There will come a time — late summer 2013, actually — when Breaking Bad will be no more, and all our questions will be answered. Is the show a prequel to Malcolm in the Middle? (No.) Did the baby do it? (Maybe.) Is meth good for you? (Yes.) The show’s actors and actresses have already started looking for their next gigs, assuming there is a next after Walter White bombs the world in the finale, and not just the BB world, but the REAL world.
Aaron Paul wants to be attached to The Dark Tower; Anna Gunn has been tapped as the lead in a Bravo show, Rita, about a private school teacher; Skinny Pete’s got a nice stack of heroin with his name on it waiting for him back home; RJ Mitte, future Denny’s spokesperson, obviously; and Dean Norris, well, Dean Norris had a comedy pilot, until Vince Gilligan, or Spanish for “asshole,” cruelly didn’t kill him off Breaking Bad.
According to actor Dean Norris, who plays Hank Schrader on the AMC series, when the writers set off to write Breaking Bad’s final season, he specifically requested his character be killed off in the first half.
“I called [creator] Vince [Gilligan] and I said, ‘Hey man, maybe Hank should die in the first eight. Wouldn’t that be a great ending?’” Norris recalled during an interview at Breaking Bad’s Albuquerque set this week.
As Norris explained, when AMC announced they were going to renew Breaking Bad for fifth and final season, the forward-thinking actor landed a leading role in a comedy pilot, but was forced to pull out when Season 5’s 16 episode order was split into a pair of eight-episode runs to air over two years.
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Asked if, in retrospect, Norris regrets his request, especially considering the series’ upcoming final episodes will be, in his words, the most “Hank-centric“ yet, the 51-year-old Harvard grad explained that he was only being rational.
“It was either do eight episodes or do 24 and I’ve got five kids, man.” (Via)
If this is the face of a slightly unhappy Hank…
…I’d hate to see what a mad Hank looks like.
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I wish the twins would have finished Hank. But now he’ll probably go out versus Walt, which should make for a pretty good demise to our favorite DEA agent.
I always figured it would come down to Walt vs. Hank, with the two of them getting into a fist fight and Walt smashing Hanks head in with one of his own rocks…I mean minerals.
Death by minerals would be pretty cool. And sounds like an Antipop Consortium song.
Bummer he had to turn down another show…a comedy? (Grumpy cat “NO”)
i thought Aaron Paul was out of that HBO drama.
You’re right. Slipped my mind. Thanks.
gotta free up his time for that lucrative Need For Speed film franchise
Dean was banking on his pilot getting picked up and lasting a full season. Unless it was some God awful Chuck Lorre show, his chances of that happening might be slim. I’d rather see him in a buddy cop show with Jonathan Banks. You would need to throw a hot chick in there so people will watch. It would be like a cross between My Two Dads and Veronica Mars. Now that’s a show I’d watch!
I just thought of a title for the show: My Two Breaking Bads. Someone send me a check and I’ll get started writing the pilot.
Hanky-Banky.
That “I Wish I Could Read” gif slays me every time.
I have always thought of the show as a sequel to Malcolm in the Middle not a prequel.
Agreed. Sequel.
I would also accept alternate universe Friday Night Lights.
Yeah, Hank in a comedy would be AWESOME.
Maybe they can bring back Daddio.
was he quoting benny in the original total recall?
Why yes, I believe he was!
That’s a bummer that he didn’t get to do a comedy. That’d be great. He’ll probably get another shot before too long. Also, I didn’t know he was a Harvard grad; impressive!
Whenever i see Hank, i immediately think back to his small role in Starship Troopers. More specifically when he says to Rico, “…. Live….. Fire….. Exercise!”
Five kids? It’s called a condom, man, Jesus.