During today’s Deadline Contenders panel, Better Call Saul star Jonathan Banks jokingly threw a dig at Bryan Cranston for potentially reprising his role as Walter White.
It’s official now: Cranston and Aaron Paul, who played Jesse Pinkman in the Better Call Saul prequel, Breaking Bad, will be back.
Co-creator Peter Gould revealed the news at a Paleyfest event, and AMC confirmed the news with the comment, “They’re coming back.”
Cranston and Pinkman played White and Pinkman in five seasons of the drug dealer drama, as well as in the Netflix feature film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which was released in 2019.
Earlier in the day, when asked if Cranston would return, Jonathan Banks, who plays Mike Ehrmantruat, replied dead to Deadline’s Pete Hammond: “Why would you want him to do that? I mean, are you talking about a really overrated actor.”
Odenkirk added, “Please make sure he knows that John said that.”
The sixth and final season of Better Call Saul is divided into two parts. It begins April 18 and runs through the end of May before resuming in early July.
“Although I know what’s going on [in the end]”I don’t think it hit me,” Odenkirk said of his role as raunchy attorney Saul Goodman, “I think I’ll have to watch it with everyone else and then it’ll hit me.”
“It’s Rubik’s Cube from Hell,” Gould added to set the drama series’ final season right for fans. “It’s incredibly challenging and intimidating, but starting the show was the same.”
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