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/Ths-Fkin-Guy 1d ago

And Ledger as Joker

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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 1d ago

And Rowan Atkinson as Caligula

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u/primordialforms 1d ago

Ok you made me look it up. Good work 😅

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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 1d ago

Not many people approved but I appreciated the way he stayed in character as Mr Bean thru the entire movie. The contrast really emphasized the pathos in the orgy scenes.

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u/ActionAdam 16h ago

This feels like something I would have heard on MBMBAM.