United Kingdom, May 17 -- Bob Odenkirk has recalled how he "turned grey" moments after he suffered a near-fatal heart attack on the set of Better Call Saul.

Revealing how crew members initially mistook the emergency for a joke as the 63-year-old actor's co-stars Rhea Seehorn and Patrick Fabian, rushed to help him, Bob - best known for playing morally slippery lawyer Saul Goodman in Better Call Saul and its predecessor Breaking Bad - said screaming also erupted on set during his health horror.

Speaking about the incident to The Times, Bob said: "I went down and Rhea and Patrick grabbed me and they were screaming, but (the crew members who noticed) thought they were laughing.

"So there were delays in reacting because we were all so far a...