John Cusack has finally addressed the longstanding rumors that he was one of the original choices to play Walter White in the hit AMC series Breaking Bad.
And I ran into the creator of Breaking Bad [Vince Gilligan], and I said, ‘Am I crazy or did you offer me Walter White? He’s like, ‘No.'”
It has been claimed that the part of Walter White was first turned down by John Cusack and Matthew Broderick before the network ultimately acquiesced.
Breaking Bad also famously starred Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, a former student of Mr. White. Six years after the conclusion of Breaking Bad, Paul reprised the role to give Jesse’s story a proper conclusion, starring in the Netflix film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.