Bob Odenkirk: ‘Soon people won’t remember Breaking Bad’

He charmed as slimeball lawyer Saul in the drugs drama and its spinoff - but now Bob Odenkirk has gone badass in action thriller Nobody. Has he left his comedy days behind?

On the surface, Bob Odenkirk's new film is entirely preposterous. As the story of a man who goes on a murder spree after his house is broken into, Nobody is an all-out, full-throated action movie. In one scene, 58-year-old Odenkirk tears a handrail off the inside of a bus and beats a man senseless with it.

However, as he explains, the story stems from something much more personal. My family had two break-ins," he reveals from his home in LA, where he's sitting beneath a vast Chinatown poster. It was very damaging."