That chilling call where Walt tears into Skyler while secretly trying to clear her of blame was a nightmare to film. Bryan Cranston and Anna Gunn weren’t even in the same place – they had to act off recorded audio instead of each other, while still playing all the layered emotions: rage, heartbreak, and a twisted kind of love.

Aaron Paul’s screaming, sand-kicking collapse in the desert looks painful because it was. Shot in scorching New Mexico heat, he threw himself to the ground over and over until he was scraped, exhausted, and emotionally wrecked.
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