WhileBetter Call Saulcame up short at the Golden Globe Awards, the team behind the series had some fun by pointing out the irony behind Bob Odenkirk’s loss. At the Golden Globes, the series was up for Best Drama, ultimately losing out to HBO’sGame of Thronesprequel seriesHouse of the Dragon. Odenkirk was also up for Best Actor in a Drama Series, butKevin Costnerwas the one who picked up the win for his role in the Paramount Network seriesYellowstone. While many fans felt the show was robbed, others are finding amusement in Costner beating Odenkirk for the Best Actor award. Fans may recall that Costner was mentioned by Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill (aka Saul Goodman) at different times in theBreaking Baduniverse. Most notably, a scene inBetter Call Saulreveals the morning after he seduced a woman by pretending to be theDances with Wolvesstar, utilizing Odenkirk’s real-life physical resemblances to Costner.On Twitter, theofficial account forBetter Call Saulshared a brief clip from the aforementioned scene, featuring the woman recognizing that Jimmy McGill isn’t Kevin Costner at all. The video speaks for itself with the tweet adding congrats to Costner for his big win at the Golden Globes.
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Mentioning Costner in theBreaking Baduniverse started as a one-off joke that wasn’t originally written to have a payoff years later in a prequel, but that’s how things turned out. InBreaking Bad, Odenkirk’s Jimmy/Saul is speaking with Bryan Cranston’s Walter White and mentions how he once convinced a woman that hewasCostner, adding that “it worked because I believed it.”
Fast forward toBetter Call Saul, which shows us more of Jimmy’s backstory in the years before he became Walter’s attorney. At one point, he goes and stays with his old pal Marco (Mel Rodriguez) in Illinois with the two pulling off various schemes in the area. One scene has the two in Marco’s apartment the morning after a night out, starting with one woman recognizing that she man she spent the night with wasn’t Costner. She angrily leaves with a friend she brought along who’d stayed with Marco, also conned into believing him to be Costner’s manager.
With all of that said, it’s easy to see why fans are amused by Costner defeating Odenkirk for the Golden Globe on Tuesday night.
