‘Breaking’ News: Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul to Reprise Their ‘Bad’ Characters on ‘Better Call Saul’ Final Season
It started as an offhand joke by Better Call Saul star Jonathan Banks, but it turns out to be true. Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul from the show’s Better Call Saul predecessor Breaking Bad will be making an appearance.
Co-creator Peter Gould unveiled the news at a Paleyfest event and the network behind both shows, AMC, onfirmed the news, noting “They’re coming back”.
“I don’t want to spoil things for the audience, but I will say the first question we had when we started the show was, ‘Are we gonna see Walt and Jesse on the show?’ Instead of evading, I’ll just say yeah,” Gould said on the panel. “How or the circumstances or anything, you’ll just have to discover that for yourself, but I have to say that’s one of many things that I think you’ll discover this season.”
“If you can believe it, there’s more,” Saul star Bob Odenkirk teased, but Gould cut him off before he gave anything else away.
Cranston and Pinkman played Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in five seasons of the drug dealing drama as well as Netflix feature film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which was released in 2019.
Banks was joking at the Deadline Contenders panel, taking a swipe at Cranston about him potentially reprising his role as Walter White.
Banks, who plays Mike Ehrmantraut, when asked whether Cranston would return, deadpanned to Deadline’s Pete Hammond, “Why would you want him to? I mean, talk about a really overrated actor.”
Odenkirk added, “Please make sure he knows John said that.”
The panel was about the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul, which will be broken into two parts. Part one kicks off on April 18th and runs until late May, and the second season will pick up again in early July.