Along with the other changes in his manner and his life, as Walter White devolved into Heisenberg, Bryan Cranston also literally changed the way he carried himself.
With his increasing confidence and growing criminal resume comes an adjustment to his character’s posture. In an interview for “New Mexico in Focus,” Cranston told host Matt Grubs that he very purposefully began to carry himself differently as his iconic character loses touch with the mild-mannered chemistry teacher we meet in the “Breaking Bad” pilot when he gets his diagnosis of terminal lung cancer.
“I wanted Walter to feel, like, the weight of the world,” Cranston said. “So his posture was kind of round-shouldered, and his head was kind of bowed from the weight of this tension and depression that he was carrying with him … He is more upright now. When he took on this persona of Heisenberg, where he is this desperate desperado, his shoulders are back, his posture is much greater, because he felt more comfortable and more in control and powerful and I think I just wanted to have that manifest in his stateliness.”
It’s a very subtle change, but when combined with all the other changes Cranston and the showrunners make to the character, it helps illustrate the purposeful transformation of an innocent family man to an international drug kingpin and mass murderer.
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