Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Thor”) received a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut, a popular revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross.” But about 30 years ago, if he left, he would have starred in a very different work of David Mamet's famous drama.

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“Around '97-'98, I wrote to David Mamet and asked if he could do all the comedians of 'glengarry glen ross' with Fred Willard, the theater podcast for Stagecraft's new series Variety. "I'll be Ricky Roma, David Cross and others will be there too. I said: 'If we change it so that we can not sell the land, but sell the boilers and pots? "He never wrote it."

Odenkirk has wanted to play in the show since then. When asked why, he replied, "I can't help but think about my roots. My father, not my friend, would take me and my brother to his office until I was about seven or eight years old and we would have lunch with him and his friends and his friends. 'Glengarry.'"

He continued, "So I don't know about the play. You said, 'Okay, I thought you didn't like your dad. Do you want to get close to him or whatever?" I don't know, I want to play with those guys with them, I want to live in their shoes for a while.

Odenkirk begins his sketch comedy, which is looser and more improvised than the perfect clockwork performed on Mamet Play. His approach to "Glengarry" ended up being an extension of how he worked on "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul".

"For 'Breaking Bad', when I first got the script, I almost started marking the first script, like: 'OK, what if you say that? What if you shorten this script?' Like I've been in comedy all my life, and then I immediately thought, "You know what?" I think a real actor is: If he says these phrases, if he repeats himself, whose role is he?

Also in the new episode of "Stagecraft," Odenkirk elaborates on the honor of being a Tony nominee - "To be invited and embraced and nodded by this Broadway community, the communities you can see are really each other, special" and reveals why he was scared of his first Broadway project.

"The truth is, it's intimidating, I told myself not," he said. "I told myself that it's no big deal. It's just one stage. I'm already in the million stage. But it's another level and I'm not preparing for it, anxious."

But, he added, he grew up to love it. "The audience on Broadway shows have the best fucking energy you can work from. It's the best. So now I'm watching other dramas."

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