‘Better Call Saul’ Creators Tease “It Would Be A Damn Shame” If Bryan Cranston & Aaron Paul Didn’t Appear

Better Call Saul is returning for its sixth and final season. The season will include some familiar faces from Breaking Bad and is expected to be released later this month.

“Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” fans alike have been pondering if we’d ever see Bryan Cranston’s Walter White and Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman make an appearance on the prequel/spinoff series. Well, the creative team and network have finally given a concrete answer to that question.

Better Call Saul’s final season, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad, will see the return of iconic characters Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).

Bob Odenkirk and the team behind Better Call Saul opened up about their show's series finale at PaleyFest in Los Angeles on Saturday.The actor, 59, opened up about what he wanted to see from his character during the show's final season.'I always wanted the character to grow and I campaigned for that over the years,' he told The Hollywood Reporter. 'My argument to Vince Gilligan was that sometimes people do learn the right lessons from trauma and challenge in life.

Bob Odenkirk is opening up about the end of Better Call Saul.

He gave choice fans a sneak peak at the upcoming premiere of the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul.On Saturday Bob Odenkirk and the cast of his hit crime drama series were on hand for the39th annual PaleyFest at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.Along with a viewing of the premiere, which is set to drop on AMC April 18, fans and media members were able to hear first-hand what viewers can expect from the upcoming two-part final season during a conversation and Q-and-A panel session. Premiere night: Bob Odenkirk attended the 39th Annual PaleyFest screening of the Better Call Saul Final Season Celebration at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Saturday, April 9, 2022Before all the festivities went down inside the Dolby Theatre, which is situated along Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, the cast and creators hit the red carpet for a photo op.Odenkirk, 59, kept it casual–cool in the fashion department in black jeans with a black suede jacket over a matching t-shirt.

Bob Odenkirk couldn't contain his excitement in a tweet on Saturday.The actor, 59, quoted the official Better Call Saul account which revealed that Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston would make an appearance in the show's sixth and final season.'They're coming back. #BetterCallSaul,' the account tweeted out with a photo of the dynamic duo sitting in the front seat of the car.

It’s official – Walter White and Jesse Pinkman are coming back!

During today’s Deadline Contenders panel, Better Call Saul star Jonathan Banks jokingly took a swipe at Bryan Cranston about him potentially reprising his role as Walter White.

Ethan Shanfeld We haven’t seen the last of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.After dancing around the question on Thursday’s red carpet premiere, “Better Call Saul” co-creator Peter Gould has now officially confirmed that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will guest star in the final season of the “Breaking Bad” spinoff.Gould announced the news Saturday at PaleyFest LA on a “Better Call Saul” panel moderated by Variety television editor Michael Schneider, though he was tight-lipped on exactly when Cranston and Paul will show up or in what capacity. But as he told Variety on Thursday, “These two worlds cross over in a way that you haven’t seen before, that’s for sure.”At Thursday’s premiere, co-creator Vince Gilligan told Variety, “It would be a damn shame if the show ended without [Cranston and Paul] appearing, would it not?” Bob Odenkirk, who plays the series’ titular crooked lawyer, also hinted at Cranston and Paul’s appearance, telling Variety that Season 6 features “some wonderful new characters… your brain is gonna explode when you see them.”Odenkirk continued, “I personally feel that the two shows — ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’ — are entwined even more than ever in the final season.

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“Everyone evolves, I don’t evolve,” snarked Jonathan Banks today at Deadline’s Contenders TV about his character, ex-cop Mike Ehrmantraut between Breaking Bad and spinoff Better Call Saul. 

Aaron Paul took Bob Odenkirk by surprise at the final season premiere of Better Call Saul last night!

After playing the gravitas of moral-shifting, slick attorney Saul Goodman on AMC’s 39-Emmy nominated Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk, is –to use a line from one of his Mr. Show sketches ready “to blow up the moon” as he pivots back to his comedy roots.

Emily Longeretta Bob Odenkirk never liked Saul Goodman — but Jimmy McGill has grown on him.Ahead of the final season of “Better Call Saul,” the “Breaking Bad” vet opened up to Variety about wrapping up the character 13 years after it was introduced to the world. In short: his feelings are complicated.“I’m not running from the guy. I think sometimes people do that,” Odenkirk says, mentioning that his former co-star Bryan Cranston was ready to say goodbye to Walter White.

There will be no more making meth in the middle of the desert in your underwear, at least for now.

Bob Odenkirk was front and center on the red carpet at Thursday's premiere of Better Call Saul in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Legion Theater for the AMC show's sixth and last season.Odenkirk, 59, looked dapper in a navy blue suit with a black button-up top and black shoes.The veteran actor, who plays Jimmy McGill on the series and Saul Goodman on its predecessor Breaking Bad, had his hair neatly combed back as he posed with co-stars at the debut for the show's final season. The latest:Bob Odenkirk, 59, was front and center on the red carpet at Thursday's premiere of Better Call Saul in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Legion Theater for the AMC show's sixth and last seasonOdenkirk is less than a year removed from suffering a heart attack last July as he was filming Better Call Saul in New Mexico, and was subsequently rushed to a nearby hospital.In February, Odenkirk spoke with The New York Times about the harrowing incident, recalling how it happened after an all-day shoot on the AMC series.

Ethan Shanfeld The question of whether Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul would appear in “Better Call Saul” has loomed over the prequel series ever since its inception. And while co-creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould have remained coy about the possibility of that crossover, the masterminds behind “Better Call Saul” told Variety at the final season premiere that the worlds do, indeed, crossover.As Gilligan said, “It would be a damn shame if the show ended without [Cranston and Paul] appearing, would it not?” He later added, “You heard it here first.”With its sixth and final season premiering on April 18, “Better Call Saul” takes place before the events of “Breaking Bad.” But as the hit AMC spinoff series nears the timeline of its predecessor, Gould says, “If it’s ever going to happen, this is when these two shows start crossing over.” While Cranston and Paul played Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, respectively, it’s unclear whether they will reprise the same roles in “Better Call Saul.” As Gould said coyly, “These two worlds crossover in a way that you haven’t seen before, that’s for sure.”Cranston and Paul previously reprised the roles of Walt and Jesse for 2019’s “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Film,” which followed Jesse after escaping enslavement from Todd (Jesse Plemons) and Uncle Jack’s (Michael Bowen) gang.While “Breaking Bad’s” Giancarlo Esposito and Jonathan Banks also star in its prequel series as Gustavo Fring and Mike Ehrmantraut, many other characters from the Vince Gilligan Cinematic Universe have also made their way into “Better Call Saul,” including Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis), Don Eladio (Luis Politti) and the Salamanca twins (Luis and Daniel Moncada).

After six successful, critically acclaimed, and Emmy-winnings seasons, comedic actor Bob Odenkirk is wrapping up his hit spinoff series “Better Call Saul,” based on the “Breaking Bad” series that it spun off from. His relationship with AMC has been mutually beneficial, giving him leading man status and charging the ratings, and now the two of them are looking to reunite on a new show.

Family day! Aaron Paul and his wife Lauren Parsekian were seen after grabbing lunch in Los Feliz on Wednesday April 6. The Breaking Bad actor was seen with his newborn child’s car seat in hand as they left the restaurant together. As Aaron, 42, carried their baby, Lauren, 35, was clearly a doting mother as she looked down to keep an eye on their newborn. It looked like a super sweet day for the family.