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Spoilers below forEl Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.
How Jesse and Walt’s diner scene fits into the Breaking Bad timeline.
and pathos, as Gilligan skillfully reminds us who Walter White was before he got into the empire business.
I just wanted people to see Walt again because there is noBreaking Badwithout Walter White, Gilligan said.
I thought that I could show them in some moment from the past that was very dramatic and exciting.
But then I thought,Hell, thats what the whole rest of this movie was about!
The diner where Jesse and Walt have breakfast was populated with crew and family or friends of the crew.
In the booth behind him are two of our producers and one of our producers daughters, Paul said.
It was so beautiful to see friends and family coming together to be part of a pretty iconic reunion.
But keeping Paul and Bryan Cranston from being discovered together was another matter.
I also thought it drew a lot more attention to us, but obviously it worked.
It was so much fun.
It was a dream.
The moment, notes Paul, is heartbreaking and very telling of who Walt is.
Walt has such grandiose ideas about himself as a human being, Gilligan adds.
But at the end of the day, hes such a pathetic character.
In a way, that makes me sad for him too.
This guy is so brilliant.
He came close to winning a Nobel Prize.
And its good to be the best in the world at something.Anything.
But after Gilligan yelled, Cut!
Paul got an idea he pulled out of hisBreaking Badprankster playbook.
And Bryan, of course, said, Lets do it!
They would say we need to move on and I would say, Lets do one more.
But then it was just taking way too long and we were not able to get it on film.
But in trueBreaking Badfashion, we gotta do it.
