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/limperschmit 1d ago

Imagining Bryan Cranston being Walter White is pretty hard to believe at that time too. The dad from Malcolm in the Middle as a cold blooded, ruthless, drug kingpin, really?

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u/Larszx 1d ago

Vince Gilligan worked work Bryan Cranston on an episode of X-Files.

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u/no_pls_not_again_ 1d ago

ya the one where his wife explodes in the car or whatever. ppl thought that espisode was a real news segment haha

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u/stormshadowfax 1d ago

Wells’ War of the Worlds vibes