Better call…Hang?
Bob Odenkirk is famous for playing deceitful lawyer Sal Goodman in Better Call Saulback to tv in Lucky Hank play the role of Hank Upset Devereux Middle-aged English department chairman and lecturer at a low-rent Pennsylvania college. in comedy Husband and father go through a midlife crisis driven by eligible Generation Z students, their clever but quirky co-workers. and doubts about his career (The school’s bookstore doesn’t have a single volume of his novels.)
This project is based on a 1997 novel. straight manby Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo Odenkirk — who said that as a college kid, He dreams of being a Jack Kerouac-style novelist — so heartwarming about this in part because it takes him back to his comedy roots: “Sometimes Saul is funny. But he wasn’t part of the joke. Hank is a wise man. He laughed at his situation as he suffered.”
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actors also like “The positive side of it Saul is a tough guy. he is alone He wants Kim (Ria Seahorn) to love him, but they’ve never fully embraced each other.” Hank benefits from a strong relationship with his wife, Lily, the cheerful vice-principal of the high school. chapter by killMirail Enos “Hank is a spoiled brat,” observes Odenkirk. “He loves his wife. and she loved him.”
When Hank scolds a student (Which demands criticism!) The consequences threatened his tenure and fractured his home life. Odenkirk is no stranger to midlife shock after having a heart attack on set. Sol. ′′ Hair growth. or anything that could happen from that heart attack I am still in the middle,” he says. “I am working with work-life balance in mind. I want to make the right choices (I do) the best I can with the rest of my time for the things I love.”
For Hank, those are Lily and Julie. College-age daughter (Olivia Scott Welch) notes Odenkirk: “Hank might think he’s unlucky, but the more you look at it, the more you think, wow, you’re lucky.”
Lucky Hank series premiere, Sunday March 19 AMC, IFC, BBC America, SundanceTV
