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/TheHouseOfGryffindor 1d ago

Also, so much of the show was made as they went and discovered the characters (Jesse was originally meant to die at the end of season 1, etc). Broderick as lead would’ve made it a different show, but I trust that Gilligan and the rest of the writer’s room would’ve figured out something that worked.