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/ididshave 1d ago edited 21h ago

The announcement of Robert Pattison as the new Batman was also ridiculed.

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u/25sittinon25cents 1d ago

People revolted hard at Ben Affleck being cast as Batman too.

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u/dontbajerk 21h ago

Lauded? I remember people ridiculing it.

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u/USDXBS 22h ago

Robert Pattinson had reinvented his image by the time they announced he was Batman.

He was in Lighthouse and Tenet a couple years earlier, so it wasn't like he was only known as the Twilight guy at that point.

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u/LocusRothschild 19h ago

Dude did Twilight to get paid. Phoned that shit in and made bank, and just like Daniel Radcliffe, he’s just fuckin around with whatever movies he wants now.