Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk has a burning question for his fellow Emmy drama actor contenders. “Did you guys see The Jinx? Oh, my God, wasn’t the burping part amazing?” says Odenkirk, laughing.
You know the Emmy race has shifted a bit when the writer who created Chris Farley’s “Matt Foley: Motivational Speaker” sketch on Saturday Night Live is the face of this year’s highest-rated new cable drama. And Odenkirk, 52, isn’t the only performer redefining “drama actor” this year. Joining the Saul star for a free-wheeling conversation is Oscar’s youngest male winner (American Crime’s Timothy Hutton, 54), an Oscar-nominated British film vet (The Knick’s Clive Owen, 50), the screenwriter of Ben Stiller’s Zoolander sequel (The Leftovers’ Justin Theroux, 43), a 1970s film icon and Oscar winner (Ray Donovan’s Jon Voight, 76), and the acclaimed British actor who brought Martin Luther King Jr. to life in Selma (David Oyelowo, 39, of HBO Films’ Nightingale, which premiered May 29). Emmy season’s most eclectic (and often funny) stars sound off on bad scripts and the “blessings” of winning — and not winning — an Oscar.
