Bob Odenkirk is still training in the gym to launch a Jackie Chan-style acting career

Bob Odenkirk better call his trainer because the 'Better Call Saul' star is determined to become the action movie hero.

The Emmy winner revealed at the 2022 Venice Film Festival while promoting Cecilia Miniucchi's 'Worlds Apart' that his role as lawyer Saul in the 'Breaking Bad' prequel series had inspired his role as a hit man in "Nobody".

"I was very surprised by 'Nobody.' I started this project because I felt that the character I was developing in 'Better Call Saul' was the kind of character you see in an action movie," Odenkirk explained. , via Deadline. "He has sincere desires and he was willing to sacrifice himself."

Odenkirk added, "I still practice several times a week, and if I'm successful, you'll see me doing more action. I found the action sequences to be very entertaining and close to sketch comedy . I love the early Jackie Chan films, which had humor in it. I would love to get that in the future."

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And in the vein of humorous action sequences, Odenkirk joked, "It's almost like people like to see old people lose their shit. Why does that make sense to everyone? C is funny."

Odenkirk has previously said that 'Nobody' was inspired by two real-life burglaries he suffered.

"Hopefully we can do a trilogy and he'll have nothing," Odenkirk said of his franchise dreams for the character. "He destroys everything he loves."

“Nobody” premiered in 2021 and was produced by “Bullet Train” director and “John Wick” co-director David Leitch. Leitch confirmed earlier this year that Derek Kolstad is working on a script for a sequel to "Nobody," which will again be directed by Ilya Naishuller.

"Oh, I think everyone's really excited about it," Leitch said. "Everyone involved is like, 'Full Steam.' We're in the scripting process, and I think we had so much fun doing it. [Co-producer] Kelly [McCormick] and I had a blast, actors had a blast, the studio loved the results and it's happening. I mean, I think it's happening as fast as we can get it."

To turn Hutch Mansell into a 'person', who is out for revenge after a violent crime occurs in his suburban neighborhood, director Naishuller previously revealed to IndieWire that Odenkirk trained for two years to play the role.

"Bob could have said, 'Ilya, you have a stuntman, you have a shaky camera, you do all the usual stuff. And it works,'" Naishuller said. "People don't usually care [ that]. I hate that. So I was very lucky, thanks to Bob's training, to be able to shoot it like a real movie, not just like a very cinematic stuntman, shaking, chopping, every half second. Every cut we make in the movie, it's not because we had to, it's because we wanted to. And it's a wonderful, wonderful place to be for a director."

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