‘Breaking Bad’ Alum Raymond Cruz Reveals Why It Would Be ‘Difficult’ To Play Tuco Ever Again (Exclusive)

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Breaking Bad fans should beryllium other excited for the Super Bowl this twelvemonth acknowledgment to PopCorners. Bryan Cranston (Walt Whitman), Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman), and Raymond Cruz (Tuco Salamanca) each reunited for PopCorners’ debut Super Bowl LVII commercial (watch below) that volition aerial during the large crippled connected February 12, astir 10 years aft the deed AMC bid finished airing. Raymond, 61, spoke to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY and said it was “surreal” to reprise his relation arsenic Tuco, the iconic cause kingpin. But Raymond besides admitted that he’s unsure if he’d play Tuco ever again successful a imaginable future Breaking Bad-related project.

“It’s a hard task. I accidental it with trepidation, due to the fact that it wasn’t casual to bash the archetypal time,” Raymond explained. “It wasn’t casual to reprise it connected Better Call Saul. And it decidedly was not casual to bash successful the PopCorners ad,” helium added. “It’s truthful taxing connected you. It’s truthful precocious energy. Even erstwhile Tuco’s not saying anything, it’s bubbling underneath.”

The histrion admitted that helium doesn’t “miss anything” astir playing Tuco, who met his demise successful play 2 of Breaking Bad, but popped up again successful the prequel series Better Call Saul starring Bob Odenkirk. “It’s truthful hard to do,” Raymond besides said astir the role.

Raymond besides opened up astir however helium got backmost into the mindset of Tuco to film the commercial. “Luckily I constitute everything down. So whenever I physique a quality I constitute everything down. So I had my notes,” helium said. “You person to bash each the enactment again. I’m not similar Tuco. So I had to spell backmost and find precisely wherever I was at. How I built it, you know, mentally, physically, emotionally, wherever the quality lives. And past you person to recreate that. And to person this level to bash it was amazing.”

Raymond told HL how thrilled helium was to play Raymond again, and reunite with 2 of his former co-stars, for the PopCorners Super Bowl commercial. “It was astonishing to person PopCorners interaction you that they privation to recreate the full Breaking Bad environment and bring these iconic characters unneurotic erstwhile again,” helium told HL. “To backmost successful the aforesaid situation with the aforesaid RV that they utilized successful the show, and to beryllium wearing the aforesaid wardrobe, it each felt precise surreal. It’s astir similar it ne'er happened. It’s similar a dream.”

Raymond said that filming the commercialized with Bryan and Aaron “felt arsenic if we stepped backmost into the Breaking Bad universe. It felt arsenic if we had ne'er left, adjacent though each this clip has passed.” Raymond besides said Breaking Bad fans volition “get a immense laugh” retired of the commercial, acknowledgment to PopCorners’ “twist” connected it. “They’re gonna emotion it,” helium said.

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