10 Actors Who Refused To Change Their Bodies For Movie Roles
7. Bob Odenkirk Doesn't Need To Look Like A Superhero - Nobody
Proving that the world of taking names and kicking asses isn't strictly reserved for folks with an extensive background in martial arts or a body chiselled out of adamantium, Bob Odenkirk decided to take his career in an unexpected direction in 2021 after taking up the role of Hutch Mansell in the action thriller Nobody.
With the Breaking Bad and Better Caul Saul star playing what appears to be an everyman with the skills and knowhow to hold his own against even the most savage of enemies in the hard-hitting flick, Odenkirk flat-out refused to be something that the character wasn't. In other words, he wasn't in any rush to put his body through hell to forge washboard abs or biceps capable of crushing watermelons.
Odenkirk put it best when confessing to The Guardian, "I said: 'I want to do my own fighting, but I also want to look like a dad.'"
It's this combination of deadly killing machine locked inside of a seemingly harmless run-of-the-mill family man that made Odenkirk's performance in Nobody so damn compelling in the first place. So, good on him for swimming against the bulging bodies frequently clogging up the majority of Hollywood's action-packed pictures.