He’s an immensely physical actor, almost a clown: sometimes a funny clown; other times a very scary clown indeed. The most memorable Walter White moments could almost take place in a silent film: Walt sitting by his stagnant pool, flicking lit matches onto its surface; Walt watching as Gus Fring slits a henchman’s throat with a box cutter; Walt fixing himself lunch. The man makes a sandwich like Chaplin roller-skated.
“He’s telepathic,” Gilligan says. “I can’t tell you how much dialogue we’ve cut out of this show over the years in the editing room, stuff that we wrote and really liked, that when we got to the editing room and we said to ourselves, ‘you know, we don’t need this line. It’s not necessary, because I see exactly what he’s thinking.’” (x)
