Saul Goodman of Breaking Bad was almost played by another best actor in Saul, and that would have changed the two shows

When Break the bad Throwned Saul Goodman, many actors were considered for the role – and one of them would continue to play in the spin -off of Saul, Better call Saul. The new book of Alan Sepinwall Saul Goodman c. Jimmy McGill: the full criticism to better call Saul is, for the most part, an episode guide by episode analyzing each episode of Break the bad Spin off. But it also contains some interviews with the distribution and the show team, full of juicy treats behind the scenes of the manufacture of the manufacture of Better call Saul.

The book reveals that Saul almost never existed. AMC wanted to cut the character of Saul from Break the badAnd the writers only gave Walt and Jesse a lawyer because the planning of conflicts with another actor forced them to rework their plans. There was even a thin chance that Saul was not played by Bob Odenkirk, the actor who became Thespian who made the character so loved that he won his own show, and the alternative cast would have changed everything.

Bob Odenkirk has always broken the first choice of Bad for Saul Goodman, but Michael McKean was also considered for the role

Jimmy could have been played by Chuck

In Saul Goodman c. Jimmy McGill,, Better call SaulThe co-creator and co-showrunner, Peter Gould, explains that When they played the role of Saul in Break the badOdenkirk was at the top of everyone’s list. But several other actors have been taken into account for the role. Gould does not remember most other candidates because he was a huge Mr. Show Fan and hoped that Odenkirk would be flowing. There is only another candidate he remembers: Michael McKean.

McKean was of course going to play Jimmy McGill’s brother in the spin-off. In many ways, Chuck is the exact opposite of Jimmy: He takes himself very seriously, he firmly does things through the book, and he thinks that the practices of his brother make fun of the law. McKean was so great for playing Jimmy’s deadly enemy that it is difficult to imagine as Jimmy himself. Saul would undoubtedly been a very different character if McKean had landed the room.

Saul would have been a very different character if McKean had played him

McKean would probably have played a much drier Saul

Like Odenkirk, McKean was a legendary comic artist before the Break the bad The franchise presented the world to its dramatic capacities. McKean played in the sitcom Laverne and Shirley And classical comedy It’s the Spinal Tapand he appeared as an actor on Saturday Night Live For a few seasons. But the representation of McKean of Saul would have been very different from that of Odenkirk. Odenkirk played Saul as Robert Evans-Esque Motormouth, while McKean would probably have played much drierwho would have changed Break the bad – and, by extension, Better call Saul.

Source: Saul Goodman c. Jimmy McGill: the full criticism to better call Saul by Alan Sepinwall

Break the bad

10/ 10

Release date

2008-2013-00-00

Showrunner

Vince Gilligan

Directors

Vince Gilligan, Michelle Maclaren

Writers

Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, Vince Gilligan, George Mastras, Moira Walley-Canadkett, Sam Catlin, Thomas Schnauz