Did You Know …

• Two 1980’s Hollywood icons, John Cusack (The Sure Thing) and Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), were both considered for the role of Walter White?
• After binge watching Breaking Bad, Anthony Hopkins wrote Bryan Cranston a fan letter comparing the series to a “great Jacobean, Shakespearean or Greek tragedy”?
• Marius Stan, who portrayed Walt’s surly car wash boss, Bogdan, has a PhD in Chemistry and serves as Interim Director of the Systems Science Center in the Global Security Sciences division of Argonne National Laboratory?
• Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and Walter White Jr. (RJ Mitte) never shared a scene together during the entire series?
• Mark “Hector Salamanca” Margolis made his film debut (fully clothed!) as Unhappy Man in the XXX-rated classic The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976)?

The Shepherd Express Reviews Breaking Bad FAQ

“[Breaking Bad FAQ] summarizes the Russian novel-scaled plotline [of Breaking Bad] and serves up as much series-related minutia as author Rich Weidman could find … As Weidman explains about the appeal of anti-heroes, most of us ‘secretly romanticize the idea of ‘breaking bad’ now and then to declare our independence from the mind-numbing routine’ … FAQ includes pocket descriptions of many references in the plot including fulminating mercury and White’s alter ego namesake, Werner Heisenberg. More interesting than the trivia is Weidman’s analysis of “Breaking Bad” as a parable set against the bankruptcy of the American Dream.” – David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express [Read the Full Review]

Coming November 2018 …