Why Better Call Saul Didn't Digitally De-Age Bryan Cranston & Aaron Paul
Better Call Saul writer-director explains why the show elected not to digitally de-age Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. All suspense about Walter White and Jesse Pinkman appearing in the final season of AMC’s Breaking Bad spinoff was shut down back in April when it was confirmed that the pair would indeed drop in at some point. Fans then just had to wait for the two principal Breaking Bad characters to finally make their anticipated appearance.
Better Call Saul as it turned out would make fans wait quite awhile to finally see Pinkman and White again. But the moment at last arrived in last night’s episode “Breaking Bad,” which revisited Walt and Jesse’s first meeting with Saul Goodman, shifting the perspective to see things from Saul’s side. Interestingly enough, actors Cranston and Paul did not appear to be significantly de-aged for their scenes, despite the actors now being 14 years removed from the ages they were when they first played their characters on Breaking Bad.
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The decision to not de-age Cranston and Paul may indeed have made it difficult for some fans to suspend disbelief and think they were seeing White and Pinkman as they were over a decade ago whenBreaking Bad originally aired. Speaking to Variety, Better Call Saul “Breaking Bad” episode writer-director Thomas Schnauz addressed this issue and explained why the decision was made not to go overboard with de-aging effects. He said:
There’s only so much you can do before it starts looking ridiculous. We don’t do a ton of de-aging on the show. There’s a little bit of stuff on the guys’ faces to take a few lines out here and there, but other than that, Aaron is not going to look like an
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