Bob Odenkirk Wants to Be a Different Kind of Action Star in Normal | Fan Fest 2026

Star of the caller action-packed thriller Normal, Bob Odenkirk, joined IGN Fan Fest 2026 to speech astir his relation successful the instauration of his quality Ulysses, and wherefore helium does his ain stunts.

"I similar doing my ain fighting. And if I'm doing my ain fighting, they tin support the camera connected maine and I tin play the guy. I tin bash his expressions," Odenkirk explained. "I wanted to play a feline who really got hurt, who really got worn down arsenic you ticker the movie. He gets tired. He gets hurt. He gets dinged up due to the fact that I conscionable consciousness similar that is really not thing you've seen a batch of. Action stars that I cognize of, I don't cognize each of them, but the ones that I cognize are somewhat... they're machines. They ne'er truly get hurt. They ne'er accrue damage. And I wanted to play a feline who successful these movies starts with a small spot of self-doubt and besides accrues harm on the way."

His quality successful Normal, Ulysses, is simply a antheral sent to beryllium impermanent sheriff to the municipality of Normal, Minnesota, and soon finds himself caught up successful mode much excitement than helium was expecting.

Odenkirk besides spoke astir his quality successful Normal compared to Hutch Mansell from the Nobody movies. "Both guys are, for antithetic reasons, holding backmost their reactionary impulses. In the lawsuit of Hutch, he's doing it to contiguous arsenic a household antheral and to unrecorded that life, to unrecorded a treble life, forcing himself to clasp that in. So that's nobody. In Normal, here's a feline who's a small spot breached erstwhile we conscionable him. And it's due to the fact that helium made a prime erstwhile earlier that conscionable destroyed his beingness that helium had, his cleanable life. And truthful he's conscionable gotten gun-shy. But judge me, by the extremity of the movie Normal, he's not gun-shy immoderate longer. Is helium gun-crazy? A small bit. He's a small spot gun-crazy."

Normal is directed by Ben Wheatley and besides stars Henry Winkler and Lena Headey. It volition beryllium released successful theaters connected April 17.

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Rachel Weber is the Head of Editorial Development astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, Red Dead Redemption 2, and her Love and Deepspace boyfriends.