Better Call Saul Was Right Not To De-Age Bryan Cranston & Aaron Paul
Better Call Saul finally brought back Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul for its final season and made the smart choice of not using de-aging technology to do it. After six years of waiting, Walt and Jesse returned to the screen in an episode appropriately titled «Breaking Bad.» Better Call Saul cleverly weaved Breaking Bad flashbacks from season 2, episode 8, «Better Call Saul» into one of the final episodes of the prequel series.
While Breaking Bad is the father series, Better Call Saul has done an excellent job at expanding theBreaking Bad universe. Since many of these characters met their demise in Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul provided the opportunity to further develop them despite their deaths. However, shooting scenes from the past can be tough when the actors are much older. While some shows have used de-aging technology successfully, many times de-aging technology has looked terrible and taken audiences out of the story. The creators of Better Call Saul have previously spoken about not de-aging characters due to budget. Jimmy McGill himself has leaped through time throughout the six seasons and Bob Odenkirk has managed to keep himself looking age-appropriate for every scene.
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The pressure to get Walt and Jesse's return right has been building since Better Call Saul season 1. Five seasons later, Better Call Saul presented the first Breaking Bad scenes with Walt and Jesse. Better Call Saul chose a great scene to reintroduce the characters through the eyes of Jimmy McGill. At that point in the Breaking Bad series, Jimmy wasn't familiar with the great Heisenberg, and his time in the R.V. turned the gears in his head until he decided to work for Walter
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