After a long wait, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul finally appeared in Better Call Saul, a spin-off of Breaking Bad
After six seasons and much anticipation from fans of breaking bad, Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) finally made a cameo in the spin-off Better Call Saulstarring Bob Odenkirkinterpreter of Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman.
As the filming of the sixth season of Better Call Saul took place many years after the original filming of breaking badit was noticeable on the screen the aging of Aaron Paul, 42, who returned to the role of a 24-year-old. Currently, Hollywood is used to getting around this problem with rejuvenation through CGI, but the spin-off chose not to.
During an interview with Variety, Thomas Schnauzdirector and screenwriter of the episode “breaking bad” in Better Call Saulexplained the reason for the decision not to make the younger actors with CGI.
“There’s only so much you can do before it starts to look ridiculous. We don’t do a ton of rejuvenation on the show,” the filmmaker stated in the conversation. “There’s a little bit of stuff on guys’ faces to take a few lines here and there, but other than that, Aaron won’t look like an 18 year old boy or how old Jesse was during that period.”
“I fear people will cut this scene in the world of breaking bad and try to match their appearance then and now, but it’s not something you can worry too much about. It is what it is,” continued schnauz. “We’re telling a story and you can either stick with it or start choosing, ‘He looks a lot older than he did in the original scene.’
We decided to go for it, and I’m glad we did.
Better Call Saul: How did a heart attack help Bob Odenkirk improve on the show? actor responds
Exactly one year ago, Bob Odenkirk suffered a heart attack midway through filming the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul. Fortunately, the actor was rescued, spent some time in recovery and managed to return to the set to finish work on the production created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. Now, the star has commented on how this incident helped him improve his performance.
During an interview with NPR, odenkirk revealed how the terrifying – and near-deadly – heart attack changed his worldview and, as a result, helped him in the role of Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill in the spin-off of breaking bad.
How did a heart attack help Bob Odenkirk improve in Better Call Saul?
“It made it even easier, much easier to be in the moment… to look at the world almost as if you had just woken up and not remember a thing,” said the actor. “My wife dragged herself after a sleepless day, answering multiple phone calls and having a private jet that Sony was so good at sending to pick you up in New York. She walked into the hospital room, I showed up after surgery that morning and said, ‘Let’s get to work!'”
“And that energy was conveyed and made it easy to be in the moment. That’s your job as an actor. That’s the weird mind game that you play, it’s stepping into someone else’s moment in life, but really feeling on the verge of, ‘I I don’t know what happens from here,'” he continued. “For me, it was easier to do with that kind of weird, newfound point of view on the world.”
I really want to stay in touch with what happened there because it really was a great reconnection with being alive. And so I would love to reflect on that every day and try to reconnect.
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Source: Rollingstone
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