Better Call Saul: Actor comments on character’s death in season 6

[Atenção: o texto contém spoilers da 6ª temporada de Better Call Saul]

After almost two months of hiatus, the sixth season of Better Call Saul returned with the shocking “point and shoot,” eighth episode of the last phase of the spin-off of breaking bad. In the chapter, the public witnessed the death of Lalo Salamancaplayed by Tony Daltonby the hands of Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito).

During an interview with Variety, Dalton revealed about the moment he discovered the death of Lalo in a previous conversation with Peter Gould and Vince Gilligancreators of Better Call Saul. The star was very happy with his work and the opportunity to work on a series like this.

“It was a while ago, but I got a call before we started filming during the pandemic,” he recalled. Dalton. “I got a call from zoom in vince and Peter. It was more about how excited they were about what happens than it was about my character dying.”

“Like, ‘Oh my God, this is going to be crazy what’s going to happen.’ They talked about the death of Howard [interpretado por Patrick Fabian] is that Lalo kill him, and then they said, ‘And then you die.’ I was grateful that I got the part and worked with these guys,” he continued.

[Lalo] became so essential to the story of the series. You don’t get sets like that very often.

Better Call Saul: Why did Lalo have to die on the return of season 6?

Finally, the sixth season of Better Call Saul returned after a nearly two-month hiatus with the episode “point and shoot,” eighth of the last phase of the spin-off of breaking bad. In the chapter, the audience witnesses the death of the main villain of the season: Lalo Salamancaplayed by Tony Dalton.

While Better Call Saul continues to follow Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) and the characters he encounters in the criminal underworld of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and connections to breaking bad. The previous episode, “Plan and Execution,” showed Lalo at Jimmy’s apartment for help killing Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito).

However, in “point and shoot,” Lalo is murdered by Gus after trying to break into the underground laundry room, where the character of Giancarlo Esposito was building a meth superlab hidden from the cartel run by Don Eladio (Steven Bauer).

Why did Lalo die in ‘Point and Shoot’?

During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Peter Gouldproducer and one of the creators of Better Call Saultalked about why Lalo die when he died in the production of AMC. “It would be a totally reasonable choice to save these very dramatic deaths for the last two episodes, but we have other situations to show,” she said.

“It’s not something that we necessarily draw on a board and say, ‘This is the episode to do this’ and ‘this is the episode to do that,’ but our main focus is really on character development and psychology, so it kind of organically fell here which is where these things would happen,” continued Gould. “But there’s still a lot more drama to come.”

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