Actor Bob Odenkirk has opened up about his near-death expertise final yr on the set of his TV present Higher Name Saul.
The 59-year-old mentioned the scary “coronary heart incident” throughout an look on the US Immediately present, through which he recalled the traumatic day on set again in July 2021.
“My widow-maker artery was utterly blocked,” Odenkirk defined. “That is why it is referred to as the ‘widow-maker’, since you die when that occurs. However I went down. And I used to be very fortunate that my co-stars, Rhea Seehorn and Patrick Fabian, had been proper close by.”
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Odenkirk stated it was “traumatised” Seehorn and Fabian who instantly rushed over and raised the alarm when he collapsed, and the present’s well being officer Rosa Estrada started CPR on him.
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“They got here out and did CPR correctly immediately, broke my ribs such as you’re presupposed to and carried on till the ambulance arrived,” the actor defined to Willie Geist. “And in addition, Rosa had an AED machine, which is a defibrillator, in her automobile. So as a result of she had that, she was capable of go get it and it took solely three tries.”
Final month, Odenkirk opened up in regards to the incident for the primary time in an interview with The New York Occasions, revealing to the publication he had a historical past of coronary heart points.
“I would recognized since 2018 that I had this plaque buildup in my coronary heart,” he stated. “I went to 2 coronary heart docs at Cedars-Sinai, and I had dye and an MRI and all that stuff, and the docs disagreed.”
One physician informed the actor he ought to begin treatment, whereas one other stated he may wait and Odenkirk adopted the latter recommendation. Till one “a kind of items of plaque broke up” whereas he was filming that fateful February day on set.
“We had been capturing a scene, we might been capturing all day, and fortunately I did not return to my trailer,” Odenkirk recalled. “I went to play the Cubs sport and experience my exercise bike [in a communal space where the cast spent downtime], and I simply went down. Rhea stated I began turning bluish-gray immediately.”
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