Walter White may not have been the best husband, but Bryan Cranston will furiously defend Anna Gunn until his dying breath. While doing a Q&A with his Malcolm in the Middle costar Frankie Muniz for Hot Ones Versus on Tuesday, April...
I think the things with Skyler is that she clocked in as unlikeable and self centered too early on to ever be likeable or to garner sympathy so that, even when she was in a sympathetic position later, it wasn’t enough to get anyone on her side.
Early on, when he was going through cancer and struggling, ‘we’ knew what he was up to, but from the perspective she was provided she was portrayed as unreasonably bitchy and self centered.
By the time it would have made sense for the audience to turn on Walt, it was far easier to look for a more sympathetic character and leave her hanging in the wind. It’s not that anyone thought Walt was the good guy compared to her, it’s just that she wasn’t in the running, she was always just going to be an antagonist.
I think the things with Skyler is that she clocked in as unlikeable and self centered too early on to ever be likeable or to garner sympathy so that, even when she was in a sympathetic position later, it wasn’t enough to get anyone on her side.
Early on, when he was going through cancer and struggling, ‘we’ knew what he was up to, but from the perspective she was provided she was portrayed as unreasonably bitchy and self centered.
By the time it would have made sense for the audience to turn on Walt, it was far easier to look for a more sympathetic character and leave her hanging in the wind. It’s not that anyone thought Walt was the good guy compared to her, it’s just that she wasn’t in the running, she was always just going to be an antagonist.