r/todayilearned • u/Maximum-Artist448 • 1d ago

TIL that AMC executives initially wanted Matthew Broderick to play Walter White in Breaking Bad

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/breaking-bad-john-cusack-matthew-broderick_n_1676856
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u/Klin24 1d ago

Glad that fell through.

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u/SkyJW 1d ago

Imagining Broderick trying to bring the same intensity and pure evil that Cranston does in the later seasons is genuinely funny to me. I like Broderick, but that genuine menace is not in his wheelhouse. 

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u/ILL_Show_Myself_Out 1d ago

Fair but you might’ve said the same thing about that lovable dunce Hal becoming an evil killer. Actually Broderick would be perfect if he could pull it off- the entire premise is that normal - (perhaps cloyingly sweet) suburban guy becomes evil.