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The going-nutty professor

Bob Odenkirk spent nearly 14 years playing fast-talking conman-turned-lawyer Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and its spin-off prequel, Better Call Saul.

It almost killed him. In July 2021, Odenkirk suffered a heart attack while filming.

“I was trending,” he says. “Any time someone trends on Twitter, I get scared if it’s a celebrity. But in this case, it was a near-death experience and people found out. It was a rare moment when the Twitter universe came together with just an outpouring of love.

“I was knocked out by the response. I heard about it over the following two weeks because I had a

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