Fox to work with after doing Breaking Bad. Fox Show and I could not have chosen anyone better than Michael J. I wanted to do a comedy after that and that’s what I did. I mean, if you're lucky enough to have an experience like that as an actor, to have a job that you love that much, I felt like. Was that by design after playing one character for so long?Īfter Breaking Bad, it definitely was a conscious choice. You've kind of done everything since Breaking Bad, every sort of genre of television, especially. We shot in New Mexico, because of the tax incentives, but it ended up being just such a great gift. Breaking Bad was originally set in California. There are some things that would be completely different if it was somewhere else. The show is delightfully specific because it's in Albuquerque. Albuquerque is another character in the franchise.
Between both the shows, we've been there for so long, but there's still new places we shot. So it can be a hub for production and it's a great place to do a show. There's a lot of fantastic crew that are based out of Albuquerque now, which is amazing. I mean, I'm such a fan of Rhea, I was like, “I know we didn't have any lines with one another but…” And I know Bob, and I love Bob and his wife. I kept saying, “It was so weird to have you in my TV house.” Because we were on completely different shows. I'll never forget when we had that scene together.
I had one scene with Aaron and that felt. I feel like we saw some of that at the end of Breaking Bad, and I love it when a character surprises you and the writers gave me that.Ĭorrect me if I'm wrong here, but you had not had any scenes with Bob Odenkirk before, right? In this moment, she used that determination for good and not bad.
She's so determined in good and bad ways. And I think wanting justice for Hank, her compass points north on that. It didn't surprise me because I think Hank and Marie have one of the best love stories you've seen on TV. Well, I wasn't sure what to expect of any of the characters we hadn't seen for a while. Did that surprise you when you got the script? She plays such an important role as this unforgiving voice of justice. I think once she lost Hank I think she just had to grow up and put things in perspective. And I know in black-and-white, but she's not wearing purple in the finale of Better Call Saul either. I feel like we saw a hint of this at the end of Breaking Bad when the last time we see her, she's wearing no purple. I mean, I said to Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, “You guys could not have done any better by me or my character." To give her that dignity that she found at the end of this… To play that, it was just such a gift to an actor and to me as a person, because to get to work with all my friends again was incredibly wonderful. Would I want a vacation with Marie? Probably not. Were you at all reluctant to revisit Marie? I knew pretty early on that they wanted me to come back, but I didn't know what that meant until we got closer and we all wanted to figure it out. Because of COVID, the schedule kept changing. Not because it's a secret, because I honestly don't remember. Oh my God, I knew you were going to ask me that and I'm so sorry. When did the show approach you about returning? But, speaking by phone, she still sounds thrilled to have had the chance to return to a crucial role in the world that she’d lived in for five seasons. She’s been all over the place, making memorable appearances in films like Magic Mike, guesting on such series as Private Practice, Parenthood, Love, Victor, and Masters of Sex, and serving as a series regular on The Michael J. She served as an unforgiving reminder of the loss and waste Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) had facilitated, if not directly caused, as the attorney and fixer for the man who got her husband killed.īrandt, of course, has done anything but disappear in the years after Breaking Bad. After five seasons of unpredictable and kleptomaniacal behavior, Marie returned to mournfully and morally ground Better Call Saul’s final episode. That absence ended with “Saul Gone,” the series finale, which featured Brandt’s unannounced return. ( Spoilers for the Better Call Saul finale follow.) But one major character remained unaccounted for: Hank’s widow, Marie Schrader, played by Betsy Brandt. Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) and Stephen Gomez (Michael Quezada) showed up for a pair of episodes in season five, and the sixth season’s home stretch featured appearances from none other than Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), along with references to the fate of Walt’s exonerated wife, Skyler. Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) joined the series as a main cast member in the third season. The longer Better Call Saul went on, the more it welcomed in the world of Breaking Bad.
0 kommentar(er)
