25 interesting and unexpected facts about the series “Breaking Bad” (26 photos)

Serial snobs very rarely agree. But perhaps everyone agrees on one thing: the TV series “Breaking Bad” is a true masterpiece. If you're an avid TV series fan, you've probably already watched it once or twice and think you know everything about it. But this collection of facts from Reddit users proves that he can still surprise!





1. Zafiro Añejo tequila in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul was invented by the writers because they couldn't find a real brand for product placement due to a scene in which several people die after drinking it.



2. The character of Mike Ehrmantraut was created because Bob Odenkirk (Saul Goodman) was unavailable for an episode of Breaking Bad because he had to film How I Met Your Mother.





3. The Breaking Bad team was offered $75 million to produce three additional episodes after the final season. This amount was reported to be more than all the profits they had made in five years. The team refused, saying that the latest episodes did not need to be completed.



4. Jonathan Banks, Breaking Bad's Mike Ehrmantraut, starred in a 70s PSA called "Linda's Period Movie."



5. The owners of the house where Breaking Bad was filmed had to build a six-foot wrought iron fence to keep people from throwing pizza on the roof of their garage.



6. Vince Gilligan greatly regretted adding a machine gun to the final season of Breaking Bad. Writing a convincing explanation for its use proved so difficult that he almost abandoned the plot twist.



7. For the episode "Ozymandias", the show's producers received special permission from the Hollywood guilds to delay the credits (which usually appear after the introduction) until 19 minutes into the episode to preserve the effect of the opening scene.



8. Four months after Florida resident Ryan Lee Carroll won a competition to meet the cast of Breaking Bad, he was found in possession of $1 million worth of synthetic marijuana and charged with drug distribution. A souvenir protective suit signed by the actors of the series was also confiscated from the man.



9. After Breaking Bad showed blue meth, real drug dealers started making it blue, too, imitating the show.



10. In the episode "Ozymandias" there is a scene in a gas station bathroom in which little Holly, kidnapped by Walt, cries and calls for her mother. This was not in the script, but Bryan Cranston played along with the girl. At that point, Walt should have just looked at Holly and realized on his own that he had to give her back to Skyler.



11. The pizza that Walt throws on the roof of his house in anger was real, and Bryan Cranston nailed it in the first take.



12. Two dedicated fans of the series created a film, simply titled Breaking Bad: The Movie, which condensed the entire series into a two-hour feature film.



13. Breaking Bad has a stop-motion Spanish remake called Metastasis. It follows Walter Blanco, a high school chemistry teacher in Bogota, Colombia, who teams up with his former student Jose to start cooking methamphetamine.



14. The Schraderbrau beer that Hank Schrader brewed in the series actually exists. Actor Dean Norris helped launch it in 2019.



15. The city of Albuquerque held a funeral for Walter White to celebrate the finale of Breaking Bad.



16. After binge-watching Breaking Bad, Anthony Hopkins wrote a letter to Bryan Cranston in which, among other things, he said, “Your performance as Walter White was the best I have ever seen in my life.”



17. Rian Johnson directed both the critically panned The Last Jedi and the Breaking Bad episode "Ozymandias," which is considered one of the best episodes in television history.



18. George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire and screenwriter of Game of Thrones, called Breaking Bad a “terrific” series and noted that “Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros.” " and then said that this inspired him to create a character for future books to "fix that."



19. AMC only allowed the Breaking Bad writers to use the word "f*ck" once per season, leading to lengthy discussions about exactly when to use the word "f*ck." Since the pilot episode was independent, the word was used a bunch of times.



20. HBO, Showtime and FX have dropped Breaking Bad.



21. Walt Jr. never crossed paths with Jesse in all 62 episodes of Breaking Bad.



22. Giancarlo Esposito, who played villain Gustavo Fring, had a Spanish accent so bad that some native speakers described it as “the sound of fingernails scratching a blackboard.”



23. The final season DVD has an alternate ending to the series. In it, Bryan Cranston as Hal, his character from Malcolm in the Middle, awakens from the nightmare that was the events of Breaking Bad.



24. The DEA taught Bryan Cranston how to make meth for Breaking Bad.



25. The creators of Breaking Bad were initially wary of casting Bryan Cranston as Walter White and therefore offered the role to John Cusack and Matthew Broderick, but both turned them down.