Better Call Saul's Giancarlo Esposito, Michael Mando and Patrick Fabian on creeping toward Breaking Bad
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Fans of Better Call Saul know that, while the show stands on its own quite handily, you’re always still kind of waiting for when Saul will collide with Breaking Bad. That’s finally starting to happen with the new season, premiering February 23. Jimmy McGill is now publicly known as Saul Goodman, and Gus Fring is really growing into the meth impresario that fans of both projects know him to be. The A.V. Club talked to three of Saul’s supporting players—Giancarlo Esposito, Michael Mando, and Patrick Fabian—about where this season will take the Albuquerque gang, and why this season might be Saul’s best yet.
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That backdrop looks like it was stolen from the photo booth of a junior prom.Can’t wait for this. Gus vs. Lalo is gonna be a brawl.
I can’t wait to see what Nacho does to Lalo and how Jimmy gets involved.
Hell yeah! They gotta pay off that line from BB.
What was the line again?
It’s from Saul, and it’s from the episode of BB where Walt and Jesse kidnap him and take him out to the desert. I believe it’s something like ‘Is that you, Lalo?’From the Breaking Bad wiki. Keep in mind that ‘Ignacio’ is Nacho.“When Saul Goodman is kidnapped by Walter White and Jesse Pinkman and taken to the desert, Saul assumes that it is Lalo who has abducted him and starts begging for his life, blaming Ignacio for what happened, swearing he’s always been friends with the cartel. After realizing Walter and Jesse’s confusion, he understands he had mistaken them for Lalo and sighs in relief. (“Better Call Saul”)“
https://breakingbad.fandom.com/wiki/Lalo_Salamanca
Thanks for clarifying. I haven’t watched Breaking Bad in a long time so many of the callback references in BCS go over my head.
The line is something along “it wasn’t me. It was Ignatio. He’s the one. I’ve always been a friend to the cartel.”
How is Patrick Fabian not a bigger star? He’s like a Rutger Hauer who can act.
BOO! Rutger Hauer absolutely (when given good material) had acting chops.
I just watched Blade Runner again last weekend and Batty’s final monologue made me cry all over again. He ad-libbed that line so hard that it has its own Wikipedia page now.
oh yeah … Fabian really stretches. Like that one episode where he was a uptight dick, or that other one where he was an exasperated uptight dick, or then there was that one where he was a verbally abusive uptight dick. His delivery is the same, his movements, his range, just pretty much everything is the same. Now the director wants a consistent performance from their co-stars and Fabian delivers but not seeing ‘star’ quality with the dude. He’s a movie-of-the-week kinda actor … would never carry a show himself.
And you better hush yer mouth and beg dead Rutger’s ghost for forgiveness. That dude had almost 200 credits, he was multilingual, and he was a damn handsome & talented Nederlander that delivered the shit in The Hitcher, Bladerunner, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nighthawks, and plenty others.
Sorry Mrs. Hauer, really touched a nerve there!
that’s Mrs. Hobo’s wife with a shotgun …
Yeah I gotta agree. I just watched a Season 1-3 re-cap video on Vanity Fair or GQ or something and Fabian was pretty much Howard Hamlin only he smiled sincerely more.
When they’re not talking in the clip, Patrick Fabian’s expression is that he’ll sit there and look beautiful, then looks a little defeated when the questions weren’t about him; Michael Mando is earnestly hoping he’s made and is making enough of an impression to keep getting great gigs and Giancarlo is sitting there looking like “I’m Giancarlo Esposito. This was on my schedule for today.”
I was hoping AV Club would do a review of the first four episodes of the season but I guess not.