“I’m your real friend and Vince Gilligan is not,” joked the actor.
Carol Burnettalmost met an untimely end onBetter Call Saul.
Or so he tells it.
Bob Odenkirk and Carol Burnett on ‘Better Call Saul’.Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television
“Carol, there’s something that you should know,” he said.
“Vince wanted my character to kill you in that scene.
Look at him, he’s shaking his head.
His exact words to me were, ‘Saul ends up killing Carol Burnett.’
But I refused, and I told him I’d walk.”
That’s all I wanted to say.
That I’m your real friend and Vince is not.
“It’s a moment where the clouds parted and sanity returned,” he said.
“It looks like sanity prevailed there for a moment.
And really, how could you seriously think you’re going to menace and hurt Carol Burnett?
Marion has been nothing but kind to him.
Because I don’t like this guy at all.
I want nothing to do with this guy.
He’s a bastard!”
