On the day that the first promo for the last ever episodes of Breaking Bad dropped, a new video of Samuel L Jackson reading a Walter White monologue has surfaced online.
Jackson filmed himself reading the "I am the danger" speech that Walter gives Skyler during Season 4's Cornered, and the video was posted online by Prizeo TV. They're offering people the opportunity to win a lunch date with the Avengers star and raise money for the Alzheimer's Association in the process.
We cried with laughter at the rather deadly reading (who knew Nick Fury could be so badass in more than one fandom?), but did you know that Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan was in bits while writing the series finale? As per The Hollywood Reporter, the creator was overcome with emotion when he reached the final hurdle. "I actually cried writing the end - 'The end' on the last episode," Gilligan said.
And if you think that was tough, consider how he felt when he actually had no idea where to go with the story. "We sat around in the writer's room for thousands of man hours playing a game of chess, saying, 'If we move the character from here to here to here, what happens? What's the counter-move?'" Gilligan explained. "Essentially we said, 'What are all the possible endings we can come up with?' And then, 'What is the ending that satisfies us the most?'"
Well, if Bryan Cranston's past statements are anything to go by, we're guessing they went with the ending that was the nastiest. "There's nothing good, there's not going to be redemption," Cranston said "It's going downhill - it's ugly."
Sounds deadly.