In a lengthy new interview with Film School Rejects, Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston confirms what his co-star already revealed about potential seasons 5 AND 6.
He also dives into where he expects Walt to end up when the story is said and done.
Early in the interview Cranston said, like co-star Aaron Paul, that he expects AMC to turn the remaining 16 episodes following season 4 into two seasons:
Each season Walter transforms more, for better and worse. Do you think he’s pretty close to fully becoming Heisenberg?
From the beginning, Vince [Gilligan] has always talked about making this transformation from Walter White to Heisenberg and making him go from good to bad. Once he does that, I think it’s over. As it turns out, we have 16 more episodes that likely will go over the course of, as far as airing, probably be an eight episode 5th season and an eight episode 6th season. And then that’s it; we’re done. And it’s good.
We then hear if he thinks his character has any sort of promising future:
Is there hope for Walter?
Article Continues BelowWhat do you mean by hope?
Do you feel like after all of what he’s done or is going to do that things could still end well for him?
[Laughs] Well, you know, there is that thing no bad deed will go unpunished. I just don’t see how someone can survive that long burning the candles at both ends on borrowed time. But mostly, it’s a theory that I have subscribed to, and that’s you need to be who you are in life. There are lifetime criminals who are destined for that. Perhaps they are incarcerated or perhaps they are killed, and that’s their destiny too. Perhaps while they are operating, that’s who they are and then they do it well, quite possibly.
The thing about Walter White is that he’s not who this person is. He’s living outside of himself. It’s a foreign territory. Whenever you do that, live outside of who you normally are, you don’t do things well and you will get caught doing them.
It’s like the person who doesn’t steal all of a sudden steals, and it shows up in their eyes, and they’re sweating it it’s like, “Oh, my God!” That’s when you can’t help but confess because you can’t take the pressure of what you did.
So that’s Walter White. I think his ego has grown to the point where he thinks he can handle this, he can manage this; he’s got a grip on it. But in truth, I don’t think he does. That’s the paper tiger.
Read much more from Cranston on Breaking Bad and his new film Drive at this link!
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