Breaking Bad is one of the most popular TV shows of all time and has won countless awards including a Golden Globe in 2014 for Best TV series. But we don’t need to tell you how awesome the show is because if you’ve seen it, you probably already know. Here are 10 awesome facts about the show you probably didn’t.
- Aaron Paul has never had an acting lesson.
2. Tuco was meant to stick around for all of Season 2 but Reymond Cruz was unavailable after landing a big role in The Closer. This is why the team came up with a new villain – Gus Fring.
3. Bryan Cranston has a Breaking Bad tattoo on his finger. He got it on the last day of filming for Season 5.
4. George R.R. Martin called Walter White a bigger monster than anyone in Game of Thrones and vowed that in his next book, he would “do something about that.”
5. In 2011, William Duncan, a chemistry teacher from Texas, was arrested for selling home-cooked meth. Sounds familiar…
6. Lots of networks turned the series down before it was finally accepted by AMC.
7. Jesse Pinkman was not meant to be a long-term character. The writers planned to kill him off in season 1 and we are so glad that they didn’t.
8. Somewhat ironically, the DEA actually helped teach Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul how to make meth so it would look more realistic on screen.
9. The blue meth onset is actually rock candy. In the real world, many meth dealers have actually started adding blue dye to their meth to make it look like the rock candy meth on the show.
10. 270 characters were killed on the show overall. That’s a lot more than we would have guesstimated.
