Better Call Saul's co-creator Peter Gould has officially confirmed that Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will reprise their roles as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in the spinoff's final season.
As reported by Variety, Gould announced the news at PaleyFestLA at the Better Call Saul panel, but shared little else as to how they will make their return.
"I don’t want to spoil things for the audience, but I will say the first question we had when we started the show was, ‘Are we gonna see Walt and Jesse on the show?’ Instead of evading, I’ll just say yeah,” Gould said. “How or the circumstances or anything, you’ll just have to discover that for yourself, but I have to say that’s one of many things that I think you’ll discover this season.”
Bob Odenkirk, the actor who plays the titular Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman, attempted to tease more by saying, "if you can believe it, there's more." Unfortunately for those who can't wait any longer, Gould cut him off before he could reveal too much.
Odenkirk did, however, say that the two shows are even more "entwined" in this final season and that fans will most likely want to rewatch Breaking Bad once Better Call Saul has ended.
"I personally feel that the two shows — ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’ — are entwined even more than ever in the final season," Odenkirk said. "And I think that’s surprising and cool, and it’s gonna make you want to watch ‘Breaking Bad’ again.”
Better Call Saul co-creator and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan also confirmed the news, saying it would be a "damn shame" if these two characters didn't show up.
"These two worlds cross over in a way that you haven’t seen before, that’s for sure,” Gilligan said. “It would be a damn shame if the show ended without [Cranston and Paul] appearing, would it not?”
Better Call Saul has featured many characters from Breaking Bad, including Hector Salamanca, Don Eladio, the Salamanca twins, Hank Schrader, Steven Gomez, Gus Fring, and Mike Ehrmantraut. While not everyone made it to the end of Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul is a prequel story and allowed for fan favorites to get more screen time.
Better Call Saul's sixth and final season has already begun and it will conclude in the second part of the season that begins on July 11.
In our review of the first two episodes of Better Call Saul's final season, we said that it "picks right up where it left off as Saul Goodman’s origin story continues to build and the stakes get more dire for everyone in his orbit."
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