In a
recent interview actor Dean Norris talked about the last episodes of the
popular series Breaking Bad, his death scene and why he choose Under the Dome
as his next project after Breaking Bad.
Regarding
him finding out about his death scene, Norris had this to say:
“Right.
And it’s interesting, a good year and a half ago, I was talking to Vince
[Gilligan] about this whole thing and he was telling me how it was going to end
in that fashion. Tom Schnauz, one of our great writers, said “We’re looking to
do it so Hank knows he’s going to die for the entire episode.” And I asked, “If
that’s the case, can we fit in a phone call to my wife [Betsy Brandt]? I can’t
let her know I’m going to die, but I get one final goodbye to her, then I don’t
cause her any more suffering and pain that I have to?” We were all really down
for that doing that, but it didn’t happen. Though I did get to say goodbye to
her in the previous episode.”
Norris
tried something else, something extra in his death scene:
“That
I was ending the show, that I was saying goodbye to Bryan. It all actually fed
back into the loop of the scene because Hank was also saying goodbye to Walt.
Also, I did the close-ups for that scene in one take, which is very unheard of.
Usually you’d do a couple more. But I talked to [director] Rian Johnson and I
said, “There’s one kind of face he will put up with Walt and another for bad
guys, but either way, he knows he’s going to die. So let’s have three cameras?”
We did some other takes for larger shots, but for close-ups we did it in one
take. Rian said, “Ok that’s the way you die on TV. Let’s move on!” I got done
in half a day.”
And
why Under the Dome?
“It
was very specific: it couldn’t be a cop (Laughs). I wanted it to be very
different in scope, maybe a comedy? And then Under the Dome ending up fitting
the bill—it was kind of sci-fi, large, intense…
And
it had Stephen King…
Yes,
and Steven Spielberg and CBS. I met with all the networks after New Year’s. I
met with Nina Tassler at CBS at 10 am and by 1 pm they’d offered me the role.
Read it and said, let’s go.”
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