“Better Call Saul”: This was the moment most awaited by “Breaking Bad” fans.

Attention, SPOILER

This article contains spoilers for “Better Call Saul” Season 6 Episode 11, which in Spain premieres Movistar Plus + on Tuesday 2 August at 10:30 pm on the Serie 2 channel.

It’s not really a surprise why we announced it here last April, but now we know when and how “Better Call Saul” fulfilled the desire of “Breaking Bad” fans by bringing back Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, the characters of Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. It was the eleventh episode of the sixth season, originally airing on the night of August 1, which was revealingly titled “Breaking Bad”. The chapter contains flashbacks of episode 8 of the second season of the original series, just where Bob Odenkirk’s character was first presented.

Although the scenes in which Walter and Jesse appear come from storylines we already know, the sequences are unpublished and were recorded for the occasion (they also didn’t bother to rejuvenate the actors). At the beginning of the chapter we see Saul kidnapped by his teacher and his pupil, just before the opening credits. We later see the three of them conversing about the details of their affair and then Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) tells him everything he managed to find out about Heisenberg and his assistant: that I’m a high school teacher with cancer and one of his friends, former students. At the end of the episode, Saul enters Walter’s high school, but the encounter between the two was already present in the episode of the main series, so it doesn’t repeat itself. There are still two chapters left for the final conclusion of “Better Call Saul” and since the next one is written and directed by Vince Gilligan, we shouldn’t rule out that Walt and Jesse will be out again.

how it was done

As revealed to Variety Thomas Schnauz, director and screenwriter of the episode, Cranston and Paul’s return was more luck than planning, Well, the stars lined up so that both actors had a clear agenda at the same time during the production of the sixth season: “They were only available at a certain time. We had a very small window, so even though it was episode 11, I had to write it much earlier and we shot it while Vince [Gilligan] I was shooting episode 2. […] We didn’t know for sure if we would bring Walt and Jesse back. Part of the way to console ourselves if we didn’t was to say to ourselves, “Walt is back in ‘El Camino’ with Jesse. It exists, so if we don’t get there in “Better Call Saul”, that’s fine. ” but I think we all desperately wanted them to come back at some point for some reason. We didn’t know how or why, but in the end, when we started talking about these episodes in the past, we thought we’d do it. “.

In the interview Schnauz granted to the media, the director explains that when they arrived at the shoot, Bryan and Aaron only asked to remember what vital and emotional moment their characters were in and immediately returned to them and needed. a little. direction, even though it’s been 13 years since the end of ‘Breaking Bad’. Indeed, this time lapse is noticeable in Aaron, who is now 42, and Jesse, his character, just over 18 at the time of the action, but since the production they have decided to take risks and trust the audience first. to try to rejuvenate. They: “In a way, I’m afraid people will confuse this scene with the world of ‘Breaking Bad’ and try to compare how they looked then and now, but it’s not something you can worry too much about. It is what it is. We are telling a story and you can follow or start criticizing: “She looks a lot older than she was in the original scene.” We decided to give it a try and I’m glad we did. ” The first five seasons of “Better Call Saul” are available on Netflix and the sixth is broadcast weekly on Movistar Plus +.