Bob Odenkirk has played a police chief (in Fargo), a pair of reverends (in Ed and 2019’s Little Women adaptation), the President (in Long Shot), and the Devil himself (in Hell and Back), but the actor has yet to play a kingly kind of leader. And while he apparently doesn’t have any love for monarchies on the whole, the Better Call Saul vet was shocked to discover that he’s directly tied to a royal bloodline. And it’s not one of Slippin’ Jimmy’s scams, either.
Even with Better Call Saul having set the most unfortunate Emmy record possible already in 2024, Bob Odenkirk was all smiles during his conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr. on PBS’ Finding Your Roots, where he was primed to share his thoughts on the monarchic ruling system. In his words:
