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The concept ofBreaking Badwas born out of an impending mid-life crisis and bad decisions committed under its overarching shadow. Although Vince Gilligan would always say that his situation was notthatdire, the creator revealed how a fellow writer friend bemoaned their then-unemployed status by daydreaming about renting an RV and running a meth lab out of it.
Despite the circumstances of the show’s conception, fans have now put Gilligan under the most critical supervision for his brilliant creation ideas. Meanwhile, superfans and viewers of the show keep on multiplying asBreaking Badnever stops its wide-reaching net of influence and fanfare.
The Enduring Legacy ofBreaking Bad
Breaking Bad, created byVince Gilligan, is a story layered by narratives of its morally grey heroes, villains, and their individual tragi-comic lives. The series, through its stellar writing and irreplaceable performance of the actors, has gained a cult-like following, and with good reason, too.
The show itself has supplied the fans with years’ worth of quotable dialogue and memorable scenes worth reenacting and remembering time and again.Breaking Badmakes itself approachable to fans across every demography, especially as the comically exaggerated circumstances of the show take a high-school teacher facing a mid-life crisis to the extremities of human behavior.
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In the years since the end of the saga that began withBryan CranstonandAaron Paul, American television has remained quiet. The era of explosive shows and cult-classic hits has come and gone as the medium of film and entertainment desperately strives for another creation befitting the legacy ofBreaking Bad.
The Accidental Birth of aBreaking BadVillain
AlthoughBreaking Badremains an eternal classic as a television show, there is truly no replicating the show and its creator when it comes to conceiving villains. Of all the epic television characters that have existed to date, theBreaking Badvillain Gus Fring portrayed by the evergreen actorGiancarlo Espositoremains an all-time favorite for fans.
While speaking of the conception of Gus Fring as a villainous presence in the show, Vince Gilligan revealed how he and the writers’ room came upon the idea after Raymond Cruz’s character Tuco from Season 2 became unavailable.
Unfortunately, [Raymond Cruz] had prior commitments … it was a real bummer for us… But, as an actor, he had to honour those contractual commitments.
In aninterview withDigital Spy, Gillian admitted how the original blueprints of the show had Tuco set to become the original bad guy of the show. But his contractual obligations towards another show forced the writers to think outside the box while coming up with a worthy replacement:
So he became unavailable to us and we thought, ‘Man, we’re never gonna have a character as good and interesting as he was’, but we then thought to ourselves, ‘Why don’t we go in the complete opposite direction?’ – why don’t we have a bad guy who doesn’t snort meth off the end of a bully knife? Who isn’t a screaming lunatic?
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Giancarlo Esposito’s Gus Fring was the exact opposite of a raving bully or a screaming lunatic. Rather it was his eerily quiet and calculating disposition that made the villain one of the all-time greatest creations on television. Through his arc onBreaking Bad, not only did fans find a character etched in the echelons of morally grey characters but Esposito found a renaissance as an actor as the series revived his Hollywood career and took him to new heights.
Breaking Badis streaming on AMC+.
Diya Majumdar
Senior Writer
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Diya Majumdar is a Senior Content Writer at FandomWire with over 2000 published articles on the website. Since 2022, she has been working as an entertainment journalist with a special focus on films and pop culture.Among the countless genres and themes of Hollywood, the ones that particularly favor Diya’s tastes include Game of Thrones, DC, and well-aged thrillers and classics.
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