Odenkirk chose.