Walter White (Breaking Bad)

Walter White
Breaking Bad character

Walter White
First appearance "Pilot"
Last appearance "Felina"
Created by Vince Gilligan
Portrayed by Bryan Cranston
Information
Aliases
Occupation
Spouse(s) Skyler White
Significant other(s) Gretchen Schwartz (ex-girlfriend)
Children
Relatives

Walter "Walt" Hartwell White Sr. (also known by his clandestine alias Heisenberg) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Breaking Bad, portrayed by Bryan Cranston. A graduate of the California Institute of Technology, Walt was once a promising chemist who cofounded the company Gray Matter Technologies. He left Gray Matter abruptly, selling his shares for $5,000; soon afterward, the company made a fortune of roughly $2.16 billion, much of it from his research. Walt subsequently moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he became a high school chemistry teacher. The series Breaking Bad begins on Walter's fiftieth birthday, when he is diagnosed with Stage IIIA lung cancer. After this discovery, he resorts to manufacturing methamphetamine and drug dealing to ensure his family's financial security after his death. He is pulled deeper into the illicit drug trade, taking on more desperate and ruthless measures against those that would harm him to assure his own safety and well-being, and later adopts the alias "Heisenberg", which becomes recognizable as the kingpin figure in the local drug trade. Series creator Vince Gilligan has described his goal with Walter White as "turning Mr. Chips into Scarface", and deliberately made the character less sympathetic over the course of the series. Walt's evolution from mild-mannered school teacher and family man to ruthless criminal mastermind and murderer is the show's central focus.

Although AMC officials hesitated to cast Cranston due to his previous comedic role on Malcolm in the Middle, Gilligan cast him based on the actor's past performance in the X-Files episode "Drive", which Gilligan wrote. Cranston contributed greatly to the creation of his character, including Walt's back story, physical appearance, and personality traits. Both the Walter White character and Bryan Cranston's performance have received critical acclaim. Cranston won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, three of them being consecutive, becoming the second actor to do so since Bill Cosby for I Spy in the 1960s.[1][2] Following his fourth win, Cranston tied Dennis Franz for the most wins in the category's history. He is the first man to win a Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy, SAG, and TCA Award for his performance.

In the Spanish-language remake Metástasis, his character is renamed Walter Blanco (blanco being the Spanish translation of white) and is portrayed by Diego Trujillo.[3]

Character biography

Background and personality

Walter White was born on September 7, 1959, as seen on some of his personal papers. Walt studied chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where he conducted research on proton radiography that helped a team win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985.[4][5] After graduate school, Walt founded the firm Gray Matter Technologies with Elliott Schwartz (Adam Godley), his former classmate and close friend.[6] Around this time, Walt dated his lab assistant, Gretchen (Jessica Hecht). However, he abruptly left both Gretchen and Gray Matter Technologies, selling his financial interest in the company for $5,000.[5][7] Gretchen and Elliott later married and made a fortune, much of it from Walt's research.[7][8] Though they remain friendly, Walt secretly resents both Gretchen and Elliott for profiting from his work.[8][9]

At the age of 50, Walt works as a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, providing instruction to uninterested and disrespectful students.[4][10] The job pays so poorly that Walt is forced to take up another job at a local car wash to supplement his income, which proves to be particularly humiliating when he has to clean the cars of his own students.[11] Walt and his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) have a teenage son named Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte), who has cerebral palsy. Skyler is also pregnant with their second child, Holly, who is born at the end of season two.[12] Walt's other family includes Skyler's sister, Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt); her husband, Hank (Dean Norris), who is a DEA agent; and his mother, who is never seen.[13]

During the show

At the start of the first season, shortly after his fiftieth birthday, Walter learns he has inoperable lung cancer and will die in a few years. He keeps this a secret from his family, and instead looks to secure their well-being by producing and selling methamphetamine (meth), an illegal but lucrative drug. He works with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) to learn how to "cook" meth, and his chemistry background enables Walter to produce the purest meth Jesse has seen. As they make larger batches, Walter replaces one of the main chemicals that is regulated with unregulated ones including methylamine, tinting his meth blue and which becomes a signature of Walter's product. Walter eventually tells his family about his cancer and they urge him to undergo expensive chemotherapy using money offered by Gretchen and Elliot. Walter secretly refuses the money, using his drug earnings for the treatment costs. The chemotherapy causes him to lose his hair, and he shaves himself bald and adopts the name "Heisenberg", based on the theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg,[14] to interact with drug dealers.

In the second season, Hank starts actively investigating Heisenberg and the connection to the blue meth. Walter hires unscrupulous criminal attorney Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) to cover his involvement in the drug trade and launder his drug money. Walter and Jesse begin working with Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), a local drug kingpin that uses his franchise of fast-food restaurants as a front for the drug trade. Gus expresses concern with Jesse's unreliability, as he is now taking heroin with his girlfriend Jane Margolis (Krysten Ritter). Walter is forced to miss his daughter's birth to deliver Gus their product when Jesse is passed out from another heroin shot, and he refuses to give Jesse his share until Jane blackmails him, threatening to reveal his identity. Walter, after talking to a stranger at a bar, has a change to heart and goes back to apologize to Jesse, only to find he and Jane passed out. Walter inadvertently causes Jane to start to choke on her vomit, but does nothing to stop it and watches her die. Walter has Saul clear any connection Jesse has to Jane's death, and convinces Jesse to enter rehab. Meanwhile, with his cancer in remission, Walter undergoes an operation to remove the remaining cancerous growth, but inadvertently tips of Skyler to some of his activities. Though she does not discover his meth involvement, Skyler finds enough lies that she leaves with the children. While recovering at home, Walter is shocked when two passenger aircraft collide over Albuquerque. The accident was caused by air traffic controller Donald Margolis (John de Lancie), Jane's father and the stranger Walter had talked to, overcome by the loss of his daughter while on the job. Walter realizes he was indirectly responsible, and looks to try to get out of the meth business.

In season three, Walter reveals his meth production to Skyler, who demands a divorce for her silence, but ultimately comes to uneasily accept the situation and helps Walter in laundering the money. Walter's problems mount as he is put on temporarily leave from his teaching position, and he is forced to take an offer from Gus to produce meth in a hidden state-of-the-art laboratory under an industrial laundry. Walter initially works with Gale Boetticher (David Costabile), a skilled chemist that admires Walter's methods, but finds Gale lacks the practical know-how Jesse has gained, and convinces Gus to hire Jesse. Two hitman from the Mexican Cartel are ordered by a former drug kingpin Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis) to kill Walter for the death of his nephew Tuco (Raymond Cruz), but Gus instead protects Walter and directs the assassins to Hank, the one that actually killed Tuco. Hank survives the attack but is temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.

In the final episodes of season three, Jesse discovers that drug dealers in Gus' organization were responsible for the death of a friend, and that they had used Tomas (Angelo Martinez), the 11-year-old brother of his new girlfriend Andrea (Emily Rios), to commit the act. When Tomas later is discovered shot and killed, Jesse plots revenge but Walter intervenes by running over the dealers first, believing he is protected by Gus, and tells Jesse to hide. Gus's cleaner Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) drags Walter to the laboratory with intent to kill him unless he tells them where Jesse is hiding. Walter frantically calls Jesse and tells him to kill Gale, believing that this will protect them. Jesse shoots Gale but is captured and taken to the lab. Gus arrives and demonstrates neither of them are irreplaceable, as he has his associate Victor (Jeremiah Bitsui) make a batch of meth to Walter's purity, then slices Victor's neck open with a box cutter.

Within season four, the tension of working under tighter security causes a rift to grow between Walter and Jesse, and Gus uses the opportunity to bring Jesse to his side by having Mike train him. Hank, while still recovering, discovers evidence from Gale's murder linking him to Gus, and Walter tries to keep Hank off the trail. After ridding himself of the Cartel's influence in the area, Gus fires Walter and warns him that if Hank gets any closer, Gus will have Walter's family killed. Walter races to arrange for a relocation service but finds most of his drug money has been used by Skyler to pay off an IRS fine for her former boss Ted Beneke (Christopher Cousins) to avoid having their own lives investigated. After arranging for his family's safety under the DEA, Walter takes steps to kill Gus but he is far too protected. Walter goads Jesse into action by non-lethally poisoning Andrea's son Brock with Lily of the Valley, and making it look like Gus did it. Jesse agrees to help, and tells Walter Gus is vulnerable when he regularly visits Hector to gloat. Walter makes a deal with Hector, and the next time Gus visits, Hector detonates a pipe bomb Walter made, killing both himself and Gus. Walter and Jesse torch the hidden lab, and Walter tells Skyler he's won.

In the first half of season five, Walter, Jesse, and Mike eliminate their connection to the destroyed lab, and start a new meth production system with a corrupt pest control company, using residents' homes to cook meth while they are fumigated. They are aided by Lydia Rodarte-Quayle (Laura Fraser), a representative for the conglomerate that owned Gus' franchise. Lydia leaks them information on where to obtain the required chemicals and in return wants some of the meth to sell to the Czech Republic. A young boy sees them during one robbery, and Todd Alquist (Jesse Plemons), one of the pest control workers, heartlessly kills the boy, sickening Jesse and Mike. The two leave the business once they obtain their money from the last meth batch. Walter continues to make meth. When Walter learns Hank has connected the blue meth to Mike, he contacts Todd's uncle Jack (Michael Bowen), a criminal with ties to the Aryan Brotherhood, to kill nine of Mike's associates simultaneously to defer suspicion; Walter kills Mike personally. After a few months, Walter has earned more than $80 million from meth, and Skyler convinces him to stop.

Season 5's first half ends on a cliffhanger as Hank, while at a barbecue hosted by Walter, discovers a copy of Leaves of Grass give to Walter by Gale, and from its inscription determines Walter is Heisenberg. Hank confronts Walter, but Walter forces Hank to remain silent by crafting a faked confessional in which Hank states he is Heisenberg. Walter buries his money in seven barrels on the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation, and convinces Jesse to go into a relocation program. While waiting to be picked up, Jesse discovers Walter's involvement in poisoning Brock. Jesse approaches Hank and offers to help bring down Walter. With Hank's help, Jesse lures Walter to the reservation by claiming to have found his money. Walter makes arrangements with Jack and his men to kill Jesse, in exchange for promising to help teach Todd how to cook meth properly. At the reservation, Walter finds himself in Hank's trap and gives himself up, but then Jack and his men arrive and fire on the group. Hank and other agents are killed. Jack's men dig up Walter's money and bury the bodies. Jack then takes six of the seven barrels and abducts Jesse; Walter insults Jesse as he is taken that he had watched Jane die. On returning to town with his last barrel of money, Walter finds Skyler refuses to speak to him, and he tries to run off with Holly, but has a change of heart. Instead, he enters the relocation program and is sent to live in New Hampshire.

In the final episode of the series, some months later, Walter finds that Gretchen and Elliott have denounced his contributions to Gray Matter, and he is determined to return to Albuquerque to put things right. Once there, he leaves most of his remaining money with Gretchen and Elliott as a trust fund for Walt, Jr. He then sees to Skyler, apologizing for his actions and giving her the location of Hank's body as to clear her as a suspect in his death and her role in the meth business. He then arranges to see Lydia one last time, secretly poisoning her with ricin after learning where Jack has taken Jesse. Walter drives to Jack's compound and demands to see Jesse. When they bring Jesse, who has been chained up in a lab and forced to cook meth since his abduction, Walter dives atop him while simultaneously starting a remote machine gun mounted in his car that kills most of Jack's men. Walter and Jesse kill Jack and Todd. Walter unchains Jesse and urges Jesse to kill him, but Jesse can't bring himself to do so. With a knowing nod, Jesse races off and escapes the compound. Walter finds he had been shot, and as he bleeds to death, takes a moment to admire the lab equipment that Jesse had been using. The police arrive some time later to find Walter's corpse on the floor of the lab.

Development

You're going to see that underlying humanity, even when he's making the most devious, terrible decisions, and you need someone who has that humanity – deep down, bedrock humanity – so you say, watching this show, 'All right, I'll go for this ride. I don't like what he's doing, but I understand, and I'll go with it for as far as it goes.' If you don't have a guy who gives you that, despite the greatest acting chops in the world, the show is not going to succeed.

—Vince Gilligan, about Bryan Cranston[15]

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan cast Bryan Cranston for the role of Walter White based on having worked with him in a sixth season episode of the science fiction television series The X-Files, where Gilligan worked as a writer. Cranston played an anti-Semite with a terminal illness who took Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) hostage. Gilligan said the character had to be simultaneously loathsome and sympathetic, and that "Bryan alone was the only actor who could do that, who could pull off that trick. And it is a trick. I have no idea how he does it."[2][15] AMC officials were initially reluctant with the casting choice, having known Cranston only as the over-the-top character Hal on the comedy series Malcolm in the Middle and approached actors John Cusack and Matthew Broderick about the role.[16] When both actors declined, the executives were persuaded to cast Cranston after seeing his X-Files episode.[17]

Cranston contributed a great deal to the character's persona. When Gilligan left much of Walter's past unexplained during the development of the series, the actor wrote his own back story for the character. At the start of the show, Cranston gained 10 pounds to reflect the character's personal decline. He had the natural red highlights of his hair dyed a regular brown. He collaborated with costume designer Kathleen Detoro on a wardrobe of mostly neutral green and brown colors to make the character bland and unremarkable, and worked with makeup artist Frieda Valenzuela to create a mustache he described as "impotent" and like a "dead caterpillar". Cranston has also repeatedly identified elements in scripts where he disagreed with how the character was handled, and has gone so far as to call Gilligan directly when he could not work out disagreements with the episode screenwriters. Cranston has said he was inspired partially by his father for how Walt carries himself physically, which he described as "a little hunched over, never erect, [as if] the weight of the world is on this man's shoulders". In contrast to his character, Cranston has been described as extremely playful on set, with Aaron Paul describing him as "a kid trapped in a man's body".[2]

Gilligan has said it has been difficult to write for Walter White because the character is so dark and morally questionable: "I'm going to miss the show when it's over, but on some level, it'll be a relief to not have Walt in my head anymore."[2] As the series progressed, Gilligan and the writing staff of Breaking Bad made Walter more and more unsympathetic. Gilligan said: "He's going from being a protagonist to an antagonist. We want to make people question who they're pulling for, and why."[18] Cranston said by the fourth season: "I think Walt's figured out it's better to be a pursuer than the pursued. He's well on his way to badass."[19] Regarding White's fate in the series ending, Cranston foresaw it as "ugly [with no] redemption,"[20] although earlier, Gilligan divulged his plans to "end on a high note, in a way that will satisfy everyone."[21]

Reception

The character development of Walter White as well as Bryan Cranston's performance have received overwhelming critical acclaim.

Reviews

The web magazine Grantland quotes Andy Greenwald as analyzing Walter White differently from some others, including Vince Gilligan. Greenwald states:[22]

Since watching [the fifth season episode, "Confessions"], I've been thinking a lot about Walter White, the 'shadow' on his recent CAT scan, and the black cloud that has long since overtaken his heart. The closer we get to the end, the more Walt scrabbles around and lashes out like a rat when it's surrounded, the less I'm buying Vince Gilligan's whole 'Mr. Chips to Scarface' quote as an analogy for Walt's transformation. That's the route the character has taken these five seasons, sure, in terms of his changing context. But I think the most horrifying part of Breaking Bad may be that Walt, at his core, didn't really transform at all. It wasn't greed or generosity or cancer or fear that fueled this reign of death and destruction. It was resentment. Seething, burning resentment, the kind that forms not due to poor treatment but due to an innate knowledge that you, the aggrieved, are better than said treatment, better than everyone who has somehow gotten the better of you over the years. ... Every moment Walt spent in front of a classroom he was thinking about how beneath him it all was. He was a genius; he was meant to be a millionaire, not this castrated cross between stepping stone and doormat. When you got down to it, Walt desperately wanted to teach every one ... a lesson, and I don't mean in the style of Mr. Chips.

Similarly, Scott Meslow wrote in The Atlantic that Walt's capacity for villainy was present well before the series even began, and that cancer was merely the catalyst: "all the elements that have since turned him into a monster were already in place."[23]

New York magazine writer Emma Rosenblum said Bryan Cranston "pulls off the unassuming White with flawless subtlety: a waxy pallor, a slump of the shoulders, and a sense of doom that is palpable".[17] The Hollywood Reporter writer Tim Goodman praised as courageous Vince Gilligan's decision to transform Walter White into an unsympathetic character: "You don't take your main character and make him unlikable. You just don't. Nobody does that. Nobody has ever really done that to this extent."[24] Robert Bianco of USA Today called Walt "one of the greatest dramatic creations ever to grace our TV screens."[25] In 2011, the New York Times named Cranston as one of the "eight actors who turn television into art".[26] Following the show's conclusion, Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins wrote a fan letter to Cranston, wherein he praised the show and called Cranston's performance as Walter White the best acting he had ever seen.[27]

Awards

Bryan Cranston accepting the Peabody Award for Breaking Bad at the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards

Cranston has received various awards and nominations for his performance as Walter White. For the first three seasons, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series thrice consecutively, becoming the first actor to accomplish this feat since Bill Cosby for I Spy. Cranston was also nominated in 2012 and 2013 for season four and the first half of season five, but lost out to Damian Lewis for Homeland and Jeff Daniels for The Newsroom respectively.[28] He also won his fourth Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards

At the annual Golden Globe Awards, Cranston has been nominated for the Best Actor – Television Series Drama accolade on four occasions for his role in Breaking Bad, in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, winning in 2014 for the second half of season five. At the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Cranston has been nominated for Male Actor in a Drama Series five times, in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, winning in 2013 and 2014, for both parts of season five. Also, Cranston has been nominated with the rest of the cast for Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, in 2012, 2013 and 2014, winning in 2014.[28]

In addition, Cranston has won the Satellite Award for Best Actor: Drama Series three times consecutively, in 2008, 2009 and 2010, for seasons one, two and three, and has been nominated in 2011, 2012 and 2014 for seasons four and five. He won the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama in 2009, and was nominated in 2010, 2012 and 2013; was nominated twice for the Prism Award for Best Performance in a Drama Series Multi-Episode Storyline; won two Saturn Awards for Best Actor on Television in 2012 and 2013 (tying with Kevin Bacon for The Following on the latter occasion), and was nominated in 2009, 2010 and 2011; and won the Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series in 2013.[28]

Real-life impact

Cult following

Over time Walter White has developed a cult following, spawning fan websites like "Heisenberg Labs", "Walt's Wardrobe", and "Save Walter White", which is an exact replica of the website Walter White's son creates in the series to raise money to pay for his father's cancer treatments.[29] A platform style Breaking Bad video game has been created as a tribute to Walter White. In 2015, series creator Vince Gilligan publicly requested fans of the series to stop reenacting a scene in which Walter angrily throws a pizza on his roof after his wife refuses to let him inside; this came after complaints from the home's real-life owner.[30][31] Cranston reprised his role of the character in a commercial for Esurance which aired during Super Bowl XLIX, one week before the premiere of Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul.[32]

Obituary and funeral

A Breaking Bad fan group placed a paid obituary for Walter White in the Albuquerque Journal, October 4, 2013.[33] On October 19, 2013, a mock funeral procession (including a hearse and a replica of White's meth lab RV) and service for the character was held at Albuquerque's Sunset Memorial Park cemetery. A headstone was placed with a photo of Cranston as White. While some residents were unhappy with the makeshift gravesite for closure with the show, tickets for the event raised nearly $17,000 for a local charity called Healthcare for the Homeless.[34][35]

Alternative theory concerning death

Many fans of Breaking Bad, including actor Norm Macdonald and New York Magazine writer Emily Nussbaum,[36] proposed a theory, in which most of the series finale happened in Walt's mind, and he really died in the stolen Volvo in the beginning of it.[37] While Nussbaum merely stated that it would be her preferred ending,[38] MacDonald emphasized the seemingly unreal scenarios of Walt's final day, as well as what he deemed as unreliable acting.[39] However, series creator Vince Gilligan debunked this theory, explaining that Walt could not possibly have known several things that happened, like Jesse being held in captivity by Jack's gang instead of being murdered by them, or that Todd had begun taking meetings with Lydia regarding the meth trade.[40]

In popular culture

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