Rolling!
And action!
This is very much a
It feels a bit like Old Home Week, it feels a bit like
Vince runs such an incredible ship.
It feels good to be back in his camp.
We've come back together
around five years after wrapping the last season of
It was one of the great conclusions ever to a TV series.
And to continue the story was amazing.
Only you can decide what's best for you, Jesse.
Not sure I should stick around town.
That's a start.
I knew that this story started with where we left off
but I had no idea where it was heading.
We were very protective of the script.
The actors had to come to us and read the one copy we kept under lock and key.
After reading the script,
I get a deeper look at what truly was going on
within that concrete hole that the Nazis held Jesse in.
You're given little titbits that you never knew you missed
that sort of alter the end of the show in some way.
Good behavior, right?
I think the story of this film is really about the struggle to survive.
It follows a man on the run
who will truly stop at nothing to finally become free.
-You're apexing too early! -I'm apexing at the apex!
Bitch, don't be telling me how to drive and shit.
You couldn't drive a two-button elevator!
You couldn't drive Miss Daisy!
Whatever that means.
The first day on set was with Skinny Pete and Badger.
It was nice to have that trio back together.
Feel like a new man?
Yeah. Thanks.
We did our first scene with Aaron and it was like, "Oh yeah. This."
It wasn't weird.
It was just like, immediately you're like, "Ah, I missed this."
-Now you take my car. -I don't even like your car.
Drives like a dick.
We're the paragons of innocence.
We're not bad guys, we're just Jesse's friends.
It just might keep you from getting spotted.
Yo, Skinny!
Why are you doing all this?
Dude! You are my hero and shit.
Look at that slow, like, push in.
You could feel it.
It's so good, like how close he is.
Obviously we thought that thing was done
but it still very much lives and breathes in all of us.
It was worth the 21 takes, tell you that.
So much time had passed but we're all still so close,
and so it was just like old friends coming together.
I'm kind of indentured to Vince Gilligan.
I get a note that says, "You be there" and here I am.
They call you up and they say,
"Vince Gilligan wants to have you in another project,"
and everybody says, "Excellent".
I said, "Cool".
They said, "But you can't tell anybody about this."
People started asking me, "Hey, what are you doing?".
"I can't tell ya."
And that's cool.
This is some top secret shit.
I got the script and I was so thrilled to be able to see the next chapter,
and what he goes through and how Jane is a part of that for him.
I was sitting next to my wife
who said, "Hon, you're not gonna believe this. Mr. Pinkman lives."
It was totally thrilling.
It was really good.
It's like coming home.
It was like going back to your high school reunion if your high school sold meth.
Yeah.
OK, picture's up. Here we go.
The core crew of
is also the core crew of this movie.
I have a great team.
I mean everybody here. This is the greatest crew ever.
People like to say all the time that they have wonderful crews.
This crew really is extraordinary and it is a family of sorts.
Everybody here is so devoted.
They're here because they couldn't not be a part of telling this story.
And to see the script come to life in a film like a real Western
was really spectacular.
We get to showcase landscapes, like here in the Painted Desert.
It's beautiful.
The cinematography has been incredible.
There were some moments out in the Painted Desert
that just felt... classic.
Marshall Adams, our amazing DP is also a drone pilot
and he got some shots from a couple of hundred feet up.
In the old days we would have sent a crew over there to hike up the mountain.
To have the opportunity to come in and have a 46-days schedule
allows Vince to put something on the screen
that's gonna be more epic than the TV series ever was.
My favorite thing to do in make up is character work,
and that's why I love this movie
because there're so many transitions that Jesse Pinkman goes through.
We definitely needed to reference the show for all these flashbacks.
So we literally would be at home on a big screen
with a camera phone
and going back through the episodes,
and going, "Stop, stop" and taking screenshots.
We tried to remain true and authentic
to what the
And those clothes don't exist anymore so we got to rebuild them.
This shirt here is a shirt that Jesse wears in the actual series
but no longer exists in stores.
So it consists of three different shirts that we pieced together,
one sleeve, one shirt, one collar.
It's kind of nice to actually have a sense of the characters
as opposed to most films where you come in blind.
My stuff's gonna fit you like a tee, yo!
It's not like you have to borrow from Sasquatch over here.
Can't help it that I'm sized for love.
When Jesse comes out of captivity, he goes by Skinny Pete's house.
Skinny Pete sets him up with clothes.
They have to change him so he can be incognito
so we don't really get a sense of his own look for most of the film.
Maybe don't, like, shave, and like, you know...
be less recognizable?
For this particular film, we are jumping all over the place
and therefore we have a bunch of wigs in all different lengths.
You know, it takes a village.
We have him everywhere. We have him hit with a fire hose,
we have him in a shower.
He actually took his hands and went...
Like he's washing his hair, like...
It withstood it but you're like this...
What are you better at? Going forwards or backwards?
OK, let's both go sideways for a while.
I haven't played a Jesse and Todd scene in years.
We definitely get a deeper look inside of Todd's mind.
First and foremost I was very happy to finally know what music Todd listens to.
He just likes Seventies' yacht rock.
I was worried beforehand as whether or not he was still in there, or I could remember
what I did six years ago.
Seeing the shape Jesse is in definitely jogged my memory.
The way he plays Todd is not menacing.
You know, when he does certain looks,
it sends chills down my spine
but he's smiling at me.
I think Jesse is part his pet,
and he thinks that what he's doing
is best for him even if Jesse doesn't realize it.
He's just missing certain common human emotions.
How you like my place?
Yeah, it's nice.
Kinda...
...pastel.
We're on the set of Todd Alquist's apartment,
and I love this, this tickles me.
It's a third floor apartment in real life,
and so they built the whole set on this riser
that takes it four feet off the ground.
Todd's a really interesting character.
Outwardly he's very polite, he's considerate
and he genuinely feels bad when he kills or hurts someone or something.
Where are we gonna... take her?
Someplace pretty.
She deserves that.
When you first walk into his home,
it's very sunny, it's very Easter egg palette.
But then he has his whole other dark side that can flip very quickly.
That's where we end up in his bedroom.
You come across the darker side of him.
The Scorpion chair was something that Vince had brought to the table.
And the snow globes were really about his personality.
I mean it's hard to pick a favorite, you know?
-So the baby's eating a snake? -Yeah. Oh yeah.
As you can see he's got some interesting taste.
They are kind of cheerful
and they're the sort of happy souvenir that you give as gifts.
But upon closer inspection you see that they're slightly off, slightly twisted.
I mean, I love this. There's something...
So it's not just cute, it's, there's something offputting.
Vince's note was to add something even weirder to it,
like some random little fishbowl.
It's not at all what I envsioned but...
Todd with money, that's what you get.
Yeah, no crazy in this house.
Perfectly normal.
Hey Jesse, Aaron rather, keep doing what you're doing.
Keep doing that, tap your hand on that wall.
And shine your light.
We're finishing up this big search.
As Jesse has spent 16-18 hours straight tearing this place apart
looking for the money.
We're in between takes on this crazy shot.
Looking straight down from the rafters you can see
the camera way up there, 40-45 feet up.
It was Judy's idea to build Todd's apartment
the exact same size as the frame of the camera.
Just watching Jesse desperately searching for this money, it's beautiful.
You can see from here already how we're gonna shoot the stage.
And if we go all the way up, we'll be able to see it completely.
When I first read the script,
I saw his character searching throughout the apartment
as a mouse within a maze,
and I thought how cool it would be then to pull up to see the maze,
to really show that he had searched everywhere.
We have 90 minutes of takes
and the whole thing will get boiled down into you searching for maybe
fifteen, twenty seconds of screen time.
The greatest 15 to 20 seconds of screen time ever.
Yeah!
A compound lab, that we had to recreate.
We couldn't go back to the original place cause it was completely leveled.
So we had to basically use the drawings, screengrabs,
whatever we could cobble together to recreate it.
That's a lot of the original equipment from
As a matter of fact, Walter White's bloody handprint
is still on one of the cooking vessels.
Technically it's not supposed to be there
because this is before all those events happened
but I didn't have the heart to clean it off.
That's a little Easter Egg, if you can spot it in the finished footage.
Part of it felt like you never left.
This set is exactly what it was when we were here six years ago.
Kenny, if he breaks his leg he's not gonna be able to cook.
Are you fucking HR department? Jesus, Todd, relax.
Tell you what, everybody freeze and let's have focus on Scott.
I was a
so much so that the first three days of my honeymoon with my wife
we actually stayed in the hotel room watching Season 3.
Being a fan of the show leading up to this production,
you realize these characters are operating from moment to moment
to fulfil their needs.
And whether they're betraying a value or not
isn't necessarily the compass they're using.
And Vince's ability to just continually escalate the world,
it gives you so much that you just hope to keep the ball in the air for him.
You ready?
Yeah.
I love Krysten Ritter so much.
You know, I haven't played a Jesse and Jane scene in ten years
because Jane met her demise in Season 2.
I love the relationship between Jane and Jesse
and I love that we get to see a scene that we didn't see in the series.
It's not every day that a show that is that huge and successful
gets to come back and take a little victory lap.
This is definitely a film for the fans.
And for everybody.
-Except kids. -Yeah, don't bring the kids.
It's been surreal and a lot of fun to go back in time like this.
I think all of our fans will just be so thrilled to see this next chapter.
I think it really gives some closure for this character.