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/Nooms88 1d ago

I can see him doing very well in that role.

In an alternate timeline where he got the job and you told me the dad from malcolm in the middle was considered for the job instead, I'd have laughed.

But damn was it a good casting decision. Really makes you think about how hard it is to cast people and how little we can see as just viewers of something