Bob Odenkirk isn’t an action newbie anymore

NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Odenkirk ducks into a West Village coffee shop wearing sunglasses and a Chicago Cubs cap.

Some degree of subterfuge might have been necessary for Odenkirk years ago. Surely fans of “Mr. Show” or “The Larry Sanders Show” might have recognized him. But with time, Odenkirk has traveled from the fringes of pop culture to the mainstream. He’s well-known now, but for what is a moving target.

At 62, Odenkirk is not only a comic icon, he’s a six-time Emmy-nominated actor, for “Better Call Saul,” a Tony-nominated Broadway star, for “Glengarry Glen Ross,” and, most surprisingly, an action star.

He’s not even a newbie, either. With “Nobody 2,” the sequel to the 2021 pandemic hit original , Odenkirk’s butt-kicking bona fides are more or less established. In the sequel, which ope