The eleventh episode of the final season of the series “Better Call Saul” brought back to the front of the stage two emblematic characters of “Breaking Bad”. Warning, SPOILERS.
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This is not strictly speaking a surprise, since it had already been confirmed by the production: Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, respectively played by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, appeared in the eleventh episode of the final season of Better Call Saul, subtly titled “Breaking Bad”. Before them, other emblematic characters from the cult program appeared in this prequel series, such as Gus Fring, Mike Ehrmantraut or even Hank Shrader to name a few.
If this episode confirmed to us that Jesse did indeed escape the police (as it had already been shown to us in the film El Camino) following Walter’s sacrifice, the two characters also appeared in the flesh over time. from a flashback scene following the kidnapping of crooked lawyer Saul Goodman (real name Jimmy McGill) by the two associates in the second season of Breaking Bad.
On this occasion, many easter eggs were included in the sequence aimed at the most hardcore Breaking Bad fans, such as the crystal blue meth laboratory, the hoods worn by Jesse and Walter to hide (in vain) their identities to Saul, or one of Jesse’s favorite insults: “Dick” (“Conn**d” in French).
CMA Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) in the second season of Breaking Bad
In an interview with our colleagues from varietythe director of the episode Thomas Schnauz revealed that he almost included Jesse’s famous “Bitch”, a detail that was ultimately not retained in the final version of the script, because judged “too forced”. The latter also explained why it was decided not to rejuvenate the two actors, necessarily older than when filming the series Breaking Bad (broadcast between 2008 and 2013):
We’re not doing a lot of rejuvenation in the series. We put some makeup on their faces, but there was no way Aaron could look like an 18-year-old kid, Jesse’s age at the time. (…) When you watch Better Call Saul, you forget what the characters looked like, but when you edit the scenes one after the other, you realize, for example, how much Jonathan (Banks, who plays Mike editor’s note), who I imagined to have the same face as in Breaking Bad, has changed in appearance.
Due to the overloaded schedules of the two actors, the writing and filming of this scene took place prior to the production of episode 11, while the second episode of season 6 was being filmed. universe of the series, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul did not, according to director Thomas Schnauz, need any indication of the game to immerse themselves in the emotional state of their characters (the flashback sequence of Better Call Saul takes place during season 2 of Breaking Bad, at a very specific moment in the series).
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The sixth and final season of Better Call Saul premieres every Tuesday exclusively on Netflix. Remember that this final season totals thirteen episodes (including eleven already broadcast).