It’s been almost 15 years since Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) was unceremoniously killed within the Albuquerque desert throughout Breaking Unhealthy‘s critically acclaimed episode, “Ozymandias,” however the fanfare round it has but to die down. “I believe that’s the wonderful thing about TV at the moment. It’s now a novel that’s on the shelf,” Norris tells TV Insider in regards to the episode’s legacy.
Discovering himself injured because of Neo-Nazi gang chief Jack (Michael Bowen) and his males amidst a shootout, Hank’s destiny appeared pretty apparent, however that didn’t cease Walter White (Bryan Cranston) from memorably pleading for his brother-in-law’s life, providing Jack hundreds of thousands in change for the commerce.
However as viewers will recall, Hank regarded to Walt in his closing moments and stated, “You’re the neatest man I ever met, and also you’re too silly to see he made up his thoughts 10 minutes in the past.” Proper after, Jack shoots Hank within the head and promptly digs up Walt’s hidden barrels of cash, taking most of it for himself, in addition to taking Walt’s former associate in crime, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), prisoner.
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“Yearly, new folks expertise the entire sequence… So I believe it’s nice that it lives on within the ether, simply within the cultural zeitgeist,” Norris says of Breaking Unhealthy‘s ongoing reputation. “And it continues to have that type of impression. I believe it’s extra recognized now than it was when it first got here out.”
The present and this specific episode’s notoriety continued to thrive partially amid stay-at-home orders throughout the pandemic as Norris notes, “Lots of people binged it,” throughout that point. “And it’s enjoyable. I get 15-year-old children, and 18-year-old children, all the time coming as much as me and so they’ve simply seen it [for the first time], and right here it’s [nearly] 15 years later.”
In fact, Norris didn’t cling up his metaphorical hat as Hank following “Ozymandias,” because the actor went on to reprise his function within the prequel spinoff, Higher Name Saul. “It was nice to see everyone once more. It was nice to be again in Albuquerque. We needed to hold it very below wraps,” Norris recollects of the expertise.
As followers will keep in mind, he returned alongside costar Steven Michael Quezada, who performed Hank’s associate on the DEA, Steve Gomez, a.okay.a. Gomie. “They didn’t need to spoil that we had been there, so we had been always hidden from the crowds watching and stuff like that, however it was so wonderful to revisit it.”
Norris particularly loved his return onscreen in Higher Name Saul as a result of it introduced a extra vibrant model of Hank again to life. “It was good as a result of we obtained to return to the early Hank the place he was humorous and assured and a blowhard,” he laughs, “versus the depressed Hank that [emerged in later seasons of Breaking Bad].”
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