The critically praised spin-off of Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, has amazingly garnered 46 Emmy nominations without a single victory for any of them. The AMC series would collect nominations for the most coveted categories, including Best Lead Actor and Outstanding Drama Series. Although the series would conclude in 2022, fans of the show may have to endure a longer wait to see if the last season can finally take home any golden statues, as the 2023 Emmys get delayed to January of 2024 due to the strikes.
Bob Odenkirk would receive nominations over the years for his stint on the show, but his co-star, Rhea Seehorn, sees her second nomination as Kim Wexler for the last season. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Seehorn admits she’s not fully ready to leave her Better Call Saul character behind. “I don’t think that I will ever forget her. I hope one day there’s an occasion to revisit these characters. Getting to play one character over the course of seven years, and the massive allowance of evolving and subtext and growth that they allowed us to play — she feels very three-dimensional as a human to me. There are parts of her that, as an actor and as a human, I am still trying to learn from, but I’m not fully successful,” Seehorn says.
When the final season was in production, the actress says it didn’t quite impact her that it was the end. According to Seehorn, Odenkirk himself had not felt it either until it aired. “It began to sink in that we’re doing the finale finale — not a season finale but a series finale. Although I agree with Bob; he has said that it kind of wasn’t until it aired, and then you really started to realize, “Oh, we’re not going back.” Because normally, we wait for a long time and it airs and then we’ll go back [into production]. But in the beginning, there was an awareness that these are their final stories that we’re telling — at least for now. Luckily, it felt appropriate. It felt very real for the characters and it felt very satisfying after having worked on them for so long, to do these things together in the end.”
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