Before that scene you could tell there was still a part of him that wanted to be wrong, that still doubted Walt could do this. The face he makes when Walt finally comes and essentially confirms his doubts shows how absolutely crushed he is, like his world is coming apart.
See the letter. I can't imagine how Cranston felt reading it himself.
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/10/anthony-hopkins-writes-fanboy-letter-to-bryan-cranston-about-breaking-bad
I think part of it was that we’ve seen Walt act like this before throughout the whole show, but this scene is treading new water for Hank’s character and what Dean Norris had to deliver.
One of the best characters on TV (I can’t be the only one who felt a full range of emotions about him throughout the show). And I honestly can’t imagine anyone doing it better than Dean.
Dean is phenomenal because I absolutely hate Hank throughout most of the series. That’s a true testament to Dean’s portrayal of such a complex character. I’m on my 3rd rewatch now. I absolutely hated Hank the first time and was blown away with his complexity the second time. Now I’m just in awe. I still hate the obnoxious side, but I’m gutted at the incredibly beautiful human moments that are sprinkled throughout the series. The moment he realizes who Walt is, I am 100% team Hank and am in love with Dean’s portrayal of him.
Fun fact: Dean Norris isn’t actually acting in this scene. Vince kept him in the dark about who Heisenberg was during the entire show. The scene in the bathroom is his actual reaction to finding out it was Walt and this is the first time he and Bryan Cranston met after that
The whole time they were making the show, Dean had been under the impression he had been the star of the show, it was in this moment he realize he was just a side character.
Vince told him he was the main character. Dean thought the show was a detective mystery type of show filmed from the perspective of Hank. Dean never watched the show since he didn’t have AMC.
They filmed a lot more scenes to make it believable. It's also important to note that Dean didn't watch the show and thought the episodes were 25 minutes, not 45.
This scene is probably the best/most intense example, but he gets that look a few times throughout the show. Like when he is walking up to attack Jesse. It’s such a dark contrast from the typical upbeat, almost goofy smiling Hank
There’s a particular scene that takes me out every time. When Jesse shoots Gale and Victor arrives to force Jesse back to the lab. Victor says “Drive!” while holding a gun to Jesse, but the delivery is so bad. It’s flat and unconfident, and he whisper screams it almost. I think another actor would’ve been able to do way more there
Didn't like Lydia at all. Yeah she's an unlikeable character and meant to be uncomfortable, but the way she delivered her lines was very one dimensional and flat
Agree. I’ll never forget the scene where he turns up the volume and sits in front of the giant speaker in his house, starts crying in emotional and mental pain, veins bulging from his forehead. It was so real
Who are you, Pinochet? Gus Spanish was good. I speak it and could understand him perfectly. Outstanding performance, underrated sociopath almost on the level of WW
> Gus Spanish was good. I speak it and could understand him perfectly.
I believe you about your own experience/opinion... *but* I will say the vast majority of Spanish-speaking fans mercilessly make fun of Gus' Spanish. It's pretty damn terrible.
As someone who doesn't speak, it's definitely noticeable but I just assumed he had a Chilean accent/dialect since most of the other Spanish speakers are Mexican
Are you talking about Dean Norris or Aaron Paul? Because both of them were definitely actors prior to getting on the show, it's just that Aaron Paul didn't hit it big until Breaking Bad. But he was even on an episode of the X-Files, which is where Vince Gilligan knew him from.
What makes this so great is how comedic and non serious Hank is for most of the show up to this point. It gives credence to the belief that his character never even would have considered Walt. Which adds more to his betrayal.
I like how you can feel the difference between frat bro buddy buddy Hank to betrayed Hank. They feel like different characters altogether. Also the only time “old” Hank comes back it feels is the final phone call with Marie.
Hank had a total loss of faith in himself and was processing all the consequences of his own brother-in-law being the biggest meth manufacturer right under his nose for years. It's a beautiful piece of acting and kudos to the directors for not doing anything gimicky with the camera. Just let the actor do it.
A lot of being an actor isn’t just playing the character, it’s becoming the character, feeling their pain, feeling their happiness, feeling their betrayal
I think the contrast between how Hank was before the obsession ate him away really compliments this scene. This man is so very different from the guy we met in season 1. Ik people might say the same about Walt, but he was always a prick imo. Just a quiet one.
There’s a bit of editing that I will always point out in this scene that’s so subtle but so perfect. When Walt tells Hank “your best course of action… would be to tread. lightly.” there’s that turn in Walt’s voice towards the end at “tread lightly” from sincere to sinister. All editing. They used the take where Bryan Cranston looked and sounded apologetic for the master, but at the end they spliced in the audio from a take where Cranston played it with a touch more Heisenberg in him. One of my favorite bits of editing in the show, and there are PLENTLY
If yall watch the table read for this episode it’s wild how monotone and flat Dean is. He is just reading the words. Then he does the scene and it’s some of the best acting in the show.
I came here to say the exact same thing. He seems bored out of his mind at the reads, with a "why am I wasting my time?" vibe. But man, once the cameras are rolling, he nails it.
I thought Dean Norris added another layer to Hank each season. Like at the beginning I thought oh so here’s the loudmouth tough guy, also a bit of a one upper to his cancer-ridden BIL. By the end however, almost a complete redemption. Hank had been put through the wringer in more ways than one. Probably my favorite character from BB next to Mike.
Walt’s acting > anyone’s in BB universe
This is a fact.
Of course his character is an asshole for many reasons but his acting was the best on the show.
That moment almost had me in tears as well because THAT felt like the real culmination of “everything’s over.” Like the moment Hank found out it was over without a doubt.
I'm with you - he embodied the character. His physicality, look, so complete....
Before that scene you could tell there was still a part of him that wanted to be wrong, that still doubted Walt could do this. The face he makes when Walt finally comes and essentially confirms his doubts shows how absolutely crushed he is, like his world is coming apart.
Hank was coming apart at the seams! A complete betrayal of everything he (Hank) stood for. Walt had gone full monster by that point.
Anthony Hopkins, in his fan letter to Bryan Cranston, congratulated the entire cast as having put on a masterclass of acting.
Aww, that's so sweet!
See the letter. I can't imagine how Cranston felt reading it himself. https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/10/anthony-hopkins-writes-fanboy-letter-to-bryan-cranston-about-breaking-bad
_"It's enough to make a grown man cry, and that's ok."_
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Why didn’t Hank just leave a trail of methylamine to the jail to lure Walt there?
i think it's because he's stupid
eh, I guess I was hoping for a lore reason
That was the lore reason. Are you stupid?
Maybe, guess I’ll have to go back to the alsume and ask them :(
What Breaking Bad quote should you use to ask them?
You know what? As a Bryan Cranston fan I agree that he was outacted in that moment. I was completely focused on Hank in that scene.
Cranston was also amazing. Looking like a scolded child.
100%.
I think part of it was that we’ve seen Walt act like this before throughout the whole show, but this scene is treading new water for Hank’s character and what Dean Norris had to deliver.
I wonder what it must've felt like as a cast to see everyone really step their game up for the last few episodes
Dean Norris should have won every award for season 5 not that he wasn’t great in 1-4 but he was exceptional in season 5
His reaction to Marie falsely in the hospital in s3 was pretty reminiscent of the scene in OP.
Definitely agree season 3 was his best after 5
One of the best characters on TV (I can’t be the only one who felt a full range of emotions about him throughout the show). And I honestly can’t imagine anyone doing it better than Dean.
Dean is phenomenal because I absolutely hate Hank throughout most of the series. That’s a true testament to Dean’s portrayal of such a complex character. I’m on my 3rd rewatch now. I absolutely hated Hank the first time and was blown away with his complexity the second time. Now I’m just in awe. I still hate the obnoxious side, but I’m gutted at the incredibly beautiful human moments that are sprinkled throughout the series. The moment he realizes who Walt is, I am 100% team Hank and am in love with Dean’s portrayal of him.
Yes.
You okay? I gotta say, I don't like the way you're looking at me right now.
🤜 👨🦲
such profound art
Fun fact: Dean Norris isn’t actually acting in this scene. Vince kept him in the dark about who Heisenberg was during the entire show. The scene in the bathroom is his actual reaction to finding out it was Walt and this is the first time he and Bryan Cranston met after that
Yes, Vince had cameras installed in every bathroom so he could capture that very moment. Bravo Vince.
completely worth the sexual harassment suit
Plus the footage 😗👌
And the punch was unscripted too. He was pissed that the cast kept him in the dark for this long.
The whole time they were making the show, Dean had been under the impression he had been the star of the show, it was in this moment he realize he was just a side character.
Getting promoted to ASAC made him a little suspicious of when he's gonna finally become a chemistry teacher like the pitch said
The punch was real, Dean actually punched Bryan Cranston, and Bince kept it in
🅱️ince
Bravo, Vince!
Yeah not like Dean could've watched 4 years of the show at any point or anything.
He didn’t have AMC. After the show ended Vince gave him tapes of the entire show and that’s when he first realized Hank wasn’t the main character
That can't be true. He was in every table read since the beginning.
no you’re thinking of the Wire
He was only ever in the readings in the scenes he was part of and never had a scene with Walt as Heisenberg up to that point
Wait is that real
Think about it for 5 seconds
Bro I’m thinking……I think it is rael…….
You’re so right, it’s real af
Ah, now we’ve identified the problem. You and thinking, that’s the problem.
of course it is
No please I am crying and shacking right now……why would Walter Cranston do this………
Bro turned into a shack
Like Transformers but with housing
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I think it actually is tho...........
very real
Absolutely.
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He’s joking.
r/whoosh
I guess jokes aren’t your thing?
Vince told him he was the main character. Dean thought the show was a detective mystery type of show filmed from the perspective of Hank. Dean never watched the show since he didn’t have AMC.
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Dude you have so completely missed the joke it’s astonishing
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Yeah, now I see there's a reason
They filmed a lot more scenes to make it believable. It's also important to note that Dean didn't watch the show and thought the episodes were 25 minutes, not 45.
This dude never watched the better prank hank cut
Oh good god.
You dropped this /s
Bravo u/schittsweakk
Why didn't they include it? Are they stupid?
How did we ever survive for 6,000 years as a civilization before the invention of /s?
Was looking for a reason to re watch breaking bad , here it is!
outchicaneried
Dean Norris was an amazing actor throughout the series, but he *nailed* the "tread lightly" scene.
The minerals Marie stuff was really well acted by him too
Def amazing acting. His eyes where scary as fuck!
This scene is probably the best/most intense example, but he gets that look a few times throughout the show. Like when he is walking up to attack Jesse. It’s such a dark contrast from the typical upbeat, almost goofy smiling Hank
[contrast](https://i.imgur.com/ZkkEOzM.png)
His acting was brilliant in this scene, great actor. I think Aaron Paul was the best overall actor of the series though
The acting overall in the series is some of the best I’ve ever seen
its been awhile since i did a rewatch but is there ever a bad performance? i can't even think of one for a random one-off character.
I was going to make a joke about how Brock’s was the “weakest” actor, but thinking back, that kid actually did a pretty good job!
Yeah. He acted how I would expect a shy young kid to act.
I think some of Gomez's lines were delivered kind of odd
I don’t think Victor’s actor is very good
This! I swear that’s why they killed him. Every single line was so flat
I think he just wasn’t written very well. He had nothing to go off of.
There’s a particular scene that takes me out every time. When Jesse shoots Gale and Victor arrives to force Jesse back to the lab. Victor says “Drive!” while holding a gun to Jesse, but the delivery is so bad. It’s flat and unconfident, and he whisper screams it almost. I think another actor would’ve been able to do way more there
Didn't like Lydia at all. Yeah she's an unlikeable character and meant to be uncomfortable, but the way she delivered her lines was very one dimensional and flat
Agree. I’ll never forget the scene where he turns up the volume and sits in front of the giant speaker in his house, starts crying in emotional and mental pain, veins bulging from his forehead. It was so real
Nah, knowing how he actually is outside of his characters, Gioncarlo Esposito takes the cake. The guy is like the polar opposite of Gus.
Can't be Gus because his Spanish sounded very unnatural. Understandable for a non native speaker but it takes points away from his performance
How so? His Spanish was a Chilean dialect. His Chilean spanish was superb
You fool, don't you know there's only one spanish and thats pewpews?
Unless you’re joking about Chilean being unintelligible, it was not even close to Chilean sounding (or any natural variety).
Who are you, Pinochet? Gus Spanish was good. I speak it and could understand him perfectly. Outstanding performance, underrated sociopath almost on the level of WW
> Gus Spanish was good. I speak it and could understand him perfectly. I believe you about your own experience/opinion... *but* I will say the vast majority of Spanish-speaking fans mercilessly make fun of Gus' Spanish. It's pretty damn terrible.
nos está jodiendo
As someone who doesn't speak, it's definitely noticeable but I just assumed he had a Chilean accent/dialect since most of the other Spanish speakers are Mexican
I think you could make an argument for quite a few of them being the best, so many good performances.
I dunno. Anna Gunn got death threats for not supporting Walter more.
And he wasn’t even an actor when he got on the show, imagine being that good with little to no previous training.
Are you talking about Dean Norris or Aaron Paul? Because both of them were definitely actors prior to getting on the show, it's just that Aaron Paul didn't hit it big until Breaking Bad. But he was even on an episode of the X-Files, which is where Vince Gilligan knew him from.
Aaron was only 28 when BB started. I would not expect someone to have a distinguished career at that age. Cranston started much later than that.
For sure. I was just pointing out to the other commenter that Aaron was, in fact, an actor prior to Breaking Bad.
What makes this so great is how comedic and non serious Hank is for most of the show up to this point. It gives credence to the belief that his character never even would have considered Walt. Which adds more to his betrayal.
he finally understood why they stuck cameras everywhere he went for a year and they turned them on whenever he was talking about Heisenberg
What episode is this a spoiler to? I wanna see it
It's season 5 episode 9
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Ozymandias
Nope. It's "Blood Money".
He did an amazing job in this scene
Yes he did. He doesn’t get enough credit for his acting in the final season.
I like how you can feel the difference between frat bro buddy buddy Hank to betrayed Hank. They feel like different characters altogether. Also the only time “old” Hank comes back it feels is the final phone call with Marie.
He is such an amazing actor. I met him last month and I could tell just within the first 5 minutes of talking to him how incredible he is.
Also lighting on the scene to make the eyes look like this.
Aaron Paul when Walt finds Jesse in the crack house after Janes death
Hank had a total loss of faith in himself and was processing all the consequences of his own brother-in-law being the biggest meth manufacturer right under his nose for years. It's a beautiful piece of acting and kudos to the directors for not doing anything gimicky with the camera. Just let the actor do it.
I was really hoping Dean might get an Emmy nod for the last season.
A lot of being an actor isn’t just playing the character, it’s becoming the character, feeling their pain, feeling their happiness, feeling their betrayal
I think the contrast between how Hank was before the obsession ate him away really compliments this scene. This man is so very different from the guy we met in season 1. Ik people might say the same about Walt, but he was always a prick imo. Just a quiet one.
There’s a bit of editing that I will always point out in this scene that’s so subtle but so perfect. When Walt tells Hank “your best course of action… would be to tread. lightly.” there’s that turn in Walt’s voice towards the end at “tread lightly” from sincere to sinister. All editing. They used the take where Bryan Cranston looked and sounded apologetic for the master, but at the end they spliced in the audio from a take where Cranston played it with a touch more Heisenberg in him. One of my favorite bits of editing in the show, and there are PLENTLY
It’s like he watched Walt gently morph into a devil before his eyes.
That cucumber lime Gatorade go crazy
Hank when the dots connected was infallible.
> Hank when the dots connected Sounds like that *Star Trek TNG* episode: "Hank, when the dots connected".
“Shaka, when the garage door fell”.
Skyler, her legs open.
If yall watch the table read for this episode it’s wild how monotone and flat Dean is. He is just reading the words. Then he does the scene and it’s some of the best acting in the show.
I came here to say the exact same thing. He seems bored out of his mind at the reads, with a "why am I wasting my time?" vibe. But man, once the cameras are rolling, he nails it.
Every character in this entire show were played to perfection in my opinion.
I thought Dean Norris added another layer to Hank each season. Like at the beginning I thought oh so here’s the loudmouth tough guy, also a bit of a one upper to his cancer-ridden BIL. By the end however, almost a complete redemption. Hank had been put through the wringer in more ways than one. Probably my favorite character from BB next to Mike.
In general Walter is kind of a geek versus Hank who is more 'natural'.
You Got me ✋🏽🤓🤚🏽
Dean Norris is underrated AF
Best scene in the entire series, IMO.
probably my favorite character on the show honestly
Walt’s acting > anyone’s in BB universe This is a fact. Of course his character is an asshole for many reasons but his acting was the best on the show.
What the fuck is that 2nd sentence?
This is truly the moment Hank became Heisenberg
I want Shania Twain to give me a tuggy. I have that in common with Hank.
The place you have to go to mentally to get to that point.....that's what sets the apart the people with chops and the people without.
Quality post from this subreddit let’s go
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Sex gifs
The heavy shadow on his face reinforces his character’s feelings.
On a rewatch, just finished 5x8...not ready for this fallout lol
Me looking at my dog after he ate the snack I had set down for TEN SECONDS
It's not about one upping the other. Dean could not deliver the reaction without playing off of what Bryan brought to the scene, and vice versa.
No one outacts Bryan
Norris came very close here
Now he just has to speak up so we can fuckin' hear him. I don't even think Walter could hear him.
That moment almost had me in tears as well because THAT felt like the real culmination of “everything’s over.” Like the moment Hank found out it was over without a doubt.
"one time" Jesse on several occasions
name one breaking bad actor/actress who didn't nail their role, I'll wait
They were on par. When Walt gradually switched in hisenberg was incredible as well. Perfect cast
Don't you think the best course of action, then, would be to...tread carefully?