Better Call Saul and Friday Night Lights actor reveals new non-Hollywood job: ‘It sucks’

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John Christian Love appears in a 'Better Call Saul' scene with Bob Odenkirk. Credit:

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While fans of *Better Call Saul* might have seen John Christian Love on their TV screens playing Ernesto, next time might be when he delivers a package.

The actor recently revealed on a Reddit thread for Amazon drivers that he's one of their colleagues.

"Just want yall to know that as the actor who brought you the character 'Ernesto/Ernie' in *Better Call Saul*, that I too am out here delivering with you!" he wrote. "It sucks, but 1 delivery at a time. Be blessed out there!"

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There were some questions. Love is familiar to audiences, after having acted in TV and movie projects since at least 2010. He's worked as a football player on the TV series *Friday Night Lights*, as well as in the 2016 Tina Fey movie *Whiskey Tango Foxtrot*.

When someone asked about whether he'd wanted to leave the entertainment industry, Love answered that he hadn't actually stopped acting.

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"I haven't given up on it, just really slow right now," Love answered. "And *BCS* wasn't the breakout I was hoping. Did a significant film working opposite Lily Gladstone / Bryan Cranston but film ran out of money and I was never paid."

Cranston addressed troubles on the film *Lone Wolf* with Gladstone in a statement to *Deadline* in July 2025. In it, he vowed not to finish the film until financing issues were sorted and cast and crew were paid.

"I’m distressed that this has caused so much grief and distrust, and so sorry that this crew (which was fantastic) were not treated with the respect they deserved," Cranston wrote.

John Christian Love appears in the 2021 short film 'Away'.

When one Reddit poster gave Love a shout-out, noting that it's "nice to know someone famous is doing something regular," the actor replied that he'd "never stopped doing regular, contrary to popular belief."

On *Better Call Saul*, the actor's character is a friend of Bob Odenkirk's main character, Jimmy McGill, who uses the professional name of Saul Goodman at his law practice. Love appeared as Jimmy's loyal friend in 11 episodes of the Emmy-nominated crime drama that aired for six seasons between 2015 and 2022.

After someone commented that they'd also been out of work in the entertainment industry, Love commiserated; in fact, many posts in the thread were about the industry's slowdown in Los Angeles.

"Sorry for you too man! It sucks! I'm tired of waiting for permission, so going to start doing my own projects, but got to do something other than this because it really is killing me," Love wrote. "I was a mail carrier, FedEx driver, UPS seasonal driver, and all of them were better — all of them sucked, don't get me wrong, but were better than Amazon — route changes everyday, vans are crap, no culture, no real benefits, high turnover, etc."

Still, he kept things positive: "But my hope is that everyone will do what they love doing," and not be reduced "to a 9-5 slave."

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