Bob Odenkirk Informed He’s Associated To King Charles On ‘Discovering Your Roots’ – Deadline

Bob Odenkirk was left wide-eyed and slack-jawed after the avowed anti-monarchist was informed he’s associated to King Charles III throughout an look on PBS‘s Discovering Your Roots.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed to Odenkirk that he’s the eleventh cousin of Britain’s head of state after the actor disavowed monarchies and their position in fashionable democracies.

Odenkirk is linked to the King via his fifth great-grandfather Friedrich Carl Steinholz, who was born out of wedlock to the Duke of Plön. Plön was associated to the royal households of Europe as a consequence of intermarriage, which means Odenkirk has regal blood.

Gates teased the reveal, initially telling the Higher Name Saul actor about Steinholz. “[It makes me feel] like part of historical past that I didn’t suppose I used to be any a part of,” Odenkirk responded. “I’m an American. I’m not a monarchist. I don’t imagine in that. You realize, I really feel prefer it’s a bit of twisted.”

He added: “I perceive why society constructed itself round monarchs and leaders, and so they handed them down via generations. I perceive that goes via each society, each civilization. However I feel that we’ve gotten to a greater place with democracy and we must always hold happening that street.”

Gates then revealed Odenkirk’s connection to King Charles. “Properly possibly I’ll change my thoughts,” he laughed. “Oh, that’s loopy. I by no means even thought of that! After all that’s true, proper?”

Odenkirk was born in Berwyn, Illinois, and raised in Chicago. His mother and father have been Walter Odenkirk and Barbara Mary, Catholics of German and Irish descent. The Emmy-nominated actor had a coronary heart assault in 2021 on the set of Season 6 of Higher Name Saul.

Odenkirk’s full Discovering Your Roots episode will air on January 30.