While Better Call Saul came 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’s Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon. Odenkirk was also up for Best Actor in a Drama Series, but Kevin Costner was the one who picked up the win for his role in the Paramount Network series Yellowstone.
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 the Breaking Bad universe. Most notably, a scene in Better Call Saul reveals the morning after he seduced a woman by pretending to be the Dances with Wolves star, utilizing Odenkirk’s real-life physical resemblances to Costner.
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On Twitter, the official account for Better Call Saul shared 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 the Breaking Bad universe 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. In Breaking Bad, Odenkirk’s Jimmy/Saul is speaking with Bryan Cranston’s Walter White and mentions how he once convinced a woman that he was Costner, adding that “it worked because I believed it.”
Fast forward to Better 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.
