@@calebhope2390 yeah lol they get paid just because people idolise them and think of them as someone who is somehow greater then then. Bloody teachers are the ones who make these actors and they get paid dirt shit
@@iracingtf5051 the world fully functions without actors....its not a important job at all just like sports..they all get paid waaaaaaay to much for what they are worth
Imagine hating a fictional character so much that you send death-threats to the actress who played her. And then imagine the reason you hated the character was that she wasn't supportive enough of her murdering, lying, narcissistic ego-maniac criminal of a husband. Jesus, lol
@@gabrielko2147 Yes, apparently Anna Gunn received a ton of hate mail, including threats of violence. I hear this is sadly common for live action characters with an unhealthy anti-fanbase, many actors have gone through this, but the internet adds some fuel to that geek rage.
I really hate that kind of audience lol they put so much of their emotion into the movies and always complain about the character's behavior instead of understanding them.
Anna Gunn being a mother herself, probably envisioned the same thing happening to her, and used that emotion. Its not a great place to be mentally, which is why actors should regularly see a therapist after roles like these. That, and having a great support system in their lives
Even just watching this video I teard up cause her acting is so real and truthfully you can hear the shakiness in her voice, she's really going through what her Character is
@@LittleWhiskey did you just call Breaking Bad a film? Yet you have Peggy Hill as your avatar! What is going on here?! What planet are you commenting from and when will you visit Earth?
If we think about it, Skyler's story is one of the saddest in the Breaking Bad universe, in the last episode she is no longer the Skyler of the first chapter who was more optimistic and tried to look for the best for her family, in the end she lost it everything, his house, his social status and his family was completely damaged by Walt's decisions.
The only consolation is knowing that Skyler has some kind of a future, no matter how much she's suffered. She and her kids still have each other; maybe she and Marie will find a way forward as sisters too. Whereas Walt died alone in a Nazi meth lab, knowing his whole family (and whatever friends he ever had) hated his guts.
@@sidleyparkhermit6391 Walt died because he made immoral, egotistical decisions, you reap what you sow, he was lucky to get away with it by dying like he wanted from the start of the show. Walt's family was forced into it.
I dislike Skyler for a very simple reason: She made fundamental 180 turns on a whim whenever the plot needed her to, particularly in the early seasons. Going from concerned wife to serving divorce papers to protecting a meth cook using legal loopholes, turning from upstanding citizen and mom to money laundering accomplice who pays a cop's medical bills with drug money, plus the unnecessary drama (dealing with Ted, jumping in the pool etc.)... I could never shake the feeling that she was more of a plot device than a character even after she got more consistent in the last couple of seasons. Props to Anna Gunn though, she sells the character really well.
@@bannedcommander2932 i completely disagree. her transition from being super uptight and legally moral to helping out with highly criminal activity is very slow and methodical.
She did such a good job on the whole show. It was such masterful writing and acting to have the audience hate her character, when she was the one that made the most sense.
Yeah, honestly I never really hated Skyler, I could completely understand how she felt, to feel completely frustrated and powerless as her husband of however many years was becoming this completely different person in front of her and she tried to hold the family together while everything was falling apart because of what he was doing.
Made the most sense? In what way? I mean I know I am essentially asking that difficult question to the peanut gallery but how on earth did you get that? This seems to me like the response a "normal" person would have to this scenario. Which is probably what you are, just know, you are talking from that perspective, not the perspective of a person who has had to deal with hardship but a normal person whose biggest lost was probably their grandma when they were younger. I know the writing of this show is meant to convey the effects of a bad decision but I feel that people like you miss the deeper points of breaking bad, like pride, ego and to a certain degree, purpose. All of that gets lost on morons like your who just see victims everywhere. It's like the sixth sense but with emotional psychopaths.
@@yourmomssaidicouldhavemyun2590 I honestly have no idea what point you are making. I understand you think I am stupid. But I don’t understand what point you think I am missing. I’m just going to assume that something I said reminded you of something that makes you mad, and you just had an argument with yourself. When I say she made the most sense, I mean that her choices were the most in line with what a person would do to make the best of a given situation without causing more harm than good. What the hell do you mean finding victims everywhere? I really can’t believe you typed that response to what I said. You are clearly having your own moment on my thread.
What makes BB one of best shows ever is the fact that every single actors put their guts to it. No overshadowed actors, just perfect balance of talents
The writing of Skyler's character had always amazed me because of how real it feels. I know that we're set up to dislike her because we're following Walt's story as the 'protagonist' and Sklyer makes it difficult for him to get away with things - but when you actually imagine yourself in her position as a partner to someone who is constantly lying to you, disappearing for days, and bringing you into a world of crime, you see just how real and reasonable most of her actions & reactions are. And I just love that she is unapologetically written as an intelligent character who can see through Walt's lies.
Watching her fall apart in the final season was pretty rough, it's insane people fail to empathize with her. Was she petty at times? Sure, but her husband was lying to her since the first episode. He was cooking and dealing METH, killing people, all while lying through his teeth. All while she had to deal with her pregnancy (AND childbirth), a son in high school (with a major disability) AND Walt having cancer. The only truly bad thing she ever did was smoke cigs while pregnant. What's even more insane is that she came around and started trying to help Walt, but he was greedy and always wanted more. He got over his head and got family killed, yet people expect her to be supportive? She had every right to leave him, the dude was a ticking time bomb like Mike said.
I'm surprised she didn't leave him sooner, she really stuck around till the end and put up with all of it and people are still saying she's "annoying" like guys why is this so hard for you to understand? If you were with someone for YEARS and you have children together and they suddenly start leading a life of crime that could endanger the entire household then how would you even sleep at night? Not to mention the entire concept of the person you were with is now suddenly a completely different person and not AT ALL the person you fell inlove with, how you gonna deal with that?
I think that with all that happened, people tend to forget that Skylar is left behind to deal with all of this with 2 kids, no house, crappy job. I'd love to see a '10 years later' movie or mini-series.
If his plan works out Flynn gets a few million from Walt but it is kinda telling how that is Walt's idea of kinda fixing this and how it is still about him feeling like "the man" providing for his family (this is why he does not want Elliot to use any of their money but just Walt's. The traume and the destruction of the family can never be fixed.
For the people in the comments saying she’s just faking it, she’s just acting, that she’s dumb or crazy because she can’t snap out of it, she isn’t. I have personally done work of this emotional caliber at an acting school with like 10 other people in the class, where we had to “play with our cats” for 3 minutes or so, and then, immediately after, one by one, for 3 minutes, say our final goodbyes to them on their death bed at the vet in front of the entire class. The sheer raw power of that experience will haunt me until the day I die. Every single emotion in that room was real and you could FEEL it. THAT is what real acting looks like and feels like, and Anna Gunn did a phenomenal job in this scene.
@@abcdefzhiji think they mean they were told to act like they had a cat they loved very much, pretend they were playing with it briefly, only to then have to act out losing the same cat all as if it were real.
This scene changed my entire perspective on Skyler. It's not that I hated her before but I fell into how Walt felt about her, and here I saw her for what she was, a mother at the whim of her crazy egotistical husbands desires. Insane acting
The acting was so good in those final episodes of Breaking Bad, I don’t see how anyone did their job without feeling emotionally traumatized after those scenes were shot.
Ozymandias, to me, is the single best episode of television ever created. The emotional roller-coaster you were on, and the horror of what Walt was going to do to that baby, and the feeling of dread that only a parent could have. It was incredible. I wish I could forget it and watch it again.
@@labadaba5088 yeah I don't get why people say some episodes of shows are hard to watch, maybe I'll shed a tear if it's sad but hard to watch ? It's a big word
Lord, Anna Gunn is such a breathtaking actor. I hate that people don't like Skyler because the show would not have even a fraction of it's emotional weight without her.
I hate that people don't realize that there is a right way and a wrong way to hate Skyler. A lot of people hate Skyler as a character, saying she's annoying and wishing she wasn't in the show. But the "right" way is: you're supposed to hate her because you as an audience member are falling for Walt's manipulation, his self-serving lies. Doing so is what makes the realization that you were rooting for a malipulative, murdering, psychopathic drug lord, and hating on his loving wife who by comparison was a saint, hit like a sack of bricks
I get not like her character. I mean, I find Marie annoying, but Betsy Brandt is such an incredible actress for having such an awesome performance. No matter what, the actors don’t deserve to get the hate for what the characters do
The fact that this isn't even the final take is astonishing, who knows how many takes there must've been, and each of the actors put themselves through all the emotional rollercoaster over and over. Just brilliant.
These are the types of scenes I watch and realize that acting just isn’t for everybody. And I don’t even mean the obvious point that not everyone’s good enough to be an actor, but perhaps more importantly, it takes a special talent to bring yourself to such a place, emotionally, to properly portray the character, and then walk away from it and return to your own life, in this case, hopefully a much happier one. Credit to the crew for helping Anna through it all.
And equally for directors, they have to repeatedly watch the actors go into those vulnerable, dark mental states. I'm not sure that I'd be able to watch that over and over like them. You can say that's the script or the job, but I'd still probably feel a decent amount of guilt.
This is so hard to watch. I literally cried watching her. You realize that she isn't just making facial expressions to make herself look heartbroken and terrified. She actually has to feel heartbroken and terrified. Wonderful job, Anna Gunn. You made one of the best scenes in television history.
@@m-linko Who are you to determine people's personal experiences? You're acting pretty quirky by thinking that you know the actions of strangers on the internet.
She did such a good job of acting that I didn't even feel the second hand cringe I usually do when I watch a behind-the-scenes clip, it felt _so real._ Even knowing and seeing that there were cameras rolling and it was all supposed to be fake, there was something about it that seriously convinced me about it's legitimacy. Genuinely amazing.
I’m really fascinated with the two contrasting ways we see her do this scene. The first one, if she’s off as if she’s exhausted and, while not necessarily hopeless, knows that this won’t do anything since Walt can’t hear her. The second one, is just raw panic and fear for, not her life, but the life of her child. Truly an amazing performance by Ms. Gunn.
Ill admit, in the earlier seasons, skylar wasn’t my favorite, but as the show darkened I really started to love her character, and really understood a lot of the things she did. Anna played her beautifully and this scene was so incredible and emotional I get chills every single time
As someone who acted throughout high school and college, it's weird to see someone this good at acting. Like you actually start to feel bad for her and feel her pain in a way. It was so good that she even started to convince herself it was real. There are few actors in this world that are able to get into character like that, maybe only a few each generation, and we should really appreciate that we get to see it.
@@henrysmthing289 False. That's a TikTok lie. It was all scripted and you can watch in one of the blooper reels on youtube where 'Walter' is practicing his throw before the actual shot.
I hate the internet, every time they talk about breaking bad they say “Walt was right” and “skylar was stupid”, but if you were in a relationship and you found out they were public enemy number one in america for drug crimes, please tell me how you can possibly justify that as an excuse to pay for your cancer bills - it’s like saying you should rob banks if you can pay for insulin for type 2 diabetes, I mean, I know that harsh but crime is not the answer, even if breaking bad is one of the best shows ever.
Skylar is the pinnacle representation of Walt's old life. The writers face us with the crazy dilemma of pitting the audience against her, since she becomes the resistance to the narrative. Walt built a safe, mundane cage of self defeat and loathing and she ultimately was the warden. Many people (especially men) can sympathize with Walt, in relating to his life before the business. An exhaustive list of failures and shattered dreams, are what sells this tragedy. Large in part because it's a self reflection for the many that are Walt but never ended up breaking bad. They cheer him on, as they shake their fist from inside their own little cages.
@@ldorganics In case you still do not understand it basically means men need to take responsibility for once in their existance and go to therapy instead of expecting a woman to fix their entire life and all of their issues, and then turning into bitter hateful losers when that does not happen because women are people too, not free psychologists.
Vince actually secretly threatened to kill her daughter just before shooting so she would give the most emotional performance possible. Bravo Vince! Edit: stop insulting @MB please, they made a mistake and misjudged the nature of my comment and then they apologized in a later reply! Stop being needlessly mean!
I can't imagine a "normal" person would do that. If a person can't separate reality from fiction like that, then there's clearly something wrong with them. I disliked the character for all the wrong reasons, which actually makes her an incredible actress.
exactly, people dont realize that characters mirror real life sometimes, and anna gunn was just showing what the story of a drug lords wife looks like.
Did people send anna deaththreats? Cause first of all her character is well written and second of all if a character is bad its the producers fault like jeez
@Jose Barraza I've never had nightmares because of horror movies or anything, I watch it all, but the scene where Andrea is killed in front of Jesse has given me many, many, many nightmares.
When they did Janes death Brain said he saw his own daughter and his crying was %100 legit. Supposedly it really messed with him bad for the rest of the day
This was the hardest scene in the whole show for me to watch. First time seeing it, my blood just ran cold. Anna is amazing in this show and truly doesn’t deserve anywhere near the amount of hate she gets. She more than earned that Emmy
This is Rian Johnson directing by the way. Before everyone hated him for Last Jedi he led some of the best episodes on Breaking Bad. People tend to forget that.
Because unlike TLJ, Vince wasn't going to let RJ come in and fuck up his show. Disney on the other hand had literally no plans for a story and let RJ come in and fuck up the entire continuity of star wars, and ruin any chances for the sequel trilogy to be a cohesive narrative.
Agreed, I was amazed by how many people hated her, but I have a feeling that they were, in fact, the Walt fans who had rather misogynistic expectations of her. It just seems like most of their complaints centered around her being “crazy” and such, dismissing the brutal reality that no one wants their spouse to be a fucking drug lord?
@@helenaEFFERVESCENC3 misogynistic? 😂 It’s because she cheated on Walter, got involved in the drug business when no one asked her, and spent his money with the guy she cheated on him with. She always had to be the victim in every in situation. Even her sister said that too. That’s why she was disliked.
@@jhonsmith5710 1. the cheating was done so that walter would divorce her or leave the house, she did this after she found out that walt is a drug dealer. 2. Got involved when no one asked her? Bro Walt needed her to launder his money and continue to cover for him in front of hank and marie. Its like saying saul got involved when no one asked him. Walt needed her and she needed to cover for her family. She realised walt isn't gonna change no matter what she does so she changed to protect the family. 3. She gave ted the money to protect walt and her family. Cause ted wasn't gonna money back to irs and if irs checks ted account, they will check all of the employess accounts too and that means they will get to skyler and walt too. And how would it look in front of irs that a fired chemistry teacher and a book keeper just bought a car wash that almost cost a million. 4. She is the victim here. None of this would have happened if walter had taken elliot and grechen's money and didn't started cooking meth. Everything would be fine. His cancer would have been cured, he would still be teacher, skyler and walter jr would have been happy and hank would be alive. Watch the show before commenting idiotic takes like this
I never actually felt what Skyler felt like until I got a partner myself. Seeing the love of your life slowly change for the worse and endangers the life of your family all for pride, that's gotta be one of the worst feelings
I’m casually listening to youtube videos while playing videogames so I wasn’t even paying a lot of attention to the video but hearing Anna Gunn’s cries still gave me chills in the spine (again). What an incredible actress.
This scene hit different now that I have an 11 month old baby girl. The pain in Skylers voice makes me tear up 😭 I can’t imagine anybody taking my child away from me
Same, I just rewatched the whole show and this time around I have a 21 month old. I couldn’t get past this scene without breaking down. She made it feel so real, like it was happening to me too. I needed my husband to hold me afterward
I was thinking this, too ☺️ Let’s hope it was either a huge set or the neighbors were well-prepped. My overly-concerned self would be calling for help 😇
The people living on that street, assuming that wasn't a set (I do not know), were probably used to it seeing as they had recorded there for years at that point and they were probably aware of when filming would take place.
It's insane. Not only in the fact that she has to be in the character's headspace, but also in the fact that she can return to "the zone" after the taking a break from the snow. She got in the character, get out and in again. Wow.
I'll never understand the hate Anna got. I got into BB few years after it finished and I very surprised to read about the hate she got during the time it aired. Both her and the character.
can't imagine what it's like being an actor who really gets into these roles. even after the scene is over you can't stop crying. you put yourself in this character's shoes and you can't help but feel for them because even if it's fake it's still realistic. i'm sure it feels like you're living a part of their life
@@Goner_Requiem Some actor can cry on command. I had a friend who have done theater and he could cry on command. He once put a nice example : You know when you have done something really embarassing? like in public? And when you think about it 2 years later you are still embarasses AF thinking about it. He told me he was doing the same for sadness, reviving sad memory or even imagining horrible situation. That's also why it can take a toll on the actor. Sometimes they have to imagine someone close dying or similar things and convince themself that it's real.
That's the reason why I don't act, even though I love it so much, because there's a professional threshold to actual real greatness that you will only overcome if you truly have the same feelings as the character (meaning you aren't acting anymore, you are being truthful to who you are on that moment), and this can be extremely dangerous depending on the role.
yeah, shes a brilliant actress, the emotions she brought felt so real, its like they say cut but shes gotten so into the roll she has no way to hold back the weight of skylers feelings
I started watching Breaking Bad last year. I heard so many times that Skyler is a horrible person. I remember that my friend told me that she's more annoying than Lori from TWD. And guess what? I didn't see that. I think Skyler is a sensible person. People hate her because she didn't let her husband ruin her and their children life. She was always trying to find a good solution - like when she asked Elliot&Gretchen for help or when she back to her job. What did you do if you were her? Pregnat woman, husband with cancer. She was totally alone with her pregnancy and she was strong.
@@wintergirll idk weirdly on my second watch I still didn’t like her in season 1 and maybe 2 (probably due to the way they frame her then), but when she started to become a sorta femme fatale in seasons 3-4 I really grew to love her character
you know that last take teared me up, i didnt remember what exactly was happening here but her acting told me. i know exactly what she feels and what happened. amazing
Finishied the show for the first time and honestly, I don’t know how you could hate her acting skills because her role playing as Skyler White is just simply brilliant especially during these very intense scenes where it makes Skyler seem like a real person going through very real emotions as opposed to someone acting as that character.
Yeah, I don't hate Anna, I hate the character of Skyler. I feel this way *because* of her acting and how good it is -- along with the incredible writing in the show.
@@PenroseMusic if you ended the show hating Skyler, I'm sorry to tell you but that's not because they wanted you to hate her, it's because you missed the whole point of Walt's character
@Ray Snider I hated skylar because the whole point of the show was kinda walt's manipulation. The show makes it seem like walt's drug business is understandable and should be supported by his wife, and it sort of manipulates the viewer into siding with walt.
What I love is that it’s not just Skyler screaming and crying against her child being taken, it’s everything she did herself to contribute to the situation snowballing to where it finally culminated in this episode. I think in her mind she’s screaming at Walt just as much as she’s screaming at her past self. People can hate on Rian Johnson all they want. Sure he’s done things that should be criticized, but he’s also done some amazing work in his career. Ozymandias was right at the top in my opinion
@@AxeIRad yes indeed. For some time now myself and a small group of fellow cinephiles have been subscribing to the belief that no matter how good a director might be, when they work on a previously established franchise entry, it almost always turns out to be one of their worst films. This is usually due to studios stepping in and stepping on the directors toes with very specific demands and limitations on their creativity. All that to say that yes. David Lynch should have never adapted Dune. Rian Johnson should have never made The Last Jedi. Most of his other films are objectively well executed.
@@tgirltouhou I mean best of sequels isn't really a gold star. There's a new hope 2 electric bugaloo. The just wrong movie that is the last jedi. And the completely non sensical rise of Skywalker. The last jedi is in a weird place for me. Because its my least favorite Star Wars movie without a doubt. But it's also probably the best written of the sequels. The main issue I have with it is that it doesn't fit well in the universe. Like the chase makes no sense to me. My only thought was why doesn't half of Kylo's fleet just hyperspace jump in front of the resistance and pincer move. The big one was Luke considering taking out Kylo even if he instantly decided not to. It doesn't fit. Especially when watching these movies in order. Going from redeem Vader Luke to kill Ben Luke feels wrong. Even if you say it's been 30 years, we as the audience weren't shown enough to justify the change in Luke. So looking at it as a standalone movie. It's not that bad. But as a star Wars movie in the main series, I can't stand it. Whatever, the sequels are done and they sucked. It was doomed from force awakens. Imagine being given creative control over the beast that is Star Wars. Then going with Empire vs Rebels again just with different names.
Holy shit, the moment she stopped acting, waved her hands and stood up was really relieving to me. Makes me feel a fragment of what I felt when I first saw this in the episode.
Brilliant actor. She was amazing in the role, and the character never deserved all the (misogynistic) hate it got. Wasn't even meant to be hated. Walt was literally the villain, but as a protagonist, you root for him. Then the good guys become the "problem."
@@donsullivan1256 a lot of it had undertones of misogyny, even if it wasn’t explicitly misogynistic. People acted like she was obligated to allow and defend Walt’s terrible, unspeakable actions because she was his wife, and she owed him care and affection. It’s a common type of argument used against many women facing serious issues in relationships, and it doesn’t help that most people making this argument against Skyler are male.
@@helenaperez4343 Well, the show wanted to produce that kind of feeling though. This episode was the one that turned many people, it showed that Walter really is the fucked up crazy guy who did everything just for himself and it also showed Walter weak for the first time in the show.
This actually made me cry all over again 😭 even with the cameras visible it’s hard not to feel the weight in Anna’s acting. I found Skyler’s character to be one of the most sensible so when I found out that people actually disliked her I didn’t really get it. I just recently finished BB and wow, props to the actors and everyone that made that show what it is. What an awesome show.
my heart is so broken by the fact that she got so much hate because people hated the character she played, all because viewers thought walt was still the good guy in the end.
The director was great. It is moving to see how he tries to comfort her. He truly cares about the actors and the actors give 100% back to him and to the show. Excellent team work
i started tearing up watching this video dude i genuinely had no clue actors actually started feeling like their character like genuinely having emotions of distress during distressing scenes . i always thought they could snap out of it when the recording was over . its also so heartwarming how they comforted her afterwards . love u Anna
I dislike her the first couple of episodes, I don't like how controlling she was (IMO) but, as the series progresses I started feel bad for her, I don't hate her even when I don't like her and understand why she acts as she did... Besides the cheating situation, she truly acts for the family goods, she truly care for the people around her, even to she never say that she did what she did for her family, if you watch closely you cam see that she didn't have that many options, she can denounce Walt and deal with the consequences or help him hoping that he die and the family don't suffer for the father actions. At the end of the day, her final destiny is more a consequence of Walter's actions that the choose of her own fate.
People hate her in the beginning...and human nature is like first expression is the last expression that's why they keep on hating her...but at the end i find it hard to believe people hated her in season 5 too
@@Fahadhassan555 like, really? Yeah, he killed a lot of people, put her family in danger, was partially guilty for the murder of Hank, the death of hundreds of people in the plane and the kidnapped of Jesse... But yeah, she deserves been hate, even when his husband also try to hook with her boss (but he was rejected, otherwise he would probably will cheated her). I don't particularly love the character, but think that in that situation (her husband is a drogue lord and, if she denounces him her entire family will be affected, and the divorce looks like something very problematic for her son and daughter) she's the one in the wrong and the one that deserve the hate is incredible ignorant
Seeing Walt drive away while smashing into the edge was so dramatic in the show. Seeing it filmed and how it's just a regular fender bender just amazes me how different it looks on the show. You don't want to even breathe during scenes like that. And Anna's acting is amazing.
anna is an amazing actor. that traumatizing golden voice is just beautiful. ive always sympathized w skyler, and she just continued to perfect the character over and over again.
Watching back through the episode, they didn't even use these takes in the episode. I kinda feel bad for Anna seeing this and knowing she put so much into this and it didn't even get used, although what did get used is much more subtle and fits just fine.
Anna's acting is just gold here, the unused shots are so heartbreaking. But the final cut is priceless, even tough they use a more "subtle" shot, Anna's frustrating silence and shaking hands are equaly harsh.
One of the difficulties of the job I guess, having to replicate emotion over and over again, and then have the scene edited down or even potentially removed altogether. I would guess that there are hundreds of thousands of hours of top quality acting on film from thousands of actors that we will never see
That will happen. What the actor might think is their best take, the director will go in the total opposite direction. It would be especially tough when the acting is so incredibly consistent across each rendition, to actually pick a definitive take and stick to it
The work that goes behind filming a single scene, the emotional and the mental preparation, is just unbelievable.... Hats off to all the people who gave their life in making this beautiful piece of art!
I think the reason why a lot of people myself included hated Skyler was their first impression of her. Walt in the beginning is passive, non-assertive, depressed and his relationship with Skyler in the beginning of the show feels like she is his Mom more than his Wife. Then Walt starts committing crimes, we get an insight into Walt's past and that he is a genius. Then Skyler comes in and tries to hold him back from being confident, assertive in his life. Even if we know logically that Skyler is right about objecting to him committing crimes, we think to ourselves "maybe she is a big reason why he isn't more confident in himself in general." And "he's got a death sentence, nothing left to lose, whose to say I wouldn't do the same if I knew I was dying and was a chemistry genius who felt undervalued?" In short I think the reason why many Men hated Skyler initially was that she reminded us of our Mother issues (if you have them). As the series progressed, that hatred faded of course. I realize it was a mistake to identify too strongly with Walt, because I wouldn't have made the same decisions he made in response to his circumstances. He choose to be evil because he missed the opportunity of a lifetime with Grey Matter (and perhaps Gretchen being his wife). But I understood where that desire to be evil came from because I identified with missed potential, issues in your relationship with your mother/Wife, etc. I really think it's unfair to assume that everyone who hated Skyler was just an idiot getting mad that she was getting in the way of the fun. I mean that's true in a small sense, but its a very superficial understanding of what is going on in my opinion
I agree. I hated Walt pretty much from the get-go, but I cried real tears for him during the talking pillow scene when he was honest about how he felt about doing chemo and Marie seemed to understand that way better than Skyler did. Skyler emotionally suffocated Walt which is the truly distasteful thing about her- not necessarily the cheating or smoking or the attempts to get in his way. But Walt had a monster sleeping inside him that could not entirely be blamed on Skyler not being emotionally attuned to him nor the fact that he was broke working thankless jobs nor even a terminal cancer diagnosis. Plenty of people are placed in situations where they feel utterly powerless but they still think twice before acting reckless or seeking revenge. I think even Walt himself couldn’t face the fact that what he was doing was never justified, at least not until the very last episode, when he admits to Skyler that he did it all for himself. That, to me, revealed the sociopathic nature of his behavior; Skyler was controlling but Walt is by far the bigger monster. The most emotionally healthy character in the entire series is actually Jesse imo.
@@NoisyMia Honestly I could support Walters's actions, in the beginning. I saw how all of his actions could help both him and his family for the first 4 seasons. Even the more drastic actions he took were to help either Jesse or his family. I stopped supporting it in Season 5 actually. When he has a choice to sell methylamine for 5 million dollars (something that would set his family for life). He chooses not to, I feel like that is when he stops purely doing it for the "good of his family" and when he starts doing it to be respected. Hell even after that point I could still "understand" his actions even if I don't support them. I understood why he would painfully melt a zip tie with loose wires to stop the methylamine from selling. His feelings of insignificance when he explains to Jesse the missed opportunities he had, and how he saw this as a way to become more respected and to become "the best at something" before he died. These are easy feelings to empathize with and the way he delivered those feelings made them even more understandable even if those actions are morally deplorable and for a selfish cause.
This scene was so sad, even tho most people hate skylar as a character watching a mother get her baby taken away from her crazy husband is so heartbreaking,
Well, I gotta say she gave it over perfectly because the take they went with has stuck with me even today. Being so horrified that you can’t scream. Simply amazing.
Never ever buy homes on T-bones. That is the worst property to buy. There will be endless cars shining headlights through your windows and you will go nuts. And sell meth. It is amazing how house selection can completely ruin your life.
Ive never been more stressed watching a tv show than I was in this moment. I’m a grown man and I was watching through my fingers when she and Walt were wresting with the knife.
I had no idea that this is what it took to shoot such an emotional scene , I thought actors just snapped in and out of it , this increases my respect for them even more now
Some actors can do that I think, but many of them go to a real place in their minds to give the right performance, and it can be incredibly draining. Acting is a very intense profession.
I’m honestly a MASSIVE Breaking Bad fan, and I gotta say, Anna you did a phenomenal job in this scene! In retrospect I’m so happy I got to experience your incredible acting capabilities, so from the bottom of my heart, thank you for this wonderful performance! ❤️
Anna Gunn did a fantastic job portraying this character. Gives me goosebumps even seeing the behind the scenes. It is truly shattering to watch her breathe life into this cosmically desperate, tragic moment, the lowest ebb of Skylar's entire arc.
So weird to see the whole “action” and watch her go into Skyler mode then stop but see how she still is effected by the persona she is portraying, that is how really good actors are I suppose, if they really get into it as they obviously must to be convincing then they can not just switch off those emotions when someone yells “cut” never really considered this, I wonder if all good actors are like this or if some really talented ones can just switch it off when cameras have stopped rolling!
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“Sorry Anna, it’s snowing, can you keep up the feeling of your entire life being torn apart before your eyes for a few hours?”
Thats why they get paid and pampered millions.
@@noahcalhoun3964 rightfully. Cause thats not sth everyone can do.
@@iracingtf5051 plenty of jobs not everyone can do and they dont make money like that, come on now
@@calebhope2390 yeah lol they get paid just because people idolise them and think of them as someone who is somehow greater then then. Bloody teachers are the ones who make these actors and they get paid dirt shit
@@iracingtf5051 the world fully functions without actors....its not a important job at all just like sports..they all get paid waaaaaaay to much for what they are worth
Imagine hating a fictional character so much that you send death-threats to the actress who played her. And then imagine the reason you hated the character was that she wasn't supportive enough of her murdering, lying, narcissistic ego-maniac criminal of a husband. Jesus, lol
Did that actually happen?
Wow
@@gabrielko2147 ye
@@gabrielko2147 Yes, apparently Anna Gunn received a ton of hate mail, including threats of violence. I hear this is sadly common for live action characters with an unhealthy anti-fanbase, many actors have gone through this, but the internet adds some fuel to that geek rage.
I really hate that kind of audience lol they put so much of their emotion into the movies and always complain about the character's behavior instead of understanding them.
Every single actor was phenomenal on this show. Not a single bad actor. Especially Anna here who showcased so much pain and emotion. Props to her.
The actress that played Holly sucked.
the nephew body gaurd guy cant act ngl
fax but fuck ted‼️
@@popahtrj todd?
@@Isaac-re2il yea
Incomprehensible to me how great actors can tap into this kind of emotion on command.
It's not on command, they certainly have/had traumas in their lives and use them as triggers
@@gbs3114 no
now you see why they are paid what they are paid
Anna Gunn being a mother herself, probably envisioned the same thing happening to her, and used that emotion. Its not a great place to be mentally, which is why actors should regularly see a therapist after roles like these. That, and having a great support system in their lives
@@gbs3114 Not all acting techniques use real experienced feelings, but some do
Here you can see why she finally won the Emmy she deserved
Even just watching this video I teard up cause her acting is so real and truthfully you can hear the shakiness in her voice, she's really going through what her Character is
@@LittleWhiskey like to see you try an genuinely breakdown in front of an audience
@@LittleWhiskey She won her second Emmy for this episode
@@LittleWhiskey did you just call Breaking Bad a film? Yet you have Peggy Hill as your avatar! What is going on here?! What planet are you commenting from and when will you visit Earth?
@@LittleWhiskeynow what in the hellll are you talkin bout? I tell ya, that boy ain't right. btw you still haven't told me when you're visiting!
Anna doesn’t get enough credit for how absolutely BRILLIANT she was In this show
Don’t worry she has emmy 🙏😉
lol this whole comments section is praising her
@@rebelfriend1818 I'm glad it is, but I don't remember her being as appreciated back when the show was running.
i don’t care about here i care about Jessie n Walt 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@oscarsalesgirl296 cringe
If we think about it, Skyler's story is one of the saddest in the Breaking Bad universe, in the last episode she is no longer the Skyler of the first chapter who was more optimistic and tried to look for the best for her family, in the end she lost it everything, his house, his social status and his family was completely damaged by Walt's decisions.
The only consolation is knowing that Skyler has some kind of a future, no matter how much she's suffered. She and her kids still have each other; maybe she and Marie will find a way forward as sisters too. Whereas Walt died alone in a Nazi meth lab, knowing his whole family (and whatever friends he ever had) hated his guts.
@@sidleyparkhermit6391 Walt died because he made immoral, egotistical decisions, you reap what you sow, he was lucky to get away with it by dying like he wanted from the start of the show. Walt's family was forced into it.
@@potet94 Preach!
@@potet94 He would have died from cancer pretty soon anyways.
Dude it was so sad seeing skyler smoking so much without emotion and being so monotone!
How could People hate skyler? She was so well written?
That’s why people hated her. Because she was so well written.
I dislike Skyler for a very simple reason: She made fundamental 180 turns on a whim whenever the plot needed her to, particularly in the early seasons. Going from concerned wife to serving divorce papers to protecting a meth cook using legal loopholes, turning from upstanding citizen and mom to money laundering accomplice who pays a cop's medical bills with drug money, plus the unnecessary drama (dealing with Ted, jumping in the pool etc.)... I could never shake the feeling that she was more of a plot device than a character even after she got more consistent in the last couple of seasons. Props to Anna Gunn though, she sells the character really well.
@@Cazammaf that makes no sense because there's was still no reason to hate her
@@bannedcommander2932 i completely disagree. her transition from being super uptight and legally moral to helping out with highly criminal activity is very slow and methodical.
what kind of mother feeds her own son veggie bacon?
She did such a good job on the whole show. It was such masterful writing and acting to have the audience hate her character, when she was the one that made the most sense.
Exactly
Yeah, honestly I never really hated Skyler, I could completely understand how she felt, to feel completely frustrated and powerless as her husband of however many years was becoming this completely different person in front of her and she tried to hold the family together while everything was falling apart because of what he was doing.
Made the most sense? In what way? I mean I know I am essentially asking that difficult question to the peanut gallery but how on earth did you get that? This seems to me like the response a "normal" person would have to this scenario. Which is probably what you are, just know, you are talking from that perspective, not the perspective of a person who has had to deal with hardship but a normal person whose biggest lost was probably their grandma when they were younger. I know the writing of this show is meant to convey the effects of a bad decision but I feel that people like you miss the deeper points of breaking bad, like pride, ego and to a certain degree, purpose.
All of that gets lost on morons like your who just see victims everywhere. It's like the sixth sense but with emotional psychopaths.
@@yourmomssaidicouldhavemyun2590 I honestly have no idea what point you are making. I understand you think I am stupid. But I don’t understand what point you think I am missing. I’m just going to assume that something I said reminded you of something that makes you mad, and you just had an argument with yourself.
When I say she made the most sense, I mean that her choices were the most in line with what a person would do to make the best of a given situation without causing more harm than good.
What the hell do you mean finding victims everywhere? I really can’t believe you typed that response to what I said. You are clearly having your own moment on my thread.
@@yesnickcarter totaly agree, I did not understand his response either
Don't get me wrong, Bryan had an incredible performance, but a lot of the other crew get overshadowed and they deserve more credit.
I feel like Skylar kinda got the short end of the stick as far as writing goes.
Dean Norris
What are you on? The whole fandom thinks everyone is amazing (because they are)
@@Zoroaster4 She won 2 Emmys she’s alright
What makes BB one of best shows ever is the fact that every single actors put their guts to it. No overshadowed actors, just perfect balance of talents
I love that immediately after the scene, a crewmember rushes to her to comfort her
Wow that acting takes a lot of emotion to portray
Her emotion reserves are low, she must recharge.
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@@FranciumBoron stfu
@@tiger1995grvr What did I do to you? XD
@@tiger1995grvr why so sensitive? Does the baby need a pacifier 👶 lol
The writing of Skyler's character had always amazed me because of how real it feels. I know that we're set up to dislike her because we're following Walt's story as the 'protagonist' and Sklyer makes it difficult for him to get away with things - but when you actually imagine yourself in her position as a partner to someone who is constantly lying to you, disappearing for days, and bringing you into a world of crime, you see just how real and reasonable most of her actions & reactions are. And I just love that she is unapologetically written as an intelligent character who can see through Walt's lies.
Her character is not intelligent.
@@anthonycameronnajera8471 that’s what i’m sayin
Watching her fall apart in the final season was pretty rough, it's insane people fail to empathize with her. Was she petty at times? Sure, but her husband was lying to her since the first episode. He was cooking and dealing METH, killing people, all while lying through his teeth. All while she had to deal with her pregnancy (AND childbirth), a son in high school (with a major disability) AND Walt having cancer. The only truly bad thing she ever did was smoke cigs while pregnant. What's even more insane is that she came around and started trying to help Walt, but he was greedy and always wanted more. He got over his head and got family killed, yet people expect her to be supportive? She had every right to leave him, the dude was a ticking time bomb like Mike said.
Yep, what you said if we were in her position would do the same actions...
Sometimes I don't understand people 😐
I'm surprised she didn't leave him sooner, she really stuck around till the end and put up with all of it and people are still saying she's "annoying" like guys why is this so hard for you to understand? If you were with someone for YEARS and you have children together and they suddenly start leading a life of crime that could endanger the entire household then how would you even sleep at night? Not to mention the entire concept of the person you were with is now suddenly a completely different person and not AT ALL the person you fell inlove with, how you gonna deal with that?
I think that with all that happened, people tend to forget that Skylar is left behind to deal with all of this with 2 kids, no house, crappy job. I'd love to see a '10 years later' movie or mini-series.
If his plan works out Flynn gets a few million from Walt but it is kinda telling how that is Walt's idea of kinda fixing this and how it is still about him feeling like "the man" providing for his family (this is why he does not want Elliot to use any of their money but just Walt's.
The traume and the destruction of the family can never be fixed.
if only they got the 80 million somehow
If I can recall it was mentioned in BCS that she received state help, but anyway that family will forever be scarred
no dude at the end Walt's money is still being funnelled to them through Gretchen and Elliot
For the people in the comments saying she’s just faking it, she’s just acting, that she’s dumb or crazy because she can’t snap out of it, she isn’t. I have personally done work of this emotional caliber at an acting school with like 10 other people in the class, where we had to “play with our cats” for 3 minutes or so, and then, immediately after, one by one, for 3 minutes, say our final goodbyes to them on their death bed at the vet in front of the entire class. The sheer raw power of that experience will haunt me until the day I die. Every single emotion in that room was real and you could FEEL it. THAT is what real acting looks like and feels like, and Anna Gunn did a phenomenal job in this scene.
I’m confused, did you actually have your cat with you? Was your cat dying? I don’t really understand what you’re describing.
@@abcdefzhiji think they mean they were told to act like they had a cat they loved very much, pretend they were playing with it briefly, only to then have to act out losing the same cat all as if it were real.
F cats.
One of the strongest scene in the show and such masterful acting. Seeing a mother crying and going crazy after her baby... It actually teared me up.
What's going on in this scene?
@@sealandland3959 omg 😆
This and when Hank got killed! I think were the two most unbelievable scenes and they both deserved Emmys for their acting
@@Hippie_chic_at_heart i thought she got an emmy for this or am i mistaken
@@Hippie_chic_at_heart Hank getting shot is my favourite(in terms of sorrow) scene of telveision history.
i know Skyler took alot of heat in Breaking bad, but when an actress annoys you, know they have done their job as an actor or actress.
Same with Micah in RDR2
Dawn in Buffy is another example.
well when a character annoys you the writers and actor/actress are doing a good job. If the actor themselves annoys you then thats different lol
Jannice in Sopranos.
@@rman52 Perfect example! :D
This scene changed my entire perspective on Skyler. It's not that I hated her before but I fell into how Walt felt about her, and here I saw her for what she was, a mother at the whim of her crazy egotistical husbands desires. Insane acting
That's how I felt
Hey lol
Walt does not change based on the way skyler reacted here lol. Weird comment
@@abcdefzhij you clearly did not understand my comment.
No I did it just didn't entirely make sense@@Toonksbell43
The acting was so good in those final episodes of Breaking Bad, I don’t see how anyone did their job without feeling emotionally traumatized after those scenes were shot.
They probably were. Do acting for almost a decade and there’s some moments that will stick with you forever.
what I heard Bryan Cranston sa about this, is that the bond of that group was so strong, that they felt safe, As Anna also puts it here.
Aaron Paul was my favourite here. He captured all of Jesse's last scenes as best as he possibly could have.
By the time I got to the finale I was so emotionally connected to the characters I actually cried when it finally ended. Took me 2 days to recover 😪
@@nicolaspablomerkin822 cii0o IO I
This moment was Anna's Crawl Space. For all the right reasons, ESPECIALLY her performance, Ozymandias is a supremely difficult episode to watch.
Couldnt agree more 💯👊
Really? It was alright for me
Ozymandias, to me, is the single best episode of television ever created. The emotional roller-coaster you were on, and the horror of what Walt was going to do to that baby, and the feeling of dread that only a parent could have. It was incredible. I wish I could forget it and watch it again.
@@labadaba5088 it’s literally one of the best episodes ever!
@@labadaba5088 yeah I don't get why people say some episodes of shows are hard to watch, maybe I'll shed a tear if it's sad but hard to watch ? It's a big word
Lord, Anna Gunn is such a breathtaking actor. I hate that people don't like Skyler because the show would not have even a fraction of it's emotional weight without her.
I hate that people don't realize that there is a right way and a wrong way to hate Skyler. A lot of people hate Skyler as a character, saying she's annoying and wishing she wasn't in the show. But the "right" way is: you're supposed to hate her because you as an audience member are falling for Walt's manipulation, his self-serving lies. Doing so is what makes the realization that you were rooting for a malipulative, murdering, psychopathic drug lord, and hating on his loving wife who by comparison was a saint, hit like a sack of bricks
*its (possessive)
it's = contraction of "it is" or "it has"
All contractions have apostrophes. Possessive pronouns never do.
@@alvallac2171 who cares bro this is the comment section on youtube
I get not like her character. I mean, I find Marie annoying, but Betsy Brandt is such an incredible actress for having such an awesome performance. No matter what, the actors don’t deserve to get the hate for what the characters do
@@alvallac2171🤓
The fact that this isn't even the final take is astonishing, who knows how many takes there must've been, and each of the actors put themselves through all the emotional rollercoaster over and over. Just brilliant.
These are the types of scenes I watch and realize that acting just isn’t for everybody. And I don’t even mean the obvious point that not everyone’s good enough to be an actor, but perhaps more importantly, it takes a special talent to bring yourself to such a place, emotionally, to properly portray the character, and then walk away from it and return to your own life, in this case, hopefully a much happier one. Credit to the crew for helping Anna through it all.
And equally for directors, they have to repeatedly watch the actors go into those vulnerable, dark mental states. I'm not sure that I'd be able to watch that over and over like them. You can say that's the script or the job, but I'd still probably feel a decent amount of guilt.
@AIKnowYou not only that but to each time criticize them and tell them where they messed up and do it again.
Woah her last performance gave me goosebumps.
Oh damn. It's you.
When’s your next video out bro
You gained a subscriber because I got the chills as I read it.
no way, same
Love your channel
This is so hard to watch. I literally cried watching her. You realize that she isn't just making facial expressions to make herself look heartbroken and terrified. She actually has to feel heartbroken and terrified. Wonderful job, Anna Gunn. You made one of the best scenes in television history.
actors can really manipulate emotions that's tough
no you didn't. stop trying to be quirky. She's a decent actress but you don't need to exaggerate your connection to her
@@m-linko decent?
@@m-linko Who are you to determine people's personal experiences? You're acting pretty quirky by thinking that you know the actions of strangers on the internet.
Amber Heard shld have watched this 😀😁😆😅🤣
She did such a good job of acting that I didn't even feel the second hand cringe I usually do when I watch a behind-the-scenes clip, it felt _so real._ Even knowing and seeing that there were cameras rolling and it was all supposed to be fake, there was something about it that seriously convinced me about it's legitimacy. Genuinely amazing.
Anna Gunn is a complete and absolute triumph in "Ozymandias". Masterful and marvelous acting.
her performance in this episode absolutely destroyed me. skylar's reaction felt incredibly real and it broke my heart
*Skyler's
@@alvallac2171 Skylar
Skylar and Waltuh
I think she is a terrible actor and i dislike her very much.
@@Slyngelmiswe get it you hate women
@@Slyngelmis???????
I love how Rian runs over to her after the take to make sure she’s ok.
@@SD-he3pp seems like you may have some personal issues with women buddy, maybe try men?
@@Jackster1 I can't watch when men treat women like goddess.
Don't know why.
@@SD-he3pp yeah I know I was just responding to the term simp more then you
@@SD-he3pp Or maybe you’re just reading into things for the sake of a narrative and didn’t realize that Rian Johnson is married.
@@SD-he3pp or just you know.. Kindness.
I’m really fascinated with the two contrasting ways we see her do this scene. The first one, if she’s off as if she’s exhausted and, while not necessarily hopeless, knows that this won’t do anything since Walt can’t hear her. The second one, is just raw panic and fear for, not her life, but the life of her child. Truly an amazing performance by Ms. Gunn.
Even watching this clip, with the strange angle, and the cameras all around, still had me crying.
Imagine if Walt Junior walked up to Skyler right after the shoot and said “is breakfast ready?” 💀🤣
Omg that's what I remember the most about him 😂 he's always looking for breakfast 😂
This is an underrated comment.
Little homie was hungry
With laughs tracks
That would just ruin the mood. They had to keep her (Anna) in that state of emotion in between takes...
"SkYLer CheATed oN WalT!"
Also Walt: Lies, manipulates, murders, builds a drug empire, steals their infant child.
@k ? He did half of those things before she even cheated
bro you forgot something
(possible trigger warning)
*Sexual Assault.*
Skyler: Cheated on Walt.
Some idiot in comment section: aLsO wALT: LiEs, mAnIpULaTeS, mUrDeRs, bUiLdS a DrUg eMpIrE, sTeALs tHeIr iNfAnT cHiLd.
@@KH0LRA what?
You know those cartel beheading videos? What you don’t know is that the guy holding the knife has an unfaithful wife 😳
The crew and director did such a good job comforting and taking care of her during this very emotionally taxing role/moment.
Ill admit, in the earlier seasons, skylar wasn’t my favorite, but as the show darkened I really started to love her character, and really understood a lot of the things she did. Anna played her beautifully and this scene was so incredible and emotional I get chills every single time
SO REAL. I found her hilarious especially in season one, but she's literally my favourite character from bb, no joke
As someone who acted throughout high school and college, it's weird to see someone this good at acting. Like you actually start to feel bad for her and feel her pain in a way. It was so good that she even started to convince herself it was real. There are few actors in this world that are able to get into character like that, maybe only a few each generation, and we should really appreciate that we get to see it.
And aron Paul hasn't taken any acting classes...Jesus Christ is that even possible
@@pryo2460 yes it is. some people naturally are good and have talent so it's easy to act already
Yeah. I stopped commenting for a while when I hear Anna Gunn screaming in the video. It felt so real. I almost tear up.
Yeah. I stopped commenting for a while when I hear Anna Gunn screaming in the video. It felt so real. I almost tear up.
Yeah. I stopped commenting for a while when I hear Anna Gunn screaming in the video. It felt so real. I almost tear up.
the most difficult scene is " THROWING THE PIZZA " with perfection
It actually wasn’t meant to go on the roof but it was very funny and original so they kept it in
Pizza time
The pizza on the roof wasn't planned and they just got it on first shot
@@henrysmthing289 False. That's a TikTok lie. It was all scripted and you can watch in one of the blooper reels on youtube where 'Walter' is practicing his throw before the actual shot.
@@Mazgoyoutube he wanted to throw the box of pizza, not just the pizza, look the scene and see the reaction of bryan cranston when he made it
I hate the internet, every time they talk about breaking bad they say “Walt was right” and “skylar was stupid”, but if you were in a relationship and you found out they were public enemy number one in america for drug crimes, please tell me how you can possibly justify that as an excuse to pay for your cancer bills - it’s like saying you should rob banks if you can pay for insulin for type 2 diabetes, I mean, I know that harsh but crime is not the answer, even if breaking bad is one of the best shows ever.
lol he was gonna die anyways
Skylar is the pinnacle representation of Walt's old life. The writers face us with the crazy dilemma of pitting the audience against her, since she becomes the resistance to the narrative. Walt built a safe, mundane cage of self defeat and loathing and she ultimately was the warden. Many people (especially men) can sympathize with Walt, in relating to his life before the business. An exhaustive list of failures and shattered dreams, are what sells this tragedy. Large in part because it's a self reflection for the many that are Walt but never ended up breaking bad. They cheer him on, as they shake their fist from inside their own little cages.
men go to therapy challenge
@@mtrancee What?
@@ldorganicsyou heard her
@@Fantallana No, I saw the comment, not “heard her”
@@ldorganics In case you still do not understand it basically means men need to take responsibility for once in their existance and go to therapy instead of expecting a woman to fix their entire life and all of their issues, and then turning into bitter hateful losers when that does not happen because women are people too, not free psychologists.
Vince actually secretly threatened to kill her daughter just before shooting so she would give the most emotional performance possible. Bravo Vince!
Edit: stop insulting @MB please, they made a mistake and misjudged the nature of my comment and then they apologized in a later reply! Stop being needlessly mean!
sorry...WHAT? How is that a "bravo"? That's terrible. Even if it isn't true that's an awful thing to say to an actor and actress for your own benefit.
@@nikinihachu5531 'twas a joke
@@nikinihachu5531no don’t worry it was sarcasm
i totally get it, it’s hard to read sarcasm online sometimes
@cow boi oh,, I apologize to the commenter then 😭 thank you for telling me
@@nikinihachu5531 LMFAO
I always liked her character. Can’t imagine being so ridiculous to send her death threats. She was brilliant in this series
Yess
I can't imagine a "normal" person would do that. If a person can't separate reality from fiction like that, then there's clearly something wrong with them. I disliked the character for all the wrong reasons, which actually makes her an incredible actress.
exactly, people dont realize that characters mirror real life sometimes, and anna gunn was just showing what the story of a drug lords wife looks like.
Did people send anna deaththreats? Cause first of all her character is well written and second of all if a character is bad its the producers fault like jeez
rewatch happy birthday scene
I want the scene when Todd kills Andrea and Jesse have to see...
Thats a tough one
@Jose Barraza I've never had nightmares because of horror movies or anything, I watch it all, but the scene where Andrea is killed in front of Jesse has given me many, many, many nightmares.
Made me feel sick, great acting
@Jose Barraza ye, i looked away on my second and third watch through
When they did Janes death Brain said he saw his own daughter and his crying was %100 legit. Supposedly it really messed with him bad for the rest of the day
This was the hardest scene in the whole show for me to watch. First time seeing it, my blood just ran cold. Anna is amazing in this show and truly doesn’t deserve anywhere near the amount of hate she gets. She more than earned that Emmy
she's genuinely such a good actor. poor skylar and poor anna
This is Rian Johnson directing by the way. Before everyone hated him for Last Jedi he led some of the best episodes on Breaking Bad. People tend to forget that.
last Jedi is awesome
And now he's done Knives Out. TLJ gets too much hate, and Rian Johnson has earned more respect than he's gotten.
Then the talent for directing is gone for him lol
Because unlike TLJ, Vince wasn't going to let RJ come in and fuck up his show. Disney on the other hand had literally no plans for a story and let RJ come in and fuck up the entire continuity of star wars, and ruin any chances for the sequel trilogy to be a cohesive narrative.
The last jedi still sucks
I honestly always felt like I was the only one in Skyler's corner... and this scene tore me to shreds. Anna Gunn is so bloody BRILLAINT!!!!!
*BRILLIANT (i before a)
@@alvallac2171 thank you for correcting a minor spelling mistake 8 months later.
Agreed, I was amazed by how many people hated her, but I have a feeling that they were, in fact, the Walt fans who had rather misogynistic expectations of her. It just seems like most of their complaints centered around her being “crazy” and such, dismissing the brutal reality that no one wants their spouse to be a fucking drug lord?
@@helenaEFFERVESCENC3 misogynistic? 😂 It’s because she cheated on Walter, got involved in the drug business when no one asked her, and spent his money with the guy she cheated on him with. She always had to be the victim in every in situation. Even her sister said that too. That’s why she was disliked.
@@jhonsmith5710 1. the cheating was done so that walter would divorce her or leave the house, she did this after she found out that walt is a drug dealer.
2. Got involved when no one asked her? Bro Walt needed her to launder his money and continue to cover for him in front of hank and marie. Its like saying saul got involved when no one asked him. Walt needed her and she needed to cover for her family. She realised walt isn't gonna change no matter what she does so she changed to protect the family.
3. She gave ted the money to protect walt and her family. Cause ted wasn't gonna money back to irs and if irs checks ted account, they will check all of the employess accounts too and that means they will get to skyler and walt too. And how would it look in front of irs that a fired chemistry teacher and a book keeper just bought a car wash that almost cost a million.
4. She is the victim here. None of this would have happened if walter had taken elliot and grechen's money and didn't started cooking meth. Everything would be fine. His cancer would have been cured, he would still be teacher, skyler and walter jr would have been happy and hank would be alive.
Watch the show before commenting idiotic takes like this
I never actually felt what Skyler felt like until I got a partner myself. Seeing the love of your life slowly change for the worse and endangers the life of your family all for pride, that's gotta be one of the worst feelings
I’m casually listening to youtube videos while playing videogames so I wasn’t even paying a lot of attention to the video but hearing Anna Gunn’s cries still gave me chills in the spine (again). What an incredible actress.
And after all that they ended up using take where she isnt screaming and just falls to her knees in silent terror because that's so much more powerful
Furry cringe
@@GeneralKenobi69420 Your header is filled with memes from 2005 and you're calling someone else cringe?
@@pedrocamara885 bro I was literally like 13 when I made that kek
@@GeneralKenobi69420 And you still haven't matured yet. SMH.
@@GeneralKenobi69420 stfu
This scene hit different now that I have an 11 month old baby girl. The pain in Skylers voice makes me tear up 😭 I can’t imagine anybody taking my child away from me
Same, I just rewatched the whole show and this time around I have a 21 month old. I couldn’t get past this scene without breaking down. She made it feel so real, like it was happening to me too. I needed my husband to hold me afterward
@@central_scrutinizr bro sounds like a fucking child holy shit, why would you admit to this on the internet lmao
@@central_scrutinizr same some could say it was my life
@@central_scrutinizr ...Your child is two.
@@Asia.Persuasia 21 months does not equal 2 years my guy
This was the only scene in the entire series where I actually cried tears...Anna really gave it her all, and made it so real for us.
Wooooow I’m crying with her! She’s such an amazing actress. I really felt those emotions
Imagine being the neighbor while they were filming this haha
I was thinking this, too ☺️ Let’s hope it was either a huge set or the neighbors were well-prepped.
My overly-concerned self would be calling for help 😇
The people living on that street, assuming that wasn't a set (I do not know), were probably used to it seeing as they had recorded there for years at that point and they were probably aware of when filming would take place.
@@josefinebliss2801🤓🤓
Que agradezcan porque estan viendo grátis
@@josefinebliss2801 Thats a large ass set then lol
It's insane. Not only in the fact that she has to be in the character's headspace, but also in the fact that she can return to "the zone" after the taking a break from the snow. She got in the character, get out and in again. Wow.
nah its nothing, anyone can do it
@@jake9854 Anyone except you
@@rikupikkarainen2108 yeah except me, but like u said anyone can do it! its nothing n overrated!
Most actors do that.
Anna Gunn is one of the best actresses ever period such talent
Acting a nervous-breakdown scene that long would give me a breakdown ironically. I think an actress from the shining said they felt broken after that
I'll never understand the hate Anna got. I got into BB few years after it finished and I very surprised to read about the hate she got during the time it aired. Both her and the character.
I can never understand people who hate actors because of the characters they play, she deserves praise for how incredible her performance was
seriously, some of these comments..
And that folks is how you win an Emmy
can't imagine what it's like being an actor who really gets into these roles. even after the scene is over you can't stop crying. you put yourself in this character's shoes and you can't help but feel for them because even if it's fake it's still realistic. i'm sure it feels like you're living a part of their life
they use tear sticks
@@Goner_Requiem Some actor can cry on command. I had a friend who have done theater and he could cry on command. He once put a nice example : You know when you have done something really embarassing? like in public? And when you think about it 2 years later you are still embarasses AF thinking about it. He told me he was doing the same for sadness, reviving sad memory or even imagining horrible situation. That's also why it can take a toll on the actor. Sometimes they have to imagine someone close dying or similar things and convince themself that it's real.
That's the reason why I don't act, even though I love it so much, because there's a professional threshold to actual real greatness that you will only overcome if you truly have the same feelings as the character (meaning you aren't acting anymore, you are being truthful to who you are on that moment), and this can be extremely dangerous depending on the role.
yeah, shes a brilliant actress, the emotions she brought felt so real, its like they say cut but shes gotten so into the roll she has no way to hold back the weight of skylers feelings
The take they used of her in the street is incredibly haunting. The look on her face, and the way she’s trembling is so upsetting
That roof looks naked without a pizza on it.
Imagine the pizza still being there after over a decade.
I started watching Breaking Bad last year. I heard so many times that Skyler is a horrible person. I remember that my friend told me that she's more annoying than Lori from TWD. And guess what? I didn't see that. I think Skyler is a sensible person. People hate her because she didn't let her husband ruin her and their children life. She was always trying to find a good solution - like when she asked Elliot&Gretchen for help or when she back to her job. What did you do if you were her? Pregnat woman, husband with cancer. She was totally alone with her pregnancy and she was strong.
People hate her strength and the fact she won’t be a submissive woman.
@@wintergirll i agree! idk what people were expecting but im glad they didn't write about a spinless woman
@@wintergirll idk weirdly on my second watch I still didn’t like her in season 1 and maybe 2 (probably due to the way they frame her then), but when she started to become a sorta femme fatale in seasons 3-4 I really grew to love her character
People hate her only that she cheated on walt and gave his money to ted
The only 2 bad things she did fr
@@alumokate515 she was literally smoking while pregnant, and she hid it too.
you know that last take teared me up, i didnt remember what exactly was happening here but her acting told me. i know exactly what she feels and what happened. amazing
Yes ladies and gentlemen, this is what it takes to make one of the best tv shows in history
Finishied the show for the first time and honestly, I don’t know how you could hate her acting skills because her role playing as Skyler White is just simply brilliant especially during these very intense scenes where it makes Skyler seem like a real person going through very real emotions as opposed to someone acting as that character.
Yeah, I don't hate Anna, I hate the character of Skyler. I feel this way *because* of her acting and how good it is -- along with the incredible writing in the show.
@@PenroseMusic Thats the idea. They wanted you to hate the character but then realize SHE is the ‘normal’ one.
@@PenroseMusic if you ended the show hating Skyler, I'm sorry to tell you but that's not because they wanted you to hate her, it's because you missed the whole point of Walt's character
Literally no one hates her acting skills, how tf are you people always defending that? People hate her character
@Ray Snider I hated skylar because the whole point of the show was kinda walt's manipulation. The show makes it seem like walt's drug business is understandable and should be supported by his wife, and it sort of manipulates the viewer into siding with walt.
What I love is that it’s not just Skyler screaming and crying against her child being taken, it’s everything she did herself to contribute to the situation snowballing to where it finally culminated in this episode. I think in her mind she’s screaming at Walt just as much as she’s screaming at her past self.
People can hate on Rian Johnson all they want. Sure he’s done things that should be criticized, but he’s also done some amazing work in his career. Ozymandias was right at the top in my opinion
When I read this comment I was like “what”
THAT Rian Johnson?? The Last Jedi Rian Johnson? I had to double take
@@AxeIRad yes indeed. For some time now myself and a small group of fellow cinephiles have been subscribing to the belief that no matter how good a director might be, when they work on a previously established franchise entry, it almost always turns out to be one of their worst films. This is usually due to studios stepping in and stepping on the directors toes with very specific demands and limitations on their creativity.
All that to say that yes. David Lynch should have never adapted Dune. Rian Johnson should have never made The Last Jedi. Most of his other films are objectively well executed.
watch brick a little hazzy but a great watch
@@tgirltouhou I mean best of sequels isn't really a gold star.
There's a new hope 2 electric bugaloo. The just wrong movie that is the last jedi. And the completely non sensical rise of Skywalker.
The last jedi is in a weird place for me. Because its my least favorite Star Wars movie without a doubt. But it's also probably the best written of the sequels.
The main issue I have with it is that it doesn't fit well in the universe. Like the chase makes no sense to me. My only thought was why doesn't half of Kylo's fleet just hyperspace jump in front of the resistance and pincer move.
The big one was Luke considering taking out Kylo even if he instantly decided not to. It doesn't fit. Especially when watching these movies in order. Going from redeem Vader Luke to kill Ben Luke feels wrong. Even if you say it's been 30 years, we as the audience weren't shown enough to justify the change in Luke.
So looking at it as a standalone movie. It's not that bad. But as a star Wars movie in the main series, I can't stand it.
Whatever, the sequels are done and they sucked. It was doomed from force awakens. Imagine being given creative control over the beast that is Star Wars. Then going with Empire vs Rebels again just with different names.
@@tgirltouhou I could not agree with this more
imagine the neighbors having stuff spoiled
Holy shit, the moment she stopped acting, waved her hands and stood up was really relieving to me. Makes me feel a fragment of what I felt when I first saw this in the episode.
Lol, the way she says "Please, please..." and then the scene cuts and she's "Well, whatever..". 😂😂
She was amazing as Skyler.
Yea, that's the beauty of acting hah
Brilliant actor. She was amazing in the role, and the character never deserved all the (misogynistic) hate it got. Wasn't even meant to be hated. Walt was literally the villain, but as a protagonist, you root for him. Then the good guys become the "problem."
None of it was misogynistic hate what are you on
@@donsullivan1256 a lot of it had undertones of misogyny, even if it wasn’t explicitly misogynistic. People acted like she was obligated to allow and defend Walt’s terrible, unspeakable actions because she was his wife, and she owed him care and affection. It’s a common type of argument used against many women facing serious issues in relationships, and it doesn’t help that most people making this argument against Skyler are male.
@@helenaperez4343 Well, the show wanted to produce that kind of feeling though. This episode was the one that turned many people, it showed that Walter really is the fucked up crazy guy who did everything just for himself and it also showed Walter weak for the first time in the show.
@@donsullivan1256 u must live under a rock bc most of it has clear hints of misogyny
@@hmmmmmm7899 if it was misogyny then people wouldn’t like Kim wexler in bcs. But she’s a favorite in the show.
This actually made me cry all over again 😭 even with the cameras visible it’s hard not to feel the weight in Anna’s acting. I found Skyler’s character to be one of the most sensible so when I found out that people actually disliked her I didn’t really get it. I just recently finished BB and wow, props to the actors and everyone that made that show what it is. What an awesome show.
my heart is so broken by the fact that she got so much hate because people hated the character she played, all because viewers thought walt was still the good guy in the end.
The director was great. It is moving to see how he tries to comfort her. He truly cares about the actors and the actors give 100% back to him and to the show.
Excellent team work
Rian Johnson is the GOAT
That’s right
@@SuperSalvaJorit’s crazy how he directed this masterpiece of an episode but he also directed the dogshit that is The Last Jedi
He certainly has range
@@AxeIRadand also Knives Out! Which is a wonderful movie
@@AxeIRad "Anna, it's ok, let the past die" etc. He was probably baffled by the idea that people actually care about a story.
I always forget that Rian Johnson directed some of the show’s greatest episodes.
So do most people lmao.
Now I wanna see Vince Gilligan do a Star Wars film
@Andrej he’s doing okay… he’s gonna make millions from the Knives Out sequels.
Rian Johnson is a great director and he has done some brilliant work. The Last Jedi was his one bad movie and now everyone only sees him for that.
@@RE4PER Thank god he made Knives Out and everyone forgets about the last jedi
Watching this performance from an outside perspective somehow made it more impactful to me, what a brilliant actress Anna is
i started tearing up watching this video dude i genuinely had no clue actors actually started feeling like their character like genuinely having emotions of distress during distressing scenes . i always thought they could snap out of it when the recording was over . its also so heartwarming how they comforted her afterwards . love u Anna
I always loved her character. I was surprised, after finishing the show, to find out that so many people hated her.
I dislike her the first couple of episodes, I don't like how controlling she was (IMO) but, as the series progresses I started feel bad for her, I don't hate her even when I don't like her and understand why she acts as she did... Besides the cheating situation, she truly acts for the family goods, she truly care for the people around her, even to she never say that she did what she did for her family, if you watch closely you cam see that she didn't have that many options, she can denounce Walt and deal with the consequences or help him hoping that he die and the family don't suffer for the father actions.
At the end of the day, her final destiny is more a consequence of Walter's actions that the choose of her own fate.
People hate her in the beginning...and human nature is like first expression is the last expression that's why they keep on hating her...but at the end i find it hard to believe people hated her in season 5 too
She deserves the hate
She shouldn't have cheated on Walt
@@Fahadhassan555 like, really? Yeah, he killed a lot of people, put her family in danger, was partially guilty for the murder of Hank, the death of hundreds of people in the plane and the kidnapped of Jesse... But yeah, she deserves been hate, even when his husband also try to hook with her boss (but he was rejected, otherwise he would probably will cheated her). I don't particularly love the character, but think that in that situation (her husband is a drogue lord and, if she denounces him her entire family will be affected, and the divorce looks like something very problematic for her son and daughter) she's the one in the wrong and the one that deserve the hate is incredible ignorant
@@Scarlet_Cameo I see your point but can't help hating her..
Guess what
Walt really is master manipulater.
Seeing Walt drive away while smashing into the edge was so dramatic in the show. Seeing it filmed and how it's just a regular fender bender just amazes me how different it looks on the show. You don't want to even breathe during scenes like that. And Anna's acting is amazing.
anna is an amazing actor. that traumatizing golden voice is just beautiful. ive always sympathized w skyler, and she just continued to perfect the character over and over again.
The juxtaposition of how i felt during those takes... Damn... Masterclass in acting from Anna there.
Wow that made me tear up
Exactly. That seems so real
Watching back through the episode, they didn't even use these takes in the episode. I kinda feel bad for Anna seeing this and knowing she put so much into this and it didn't even get used, although what did get used is much more subtle and fits just fine.
Anna's acting is just gold here, the unused shots are so heartbreaking. But the final cut is priceless, even tough they use a more "subtle" shot, Anna's frustrating silence and shaking hands are equaly harsh.
I liked the one they used
One of the difficulties of the job I guess, having to replicate emotion over and over again, and then have the scene edited down or even potentially removed altogether.
I would guess that there are hundreds of thousands of hours of top quality acting on film from thousands of actors that we will never see
That will happen. What the actor might think is their best take, the director will go in the total opposite direction. It would be especially tough when the acting is so incredibly consistent across each rendition, to actually pick a definitive take and stick to it
They did. It’s just slowed down and layered with the amazing score from Dave Porter.
The work that goes behind filming a single scene, the emotional and the mental preparation, is just unbelievable....
Hats off to all the people who gave their life in making this beautiful piece of art!
I think the reason why a lot of people myself included hated Skyler was their first impression of her. Walt in the beginning is passive, non-assertive, depressed and his relationship with Skyler in the beginning of the show feels like she is his Mom more than his Wife.
Then Walt starts committing crimes, we get an insight into Walt's past and that he is a genius. Then Skyler comes in and tries to hold him back from being confident, assertive in his life. Even if we know logically that Skyler is right about objecting to him committing crimes, we think to ourselves "maybe she is a big reason why he isn't more confident in himself in general." And "he's got a death sentence, nothing left to lose, whose to say I wouldn't do the same if I knew I was dying and was a chemistry genius who felt undervalued?"
In short I think the reason why many Men hated Skyler initially was that she reminded us of our Mother issues (if you have them). As the series progressed, that hatred faded of course. I realize it was a mistake to identify too strongly with Walt, because I wouldn't have made the same decisions he made in response to his circumstances. He choose to be evil because he missed the opportunity of a lifetime with Grey Matter (and perhaps Gretchen being his wife). But I understood where that desire to be evil came from because I identified with missed potential, issues in your relationship with your mother/Wife, etc.
I really think it's unfair to assume that everyone who hated Skyler was just an idiot getting mad that she was getting in the way of the fun. I mean that's true in a small sense, but its a very superficial understanding of what is going on in my opinion
I agree. I hated Walt pretty much from the get-go, but I cried real tears for him during the talking pillow scene when he was honest about how he felt about doing chemo and Marie seemed to understand that way better than Skyler did. Skyler emotionally suffocated Walt which is the truly distasteful thing about her- not necessarily the cheating or smoking or the attempts to get in his way. But Walt had a monster sleeping inside him that could not entirely be blamed on Skyler not being emotionally attuned to him nor the fact that he was broke working thankless jobs nor even a terminal cancer diagnosis. Plenty of people are placed in situations where they feel utterly powerless but they still think twice before acting reckless or seeking revenge. I think even Walt himself couldn’t face the fact that what he was doing was never justified, at least not until the very last episode, when he admits to Skyler that he did it all for himself. That, to me, revealed the sociopathic nature of his behavior; Skyler was controlling but Walt is by far the bigger monster.
The most emotionally healthy character in the entire series is actually Jesse imo.
I think you're spot on. She seemed so naggy at first, but then I was really empathetic because of everything that happened to her
real
@dj stinky this
@@NoisyMia Honestly I could support Walters's actions, in the beginning. I saw how all of his actions could help both him and his family for the first 4 seasons. Even the more drastic actions he took were to help either Jesse or his family.
I stopped supporting it in Season 5 actually. When he has a choice to sell methylamine for 5 million dollars (something that would set his family for life). He chooses not to, I feel like that is when he stops purely doing it for the "good of his family" and when he starts doing it to be respected.
Hell even after that point I could still "understand" his actions even if I don't support them. I understood why he would painfully melt a zip tie with loose wires to stop the methylamine from selling. His feelings of insignificance when he explains to Jesse the missed opportunities he had, and how he saw this as a way to become more respected and to become "the best at something" before he died. These are easy feelings to empathize with and the way he delivered those feelings made them even more understandable even if those actions are morally deplorable and for a selfish cause.
This series without Anna Gunn would be so empty
Yes without walter,jesse,hank,skyler and saul if some of this 5 dont be on the show, the show was never going to turn that good believe me
@@diogomarques9228 What about focusing on the actress that is displayed here? Or did you write this just to say it?
@@turboklanias9626 yes i talk about the actors and the characters
@@diogomarques9228 Okay and I am talking specifically about Skyler cause that's what this video is about.
@@turboklanias9626 Obviously the show wouldn't be the same without one of the MAIN characters...
Such a fantastic scene. Still can't believe people sent her death threats.
This scene was so sad, even tho most people hate skylar as a character watching a mother get her baby taken away from her crazy husband is so heartbreaking,
Well, I gotta say she gave it over perfectly because the take they went with has stuck with me even today. Being so horrified that you can’t scream. Simply amazing.
Ugh.. that second take was killer.. she was still so immersed in the emotional torment of the scene long after the take. Inspiring stuff.
Never ever buy homes on T-bones. That is the worst property to buy. There will be endless cars shining headlights through your windows and you will go nuts. And sell meth. It is amazing how house selection can completely ruin your life.
Ugh, this scene makes me cry every time. It’s just so horrifying and stressful! The acting is unbelievable
Ive never been more stressed watching a tv show than I was in this moment. I’m a grown man and I was watching through my fingers when she and Walt were wresting with the knife.
haha i laugh everytime i see this scene
Skyler is a bitch
Such an amazing job. It turned out to be such an intense scene and one of they few to make me cry.
I wish I could witness how such shows are produced. It's actually insane the amount of work required including labor.
I had no idea that this is what it took to shoot such an emotional scene , I thought actors just snapped in and out of it , this increases my respect for them even more now
Some actors can do that I think, but many of them go to a real place in their minds to give the right performance, and it can be incredibly draining. Acting is a very intense profession.
How the hell do actors get into this emotional state of mind? Respect.
Money if u act good and it’s a good show u get good money
@@Fluffymckno bro it's called doing something good with passion
@@Fluffymck This comment made no sense..
By doing their job maybe
aaron and anna are my favourite actors in this show. the amount of talent put on display here is nothing short of incredible.
I agree, I think Jesse was one of the best characters that has ever been played in TV history.
REAL MY FAVS TOO
I’m honestly a MASSIVE Breaking Bad fan, and I gotta say, Anna you did a phenomenal job in this scene!
In retrospect I’m so happy I got to experience your incredible acting capabilities, so from the bottom of my heart, thank you for this wonderful performance! ❤️
Anna Gunn did a fantastic job portraying this character. Gives me goosebumps even seeing the behind the scenes. It is truly shattering to watch her breathe life into this cosmically desperate, tragic moment, the lowest ebb of Skylar's entire arc.
So weird to see the whole “action” and watch her go into Skyler mode then stop but see how she still is effected by the persona she is portraying, that is how really good actors are I suppose, if they really get into it as they obviously must to be convincing then they can not just switch off those emotions when someone yells “cut” never really considered this, I wonder if all good actors are like this or if some really talented ones can just switch it off when cameras have stopped rolling!
Although i don't like the character but damn, anna really put a lot effort to protray her. Huge respect for Anna, great actress.
Anna is such an amazing actor