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Bryan Cranston nimmt seinen Breaking Bad-Charakter Walter White auseinander

Gibt auch einen ersten Teil und es auch als Podcast.

“And basically the story of Walter White in Breaking Bad is that he had a skill set that allowed him to do one thing really, really well. But that was it. If he was a mathematician, let’s say, in order to provide money for his family for after he died, he probably would have tried to figure out how to count cards at a casino or something dealing with math.

Just so happens it was chemistry. So the story of Breaking Bad really is about decision making. And that’s where character, a person’s character is always determined when decisions are made under pressure.

If I found a wallet with $200 in it, it’s nothing to me. And I don’t mean, it sounds terrible, but I don’t need it. And so I would go, oh, geez, this belongs to Rainn Wilson.

I’ll just take the $200 out and say I just found his wallet, no problem. No, I would return it.

But if I just had an eviction notice put on my door and I found the wallet with $200, that creates a whole new situation. And it’s the latter scenario that creates more dramatic appeal because it’s challenging, morally challenging. And that’s what Breaking Bad and any good drama narrative is about.”

Von Jannis Schakarian

Geboren als Jannis Kucharz studierte Jannis Schakarian, Publizisitk und Filmwissenschaft. Hat funk mit aufgebaut, Kolmnen bei der Allgemeinen Zeitung geschrieben und arbeitete als Formatentwickler, Leiter des Social Media Teams und der Distributionseinheit beim ZDF, dann bei SPIEGEL als CvD Audio.

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