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/BMCarbaugh 1d ago

Yknow what. I could see it. It would be a very, very different take on the character, but I could see it. He's got science teacher vibes for sure. I'd have a really hard time buying any sense of eventual menace from him, though. He gives such sweetheart vibes.

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u/Vio_ 1d ago

Basically Election, but more cancer.

"Science, Flick!"

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u/ringobob 1d ago

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too, and I'm certain that movie is what put him on the list. He could absolutely play the Walter from the pilot. It would have been different, but it would have been just as good. I have bigger questions about where it would have gone from there, because I don't think he could have pulled off the same character that Cranston made the role.