When making the first Nobody back in the pre-COVID days of 2019, Bob Odenkirk refused to let himself think about the project as the start of a potential action franchise. Despite spending more than a year training for the gig, he viewed it first and foremost as a creative gamble. Even so, he confides to us during a recent sit-down interview in a couple of lawn chairs that he never stopped going to the gym or hitting the punching bag in all the years between Nobody 1 and Nobody 2 . That includes the pandemic years between production and release.

“I did train hard and I kept up the training between the films,” Odenkirk reveals to us. “I didn’t stop, even though we of course had no idea how well Nobody 1 would do.” To maintain that regimen during delays hints at steely dedication.

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