Matt Jones and Charles Baker Reprise Series Roles for "Breaking Bad" Movie (Exclusive)
by Rick Porter
Sept. 17, 2019


Jesse Pinkman's buddies are alive and well — or at least alive — in the "Breaking Bad" sequel movie.

A teaser for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie features Skinny Pete (Charles Baker) refusing to tell police whether he knows Jesse's (Aaron Paul) whereabouts.

Matt Jones, who played Jesse's friend and drug-dealing and -using partner Badger in the series, will also appear in the film, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/breaking-bad-movie-matt-jones-reprises-series-role-1240115

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan: "I'm hoping when the movie comes out, people won't say, 'Oh, man, this guy should've left well enough alone'" (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/breaking-bad-movie-aaron-paul-series-creator-revisiting-amc-show-1240406)

"Why did George Foreman keep coming out of retirement, you know?" says Gilligan, speaking for the first time about El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Gilligan says he first considered doing a Jesse Pinkman-centric film before ending Breaking Bad. "I didn't really tell anybody about it, because I wasn't sure I would ever do anything with it," he says. "But I started thinking to myself, 'What happened to Jesse?' You see him driving away. And to my mind, he went off to a happy ending. But as the years progressed, I thought, 'What did that ending — let's just call it an ending, neither happy, nor sad — what did it look like?'" Gilligan first seriously considered revisiting Breaking Bad in 2018 amid the hoopla over the 10th anniversary, but his first thought was to do a short. "He just started letting his mind run over that," says his longtime producing partner Melissa Bernstein. "And he started to realize, 'I have a lot to say about this.'" ALSO: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie will play in select theaters for three days in October (https://mashable.com/article/el-camino-breaking-bad-theaters/).