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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk: ‘Without CPR I’d have been dead in minutes’

Bob Odenkirk at his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star unveiling ceremony this year.
Bob Odenkirk at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony this year. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

The actor Bob Odenkirk has spoken about his collapse on the set of Better Call Saul, saying that if his colleagues had not performed CPR on him he would have been “dead in a few minutes”.

Odenkirk, 59, was shooting the final season of the Breaking Bad prequel in New Mexico when he collapsed due to a heart attack last year. Crew members called an ambulance, which took him to hospital for emergency surgery to clean out the artery that the actor called “the widowmaker”.

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