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Jennifer Wood and Mental_Floss<\/a> present 25 Fascinating Facts About Breaking Bad<\/a>. Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 2. THE NETWORK REALLY WANTED MATTHEW BRODERICK TO STAR.<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s impossible to imagine Breaking Bad with anyone other than Bryan Cranston in the lead role, but he wasn\u2019t as well known when the series kicked off, and AMC wanted a star. They were particularly interested in casting either Matthew Broderick or John Cusack in the lead.<\/p>\n “We all still had the image of Bryan shaving his body in Malcolm in the Middle,\u201d a former AMC executive told The Hollywood Reporter about their initial reluctance to cast Cranston. \u201cWe were like, ‘Really? Isn’t there anybody else?\u2019\u201d But Gilligan had worked with Cranston before, on an episode of The X-Files, and knew he had the chops to navigate the quirks of the part. The network brass watched the episode, and agreed.<\/p>\n “We needed somebody who could be dramatic and scary yet have an underlying humanity so when he dies, you felt sorry for him,\u201d Gilligan said. \u201cBryan nailed it.”<\/p>\n 10. GILLIGAN GOT SOME HELP FROM THE WALKING DEAD CREW FOR FRING\u2019S FINAL EPISODE.<\/strong><\/p>\n Fring\u2019s final sendoff is one of the most memorable visual images from the entire series\u2014and they were able to enlist the help of some true gore experts. \u201cIndeed we did have great help from the prosthetic effects folks at The Walking Dead,\u201d Gilligan told The New York Times. \u201cAnd I want to give a shout-out to Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger, and KNB EFX, those two gentlemen and their company, because their shop did that effect. And then that was augmented by the visual effects work of a guy named Bill Powloski and his crew, who digitally married a three-dimensional sculpture that KNB EFX created with the reality of the film scene. So you can actually see into and through Gus\u2019s head in that final reveal. It\u2019s a combination of great makeup and great visual effects. And it took months to do.”<\/p>\n 15. HEISENBERG\u2019S SIGNATURE HAT WAS A MATTER A PRACTICALITY. Jennifer Wood and Mental_Floss present 25 Fascinating Facts About Breaking Bad. Here are three of my favorites… 2. THE NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17262,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261\/revisions\/17262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nHeisenberg\u2019s porkpie hat came to identify Walter White\u2019s dark side, but it originated from a very practical place. \u201cBryan kept asking me, after he shaved his head, \u2018Can I have a hat?\u2019 because his head was cold,\u201d Kathleen Detoro, the show\u2019s costume designer, explained. \u201cSo I would ask Vince and he kept saying no; Jesse wore the hats. Finally, Vince said, \u2018I think there\u2019s a place \u2026\u2019 It was Bryan asking for a hat, me asking Vince, and then Vince figuring out where in the story it makes sense: It\u2019s when he really becomes Heisenberg.\u201d (If you want to buy your own Heisenberg hat, it was made by Goorin.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"