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Bob Odenkirkis feeling grateful on the one-year anniversary of his heart attack.
The Emmy-nominatedBetter Call Saulstar, 59, shared a candid message of thanks on social media Tuesday, expressing gratitude to the support he’s received in the last year after he suffered a heart attack on July 27, 2021 on the set of the Breaking Bad spinoff’s sixth and final season.
“A thank you to you, whoever you are,” the actor wrote on Twitter. “A year ago today I briefly flirted with ‘quietus’ and this elicited a wave of goodwill and warmth towards me.”
“I will forever feel unworthy of it,” Odenkirk added in his statement. “I will also always be appreciative and look to pass it on. Thank you. No reply necessary.”
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Odenkirk’s heart attack happened whilefilming scenes for the the ninth episode ofBetter Call Saul’s sixth season, “Point and Shoot,“last July. Odenkirk toldThe New York Timesin a February interview that an on-set health safety supervisor and an assistant director on the series performed CPR andshocked him with an automated defibrillator three timesto re-start his heart before he was taken a hospital.
Earlier this month, Odenkirk confirmed which episode the heart attack occurred toThe Hollywood Reporter, noting that “probably about three quarters of the scene was shot before I had the heart attack, the day of the heart attack, and then the other quarter scene was after.”
The actor and comedian, known for his work in sketch comedy before he took on his now-starring role as Saul Goodman on the AMC series, toldTHRhe took a five-week break to recover from the heart attack before returning to finish shootingBetter Call Saul’s final episodes.
“And then when I went back, we limited our shooting to 12-hour days …. And so they took care of me and I was able to do it,” he toldTHR. “And hopefully you can’t tell when I had the heart attack and when I didn’t.”
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Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman in Better Call Saul.Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television
Odenkirk, who also mentioned in that interview that he does not remember filming parts of the episode, previously told PEOPLE he has no memory of the heart attack. He said that cast and crew members who witnessed the emergency had to fill him in on the details.
“I would say that the cast and crew were more traumatized than me, because I have a blank space where I had this heart attack,” Odenkirktold PEOPLEin April. “I don’t remember the day it happened or the next week and a half. They all were standing right there. And they watched me go down, and they watched them use the defibrillator three times on me, and they watched the professionals around look at each other and say he’s not coming back.”
“They all went through that, and I didn’t. But I did go through it afterward when they shared the stories with me and they did, and I asked them to,” he recalled.
Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler and Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill in Better Call Saul.Nicole Wilder/AMC/Sony Pictures Television
Better Call Saulis currently airing its final season. Just after the midseason premiere, Odenkirk was nominated for the outstanding lead actor in a drama seriesEmmy Awardfor his role as Saul Goodman.
TheBreaking Badprequel was also nominated for outstanding drama series.Rhea Seehornwas also nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for her role as Kim Wexler in the final season.
Better Call Saulairs Mondays at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.
source: people.com
