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Mark Margolis’ most iconic scenes as Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul

Margolis earned an Emmy nomination for his work as Hector Salamanca.

Mark Margolis, a gifted journeyman character actor, died last week at the age of 83.

Some will remember Margolis for his role as Alberto The Shadow in Scarface. Others know him as Mr. Shickadance from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, while others might recognize him from his appearances in six different films by Darren Aronofsky, including Black Swan and The Wrestler.

While he had many roles – more than 160 acting credits – in a lengthy career that stretched from 1976 to 2023, Margolis’ most iconic on-screen performance was portraying the villainous drug lord confined to a wheelchair, Hector “Tio” Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

Fans of Vince Gilligan’s epic show about the math teacher turned meth kingpin Walter White first meet Hector in the second episode of the second season of Breaking Bad. He’s introduced as the uncle of the reckless drug dealer Tuco Salamanca. While Hector is paralyzed, bound to a wheelchair and unable to speak, he still has a sharp eye and remains incredibly smart and ruthless throughout the show – displaying much of it through the use of a bell.

While Hector has his moments in Breaking Bad that bring both comedy and terror, viewers get a fuller picture of him in Better Call Saul. While the prequel focuses mostly on Jimmy McGill’s transformation into Saul Goodman, it also illustrates the earlier days of the drug trade in New Mexico, and Hector’s reign as the cartel’s top man in Albuquerque before the rise of Gustavo Fring. We get to see Hector before he’s strapped to a wheelchair, and with the full use of both English and Spanish to deliver threats and barbs – some subtle, and some not.

Margolis earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his turn as Hector Salamanca. In Breaking Bad, he showed that he didn’t need dialogue to be fearsome. And in Better Call Saul, he got to show off the character’s quick trigger, rage and complexity.

Here are a few more of Margolis’ noteworthy scenes as Hector Salamanca from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

A warning here for spoilers and NSFW material and language.

Watch: Rams drop ‘Breaking Bad’-inspired trailer for 2023 NFL draft

The Rams are back in the (draft) lab with Walter White and Jesse Pinkman

The Los Angeles Rams went all-out last year with their heist movie trailer ahead of the 2022 NFL draft, a video that featured actors portraying Les Snead and Sean McVay, as well as the Rams’ own players trying their hands at acting.

This year, they dropped another draft trailer, but it’s not nearly as big-budget as last offseason’s video. Instead, the Rams went with a “Breaking Bad”-inspired theme as they get back in the lab for the 2023 draft.

They got Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, who played Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in the hit show, to join in on the fun, as well as Diplo and Cheech Martin.

Les Snead, Sean McVay, Raheem Morris are also featured in the video. Check it out below.

Gang officially back together in PopCorners’ second ‘Breaking Bad’ teaser

Walter White and Jesse Pinkman are back!

PopCorners caught our attention and now have delivered us the goods.

Along with the snack, “Walter White” is back in the frame with “Jesse Pinkman” in the Frito-Lay brand’s latest Super Bowl 57 ad teaser.

The first featured a couple of the “Breaking Bad” classics: lawn chairs, the desert landscape of Southwest America, a recognizable RV, and Aaron Paul as Jesse:

A teaser within the teaser: Paul answers a phone call? Who could it be?

Well, Bryan Cranston, a.k.a. Walter, already made it known he was set to appear in an upcoming Super Bowl 57 ad with PopCorners via his social media account on Instagram.

That has officially come to fruition in PopCorners‘ second advert preview. Many of the show’s recognizable features are back, as are Walt and Jesse, who are inside the RV in a scene fresh out of season two of the show.

A little back and forth between the two, this time featuring PopCorners, brings back the memories:

Further setting the anticipation high, PopCorners revealed things to come regarding the finished product of this commercial.

Raymond Cruz, another staple from the show who starred as “Tuco Salamanca,” will feature in the final ad.

As if this all isn’t enough to get one excited and make you think PopCorners could really do damage in Ad Meter’s 35th annual ratings this year, there’s more.

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The show’s creator, Vince Gilligan, has his fingers all over it: He has been revealed as the commercial’s director.

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Breaking Bad debuted 15 years ago and fans celebrated by sharing their favorite moments from the iconic series

“Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah science!”

It’s been 15 years since television viewers were introduced to The One Who Knocks, the chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin and the one they called Heisenberg – Walter H. White.

Breaking Bad – the iconic AMC series starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul – first appeared on television screens 15 years ago this week, making its debut on Jan. 20, 2008.

The show, created by Vince Gilligan, follows the evolution of Walt (played masterfully by Cranston) as a middle-class high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with lung cancer soon after his 50th birthday. Walt then starts cooking meth to secure financial stability for his wife (Anna Gunn), son (RJ Mitte) and soon-to-be-born daughter, should he die. He enlists his former student, degenerate drug dealer Jesse Pinkman (a breakout role for Paul) to help him. Eventually, the duo winds up working for the menacing and cool Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), the owner of a meth empire in the southwestern U.S. masquerading as the operator of fast-food chicken joints. Along the way, Walt and Jesse encounter hitman-slash-fixer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), scam artist and crooked lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), Vamanos Pest Control employee Todd Alquist (Jesse Plemons) and Walt’s brother-in-law, the DEA agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris). Mark Margolis, Bill Burr, Krysten Ritter and Robert Forster appear in the show in key supporting roles too.

Ultimately, Gilligan said he wanted to take a “milquetoast-ish guy and turn him into a bad guy,” and to “take this Mr. Chips character and have him turn himself into Scarface.” Mission accomplished.

Gilligan’s show ran for 62 episodes, spanning five seasons over six years. Its first season was shortened by a writer’s strike, which contributed to the show’s slow burn in gaining popularity. A lot of folks came to it via Netflix, which picked up the first three seasons just before the fourth aired in 2011.

Breaking Bad won 12 Emmys and two Golden Globes. It spawned a pair of spinoffs in “El Camino” a 2019 film focused on what happens to Paul’s Jesse Pinkman after the events of the show, and separate TV series, “Better Call Saul,” a prequel – and late in the show, sequel – centered around Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman.

It’s often associated with The Sopranos, The Wire and Mad Men as the Mount Rushmore of sorts of prestige television in the 21st century. In writing about the four shows in 2011, Chuck Klosterman wrote at the now-defunct Grantland: “Breaking Bad is the only one built on the uncomfortable premise that there’s an irrefutable difference between what’s right and what’s wrong, and it’s the only one where the characters have real control over how they choose to live.” Indeed, once Walt becomes cancer-free and financially secure by most folks’ standards, he keeps cooking and selling meth, because – as he later admits to Skyler – “I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really… I was alive.”

Where it ranks among the greatest television shows of all time can be debated, but what’s inarguable is that the show is a true masterpiece in storytelling. And it has no shortage of fans, judging from the outpouring of admiration it received on social media on its 15th anniversary.

Some of the clips here include some NSFW language. And of course, a spoiler warning for anyone who hasn’t seen the show.

‘Better Call Saul’ fans reacted to (SPOILER) looking much older in promised ‘Breaking Bad’ cameo

Walter White and Jesse Pinkman shared the screen once more.

WARNING: DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE LATEST BETTER CALL SAUL.

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It was never a secret that “Breaking Bad” stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul would eventually appear in the popular prequel “Better Call Saul” on AMC.

Both individuals have spoken about the long-anticipated cameos, which “Better Call Saul” star Bob Odenkirk teased and show creator Vince Gilligan promised.

It was no coincidence that Cranston and Paul recently attended a press event to unveil statues in New Mexico built to honor their iconic characters, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. They are also doing a press push for their mezcal company, Dos Hombres.

The two actors finally made their guest star appearances last night, returning as White and Pinkman in a flashback scene. Fans were excited to see the two share a screen once again:

But it didn’t take long for viewers to notice something wasn’t quite right.

Paul, who portrays Pinkman, was 27 years old when “Breaking Bad” first began filming in 2007. His character was supposed to be 23 years old in the pilot.

During the flashback episode of “Better Call Saul” last night, viewers return to a period in which Pinkman is around that same age. Paul, however, will turn 43 years old this month. Not only does he look older, but his voice is also noticeably deeper.

The makeup and lighting departments could only do so much work to disguise the forces of time. It didn’t take long for fans to react to what they saw:

Bryan Cranston la pasó de lo mejor en el juego de softball de celebridades de la MLB All-Star, los fans lo amaron

Los festejos de la Semana del All-Star de la MLB arrancaron esta semana en Los Angeles. Mientras que el Home Run Derby será más tarde hoy en la noche y el Juego de las Estrellas será la noche del martes, parece que tenemos que comentar sobre el …

Los festejos de la Semana del All-Star de la MLB arrancaron esta semana en Los Angeles.

Mientras que el Home Run Derby será más tarde hoy en la noche y el Juego de las Estrellas será la noche del martes, parece que tenemos que comentar sobre el increíble juego de softball de las celebridades de este fin de semana, porque pareció que la estrella de Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, la pasó fenomenal jugando en ese partido en el legendario Dodger Stadium.

No estamos seguros de si Cranston está trabajando en algún nuevo programa o alguna película nueva o en lo que sea, pero el look que trae estos días es de lo más genial. ¿Tal vez se pregunten de qué estamos hablando?

Hablamos de esto:

Traducción: Bryan Cranston es Willem Dafoe como Robin Williams en Jumanji.

 

Y de esto:

Traducción: Bryan Cranston se metió en su personaje para el juego de hoy.

 

Y definitivamente de esto:

Traducción: Bryan Cranston canalizando a su Bobby Cox interior.

 

El tipo está allá afuera viviendo su vida y disfrutando el momento.

También nos encantaron las bromas y los memes.

Traducción: SOY EL QUE BATEA.

 

Traducción: Mi bandeja de entrada viéndome cuando la abro por primera vez hoy.

 

Traducción: Yo cuando los Knicks finalmente obtengan a Donovan Mitchell.

 

Traducción: N’hombre, lo siento, pero ese es Tim Allen en Santa Cláusula.

 

Traducción 1: Jesse, necesitamos jugar beisbol.
Traducción 2: Bryan Cranston ayer en el juego de softball de celebridades del All-Star en el Dodger Stadium.

 

 

Artículo traducido por Ana Lucía Toledo

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