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05-18-2022, 04:41 AM
https://variety.com/2022/tv/features/better-call-saul-giancarlo-esposito-director-1235268526
"When I was working on Breaking Bad, I had given Vince Gilligan my second film," Esposito, who didn't appear on Monday's episode, tells Variety. "Years later when we were getting ready to do 401 of Breaking Bad, that infamous episode 'Box Cutter,' I asked him if he’d looked at it and he said, 'No, I haven’t had the chance.' I said, 'Well you’ve been a busy bee.' I never asked again; that was close to 10 years ago, but I observed and kept watching what was going on. In the summer before we started shooting, I got a phone call from Vince and I thought something happened to one of the cast members, 'Oh, what happened, did Jonathan Banks keel over?' It was Vince, Melissa Bernstein and Peter Gould, 'We want to invite you to direct an episode in Season 6.' They didn’t know which one, and I just yelled. Good things come to those who wait. Through their conversations, they thought 606 would be the best that linked up with my personality."
"When I was working on Breaking Bad, I had given Vince Gilligan my second film," Esposito, who didn't appear on Monday's episode, tells Variety. "Years later when we were getting ready to do 401 of Breaking Bad, that infamous episode 'Box Cutter,' I asked him if he’d looked at it and he said, 'No, I haven’t had the chance.' I said, 'Well you’ve been a busy bee.' I never asked again; that was close to 10 years ago, but I observed and kept watching what was going on. In the summer before we started shooting, I got a phone call from Vince and I thought something happened to one of the cast members, 'Oh, what happened, did Jonathan Banks keel over?' It was Vince, Melissa Bernstein and Peter Gould, 'We want to invite you to direct an episode in Season 6.' They didn’t know which one, and I just yelled. Good things come to those who wait. Through their conversations, they thought 606 would be the best that linked up with my personality."