Breaking Bad Trivia - Breaking Bad Information and Facts
Initially, Walter was supposed to increase Jane's heroin dosage to fatal levels and cause her overdose, but Bryan Cranston thought that this would be too dark a turn too early for Walt, so it was then changed to Walt rolling Jane onto her back so that she'd choke, but this was nixed due to the same reasons as before, so Walt simply watches Jane die.
As the show progressed, Vince Gilligan noticed he had to stop criticizing Walt about how evil he was becoming in front of Bryan Cranston, because he was hurting the actor's feelings.
Bryan Cranston started playing Walter White at age 52, the same age that Walter dies at the end of the series.
In the last 3 episodes, Todd Alquist had more screen time than Jesse Pinkman did.
When one of Tuco's two cousins was cast, he was asked if he knew of anyone who looked similar, with a strong physique and the same intensity. He recommended his brother, who got the role immediately.
Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul are the only two cast members to actually appear in all 62 episodes of the series, despite others having a credit on all episodes.
Before the series premiere, AMC was flooded with letters by concerned viewers who were afraid the show would glamorize the world of meth. When the show began to air, those letters ceased.
There is an alternate ending of the series finale on the last season DVD. It involves Bryan Cranston playing the role of his Malcolm in the Middle (2000) character Hal waking up from a nightmare which happens to be the events of Breaking Bad. Jane Kaczmarek also makes a cameo appearance as Lois. This was an homage to the finale of Newhart (1982).
Steven Bauer (Don Eladio) and Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring) who play enemies in the show, previously starred together in the show South Beach (2006), the movie Doing Hard Time (2004) and in a production of the play "Balm in Gilead" which also starred Breaking Bad actor Mark Margolis (Hector Salamanca). Bauer and Margolis also acted alongside one another in another drug-related project Scarface (1983).
As the series progresses, Walter White starts wearing more and more black or dark-colored clothing. In several season 5 episodes, he wears mostly black or dark grey.
Costars Bryan Cranston, Matt Jones, and Bob Odenkirk have all appeared in How I Met Your Mother (2005).
Walter White's alias, Heisenberg, is a tribute to Werner Heisenberg, who formulated the uncertainty principle, which states that it is impossible to determine simultaneously both the position and velocity of an electron or any other particle with any great degree of accuracy or certainty.
Kris Kristofferson was considered to play Skyler and Marie's father in one scene. It was discarded because the writers felt it strayed too far from the main story.
Jesse Pinkman was originally intended to be killed off shortly after the series started. Ironically, Jesse ended up being the only survivor of the series' final confrontation.
Season 4 spans the shortest amount of time; season 5 spans the longest.
