Apostrophe
For our first episode back, we bring you the stories of two bad guys. Breaking Bad guys – Bryan Cranston aka Walter White and Giancarlo Esposito aka Gus Fring. Both spent decades bouncing around Hollywood. Both faced major rejection. Both the least suspecting drug overlords of all time.
ICYMI, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has a rejection story of his own. The pilot for Breaking Bad was rejected by Showtime, FX, TNT & HBO. Find our “Rejecting Breaking Bad” episode here.
Hope you’ll join us.
Major sources for this episode include:
GQ: “The Last Stand of Walter White”
The Hollywood Reporter: “Bleak, Brutal, Brilliant ‘Breaking Bad’: Inside the Smash Hit That Almost Never Got Made”:
Podcast: Smartless “Bryan Cranston”
Variety: “Bryan Cranston Reflects on Early Rejection and the ‘Breaking Bad’ Scene That Still Rocks Him”
Variety: “Bryan Cranston on His Early Roles, Dealing With Rejection and His ‘Erasable Mind’”
tvovermind: “The Real Reason Bryan Cranston Was Hired to Play Walter White on “Breaking Bad””
Television Academy: “Bryan Cranston”
SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations: “Giancarlo Esposito for ‘Parish’”
Variety: “Giancarlo Esposito Was So Broke Before ‘Breaking Bad’ That He Considered Arranging His Own Murder So His Kids Could Get His Life Insurance Money”
The Guardian: “‘I was really desperate’: Giancarlo Esposito on Gus Fring, Sesame Street – and how he nearly hired a hitman”
Dolce Magazine: “Giancarlo Esposito: Don’t Wait To Be Great!”
Jim and Sam Show: “Giancarlo Esposito Considered Arranging His Own Death | Jim Norton & Sam Roberts”
Backstage Magazine: “Piecing Together Giancarlo Esposito”
GQ: “Giancarlo Esposito Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters”
Oklahoma State University: “Getting to Know Giancarlo Esposito”
Vulture: “Giancarlo Esposito Finds Elegance in Every Bad Guy Parish is giving one of Hollywood’s greatest journeymen his long-deferred shot at antihero stardom.”
Writer & Host: Sidney Hirst-O’Reilly
Executive Producer & Co-Host: Terry O’Reilly
Researcher & Series Producer: Allison Pinches
Director: Callie O’Reilly
Supervising Producer: Debbie O’Reilly
Engineer: Geoff Devine
Theme music: Casey Pick, Jeremiah Pick & James Atin
Tunes: APM Music
For our first episode back, we bring you the stories of two bad guys. Breaking Bad guys – Bryan Cranston aka Walter White and Giancarlo Esposito aka Gus Fring. Both spent decades bouncing around Hollywood. Both faced major rejection. Both the least suspecting drug overlords of all time.
ICYMI, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has a rejection story of his own. The pilot for Breaking Bad was rejected by Showtime, FX, TNT & HBO. Find our “Rejecting Breaking Bad” episode here.
Hope you’ll join us.
Major sources for this episode include:
GQ: “The Last Stand of Walter White”
The Hollywood Reporter: “Bleak, Brutal, Brilliant ‘Breaking Bad’: Inside the Smash Hit That Almost Never Got Made”:
Podcast: Smartless “Bryan Cranston”
Variety: “Bryan Cranston Reflects on Early Rejection and the ‘Breaking Bad’ Scene That Still Rocks Him”
Variety: “Bryan Cranston on His Early Roles, Dealing With Rejection and His ‘Erasable Mind’”
tvovermind: “The Real Reason Bryan Cranston Was Hired to Play Walter White on “Breaking Bad””
Television Academy: “Bryan Cranston”
SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations: “Giancarlo Esposito for ‘Parish’”
Variety: “Giancarlo Esposito Was So Broke Before ‘Breaking Bad’ That He Considered Arranging His Own Murder So His Kids Could Get His Life Insurance Money”
The Guardian: “‘I was really desperate’: Giancarlo Esposito on Gus Fring, Sesame Street – and how he nearly hired a hitman”
Dolce Magazine: “Giancarlo Esposito: Don’t Wait To Be Great!”
Jim and Sam Show: “Giancarlo Esposito Considered Arranging His Own Death | Jim Norton & Sam Roberts”
Backstage Magazine: “Piecing Together Giancarlo Esposito”
GQ: “Giancarlo Esposito Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters”
Oklahoma State University: “Getting to Know Giancarlo Esposito”
Vulture: “Giancarlo Esposito Finds Elegance in Every Bad Guy Parish is giving one of Hollywood’s greatest journeymen his long-deferred shot at antihero stardom.”
Writer & Host: Sidney Hirst-O’Reilly
Executive Producer & Co-Host: Terry O’Reilly
Researcher & Series Producer: Allison Pinches
Director: Callie O’Reilly
Supervising Producer: Debbie O’Reilly
Engineer: Geoff Devine
Theme music: Casey Pick, Jeremiah Pick & James Atin
Tunes: APM Music