In this age when consumers watch TV and movies and so identify with characters on the screen that they lose sight that they’re watching actors, it’s easy to forget that there is the moment when an actor discovers the fate of his character. And the actor reacts. We now have a quintessential example of that on video: the moment when two stars of the award-winning AMC series “Breaking Bad” read the script for the highly-praised series finale. Just watch Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul go through the script in amazement in this video:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.