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EW: Breaking Bad Reunion by Dan Snierson & Dan Winters  View all photos

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Entertainment Weekly: Breaking Bad Reunion

Bryan Cranston: “It was the best script I’d ever read, but nowhere in the pilot’s script does it say where that journey is going to go or how far it’s going to go,” says Cranston. “Is he just going to dabble in it for a little bit and then get out or what? And when [creator Vince Gilligan] told me he wanted to change this character from good to bad, completely, we realize that this has never happened before. So what Vince Gilligan did was change the construct of what was possible in series television. He changed it. It was all about stasis before. Whether you’re Thomas Magnum or Archie Bunker or Ross and Rachel, you are those people — or Tony Soprano — you are those people and you are reacting to different stimuli. But this is completely different. And he gave every one of us our own individuality.” – By Dan Snierson, Portrait by Dan Winters

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Entertainment Weekly: Breaking Bad Reunion

Jonathan Banks: “He’s a hardass whose real downfall is his softness,” says Banks. “There’s a side of him that’s good that eventually destroys him. Whether he acts on it or not, he has a sympathy for the underdog, for the vulnerable. Mike is the guy, even to his physical harm, that would step in and protect somebody being bullied.” – By Dan Snierson, Portrait by Dan Winters

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Entertainment Weekly: Breaking Bad Reunion

Vince Gilligan: “Being a student of television, I realized that in most television shows the characters maintained their characteristics throughout the life of the series. They didn’t really change,” says Gilligan. “I was very desirous of creating a show where the main character changed. I didn’t necessarily think of it in terms of being groundbreaking. I mainly worried that because it was a different take on the structure of a television show that that would be a ding against it and that it would make it harder to get made.” – By Dan Snierson, Portrait by Dan Winters

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Entertainment Weekly: Breaking Bad Reunion

Dean Norris: “One of the most interesting things for me was the fact that he went from a comic, kind of buffoonish character — which was really fun to play — to somewhere in the third season, becoming a much more tragic character,” says Norris. “It’s rare that you get to do that kind of an arc anywhere, to be honest with you. I think I might have asked Vince at some point, ‘Do I need to audition again for this?’ Because it’s a totally different kind of character.” – By Dan Snierson, Portrait by Dan Winters

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Entertainment Weekly: Breaking Bad Reunion

Betsy Brandt: “I had never played a character that long before, and that right in itself is a gift, as an actor to be able to take a journey like that,” says Brandt. “We read the pilot and I said to my husband, ‘This is the best pilot that I’ve ever read.’ I love Marie — to this day, I love her, and I’m so thankful for the wonderful things about her and I’m so thankful for all her faults too because it was just ridiculously fun to play…. Someone asked me, because it’s been 10 years since it premiered, what I miss most. And, hands down, it’s the people. To get to make this kind of show with this group of people — I mean, it just doesn’t get any better than that.” – By Dan Snierson, Portrait by Dan Winters

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EW: Breaking Bad Reunion by Dan Snierson, Photos by Dan Winters 

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Entertainment Weekly: Breaking Bad Reunion

RJ Mitte: “I felt I could really relate to Walt Jr. in many ways with the family situation and what was going on in my life,” he says. “It was really nice having a disabled character on television. Since Breaking Bad, I’ve been able to work with numerous charitable organizations and SAG-AFTRA’s Diversity Division. And it really helped open the door for a lot of people in the disability community with equal-opportunity employment, in how Walt Jr. was represented as a character, and not a disabled character. And it was one of those surreal experiences.” – By Dan Snierson, Portrait by Dan Winters