Better Call Saul heeft letterlijk alle kijkcijfer records voor een nieuwe TV Serie verbroken en lijkt ook deze spin-off van Breaking Bad een groot succes te worden. Nu had de website Collider een interview met Bob Odenkirk (Jimmy McGill) en Jonathan Banks (Mike Ehrmantraut) en daar van kan je hier onder alvast een klein stukje lezen.

So after all the talk about doing a spinoff and that it was a prequel about your character, were you surprised by all the surreal touches Better Call Saul has more so than Breaking Bad?

better-call-saul-bob-odenkirkBOB ODENKIRK: Yeah, it's a very unique show. I don't always believe Vince Gilligan when he says things like [doing a spot on Vince Gilligan impression] "I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know where I was going to go." He's very humble about his own inspiration and his own creative genius, but in this case I think he and Peter Gould really did discover the show as they went along and allowed themselves to range wherever they wanted in time and in emphasis - what character's story we're following, where it's going. I think they surprised themselves, and honestly, to psychoanalyze Vince a little, I think he likes to paint himself into a corner and then find a way out. His therapist would have to tell us whether that's true.

Look, he's got a character Saul Goodman, right? We know where he ends up, so we got to end up there in some way, right? Because we've already seen him already. When he was doing Brian Cranston, when he was doing Walter White, Mr. Chibbs to Scarface, it could have been any version of Scarface that he wanted, we'd never met that Walter White when we started. We've already met a certain kind of Saul Goodman, so he has to go there, so he's already in a corner because he's got to go to this one place that we've all seen. Anyhow, I think through the whole first season and in every episode, he was discovering this story - he and Peter, because they did it together - as they went. And it goes to crazy places. And I've heard from a producer that every episode feels different from the last one. There's a lot of variety in it.

JOHNATHAN BANKS: I don't know that Vince paints himself into a corner, or that Peter does, what I do know is their incredible dedication to try to make something good every time they write. They're stepping up the game. And these are two guys who have been friends a long, long time. It would be very easy for them to sit back on their laurels, but that better-call-saul-bob-odenkirk-peter-gould-vince-gilliganis not what's happening here. They up their game. They constantly up their game. Do you realize that they've been locked in that room, they've been in that room, they've been writing and writing and writing, and all the sudden it gets to come out. People ask them questions and away they go.