Bryan Cranston & Aaron Paul Bring Back Walter & Jesse For PopCorners’ ‘Breaking Bad’ Super Bowl Ad

There’s an alternate beingness wherever Walter White turns to baking alternatively of cooking, starring himself to go not a cause kingpin but a snack mogul. Such a satellite was glimpsed successful the previews for PopCorners’ debut Super Bowl commercial. After the marque teased that it would person a Breaking Bad-themed rotation connected the spot airing during Super Bowl LVII (on Feb. 12), the archetypal teasers amusement that, yes, Bryan Cranston is backmost arsenic Walter White, and he’s not alone. Aaron Paul will reprise Jesse, and Raymond Cruz is backmost arsenic Tuco Salamanca.

The RV is backmost too. “You’re going to flood it,” says Walter arsenic Jesse tries to get the RV to start. In Walter’s manus is simply a sky-blue container of White Cheddar PopCorners chips. “I’m not going to flood it,” says Jesse, dressed successful his trademark overgarment and knit cap. “That, to my ear, distinctively sounds distinctly similar flooding,” says the shaved-head Walter arsenic helium takes a wound of a PopCorners chip. However, Jesse gets the van to crook over. Still, Walt isn’t impressed. “Even a unsighted squirrel…”

The different disposable teaser shows Jesse seated successful 1 of 2 tract chairs extracurricular the Winnebago. Jesse has a bluish container of PopCorners unfastened connected his thigh arsenic helium fields a telephone call. “Yo, what’s up?” helium asks. If the teasers person the consciousness of a Breaking Bad episode, it’s due to the fact that amusement creator Vince Gillian directs the commercial. The commercialized volition instrumentality spot successful a reimagined country from Season 2’s occurrence “4 Days Out.”

“We are excited to revive 1 of the astir celebrated tv shows of each clip to archer the PopCorners’ communicative for the archetypal clip astatine the Super Bowl,” said Frito-Lay VP of selling Rhasheda Boyd aft the archetypal representation hinted astatine Cranston reprising his iconic role, “and we can’t hold to spot fans’ reactions to who and what’s coming.” (h/t Entertainment Weekly)

Breaking Bad concluded its main communicative successful 2013 earlier spinning disconnected with 2019’s El Camino: A Breaking Bad Story and the precocious completed Better Call Saul. In a January 2023 occurrence of The Kelly Clarkson Show, Bryan reflected connected his clip connected the career-shifting, award-winning show, peculiarly 1 occurrence [SPOILER ALERT] that shook him to the core.

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In the occurrence titled “Phoenix,” Walter finds Jesse, who had go addicted to heroin, successful furniture with his woman Jane (Krysten Ritter), who had antecedently blackmailed Walt implicit the wealth helium owed Jesse (which Walt didn’t privation to springiness unless his spouse was clean.) “I did a country connected Breaking Bad wherever I was watching a pistillate dice successful the 2nd season,” said Cranston, per ScreenRant “and [despite] being prepared for that, each of a sudden, her look left, and the look of my existent girl showed up, and I was watching my existent girl die. It choked me.”

“For astir 2 oregon 3 seconds, I saw my daughter’s look and … it choked maine up, and that went away, and Krysten Ritter’s look came back, and determination she was, and it was like, ‘Oh my god.’ It is an affectional hazard that actors spell through, we person to enactment ourselves successful a presumption of vulnerability for that to perchance happen, due to the fact that you’re consenting to spell into the unknown,” helium added.

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