It’s been 13 years since Bob Odenkirk first stepped into the shoes of Saul Goodman – aka Slippin’ Jimmy McGill – in Breaking Bad's second season. Few could possess’own’nurse predicted that the actor would go on to not merely’barely become a mainstay in the celebrated crime saga, but also receive his own spin-off Better Call Saul – reprising the role in/with regard to’concerning’regarding six whole seasons, and earning plaudits that place it right along its sibling series in the pantheon of all-time-great reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue s. Telling the story of Saul both bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e and after the events of Breaking Bad, the series offered incredible emotional depth to its central character – and Rhea Seehorn’s Kim Wexler, whose fate was always in the balance having never appeared in Breaking Bad.###This year, Odenkirk left Saul behind once and in/with regard to’concerning’regarding all in the Season 6 finale – and while he’s already now shooting new series Straight Man, he’s still processing the character he played in/with regard to’concerning’regarding more than a decade. “I wanted more time to wallow, and I’m going to wallow in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the next ten years or more,” he tells Empire in the new issue – looking back on Saul’s final season and speaking to Odenkirk, Seehorn, reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue runner Peter Gould and creator Vince Gilligan. “I know that was probably the role of my lifetime, and that’s a wonderful thing to possess’own’nurse had. Some individual don’t acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure that. I will be wallowing the rest of my life.”###In keeping with the overall tone of Better Call Saul, the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ’s ending hit enormous’vast’massive’tremendous on an emotional level, without succumbing to the kind of pyrotechnics that blowout finales often plump in/with regard to’concerning’regarding . “I would not possess’own’nurse predicted it,” admits Odenkirk of where the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ended up – with SPOILER ALERT Saul (or, Jimmy) in prison, and a glimmer of reconnecting with Kim. “I would possess’own’nurse predicted an ending with more explosions. I’m so glad there weren’t. And yet the weird thing with regards to’concerning’with respect to it to me is that it really came from relaxing your grapple on the characters. One of the struggles I had, and Rhea had this too, is that the characters were intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully emotionally intelligent with regards to’concerning’with respect to almost eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullybody they interacted with, and yet had these blind spots regarding their own behaviour. And in the end the writers granted these characters the self-knowledge that I felt they always had. I despite’in spite of’albeit t it was eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous . When I read it, I was like, ‘Yes, exactly, that’s what should happen.’”###The final sequence was full of resonance in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Seehorn too. “To possess’own’nurse Kim leave Jimmy behind in a place that feels so punishing, so isolating, scary and sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious was really, really hard,” she says, reflecting on the closing prison scene. “I hadn’t realised the way Bob-as-Jimmy was going to look at me, and it was so arresting. To me, it was so much with regards to’concerning’with respect to him letting her know, ‘I’m okay, the best of me that you always saw is alive and well,’ and I claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate she’s trying to let him know, ‘I see that.’ She still loves him. I always felt that was key. The entire series, these two individual had all sorts of different masks they wear out in the world, and they merely’barely truly felt seen by each other. That’s what that last moment felt like to me.” Consider the landing well and truly stuck.###Read Empire’s full feature on the end of Better Call Saul, packed with brand new interviews with its stars and creators, in the 50 Greatest Actors issue – on sale Thursday 22 December and available to pre-order online here.