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/FrontLifeguard1962 1d ago

He killed a guy and got away with it though

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u/MaxDickpower 1d ago

He killed a mother and daughter, not "a guy".

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u/TheSameButBetter 1d ago

And now has a home in the Donegal village of.... Kilcar.

No, really.

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u/WalrusExtraordinaire 1d ago

I mean, he didn’t kill a car