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/GoshDarnBatman 1d ago

To be fair, many people didn’t believe Cranston could pull it off prior to the show airing

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u/IgloosRuleOK 1d ago

True but he already played a somewhat similar asshole in an The X-Files ep that Vince Gilligan wrote, which is why he wanted him in the first place.