Better Call Saul Season 6 Hired A Dance Troupe For Opening Scene

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Spoilers ahead for Better Call Saul season 6

Better Call Saul hired a real dance troupe for season 6's opening flashforward scene. After a long hiatus due to the pandemic and star Bob Odenkirk's on-set heart attack, the Breaking Bad prequel series finally returned to AMC earlier this week for its sixth and final season with a two-episode premiere. Picking up immediately where season 5's finale left off, Nacho flees the scene where the failed assassination attempt against Lalo occurred, as the menacing Cartel member begins to plot his revenge against Gus Fring.

Outside the Cartel storylines, Jimmy and Kim move forward with their plan to sabotage Howard Hamlin. Before the season premiere gets into all these storylines, it begins with a flashforward scene, which is business as usual for Better Call Saul. Instead of opening with a black-and-white sequence set in the future Gene Takavic timeline as each past season has, the season 6 premiere breaks this tradition and takes viewers on a Saul Goodman house tour set shortly after he disappears to Omaha in Breaking Bad. The scene sees movers seize Saul's property and haul it out to dumpsters and moving trucks.

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In an interview with IndieWire, episode 1's cinematographer, Marshall Adams, shared some details about how the opening scene was created. One of the most notable takeaways from the conversation was that the episode's director Michael Morris and assistant director Rich Sickler had the idea to hire a real dance troupe to play the movers for the scene, which they rehearsed for an entire day before shooting. Read what Adams shared below:

[Director] Michael [Morris] and our first AD Rich Sickler had this idea