Breaking Bad followers needs to be additional excited for the Super Bowl this 12 months because of PopCorners. Bryan Cranston (Walt Whitman), Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman), and Raymond Cruz (Tuco Salamanca) all reunited for PopCorners’ debut Super Bowl LVII industrial (watch beneath) that can air in the course of the large sport on February 12, nearly ten years after the hit AMC sequence completed airing. Raymond, 61, spoke to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY and mentioned it was “surreal” to reprise his position as Tuco, the enduring drug kingpin. But Raymond additionally admitted that he’s uncertain if he’d play Tuco ever once more in a attainable future Breaking Bad-related undertaking.
“It’s a difficult task. I say it with trepidation, because it wasn’t easy to do the first time,” Raymond defined. “It wasn’t easy to reprise it on Better Call Saul. And it definitely was not easy to do in the PopCorners ad,” he added. “It’s so taxing on you. It’s so high energy. Even when Tuco’s not saying anything, it’s bubbling underneath.”
The actor admitted that he doesn’t “miss anything” about enjoying Tuco, who met his demise in season 2 of Breaking Bad, however popped up once more within the prequel sequence Better Call Saul starring Bob Odenkirk. “It’s so difficult to do,” Raymond additionally mentioned in regards to the position.
Raymond additionally opened up about how he received again into the mindset of Tuco to movie the industrial. “Luckily I write everything down. So whenever I build a character I write everything down. So I had my notes,” he mentioned. “You have to do all the work again. I’m not like Tuco. So I had to go back and find exactly where I was at. How I built it, you know, mentally, physically, emotionally, where the character lives. And then you have to recreate that. And to have this platform to do it was amazing.”
Raymond informed HL how thrilled he was to play Raymond once more, and reunite with two of his former co-stars, for the PopCorners Super Bowl industrial. “It was amazing to have PopCorners contact you that they want to recreate the whole Breaking Bad environment and bring these iconic characters together once again,” he informed HL. “To back in the same environment with the same RV that they used in the show, and to be wearing the same wardrobe, it all felt very surreal. It’s almost like it never happened. It’s like a dream.”
Raymond mentioned that filming the industrial with Bryan and Aaron “felt as if we stepped back into the Breaking Bad universe. It felt as if we had never left, even though all this time has passed.” Raymond additionally mentioned Breaking Bad followers will “get a huge laugh” out of the industrial, because of PopCorners’ “twist” on it. “They’re gonna love it,” he mentioned.