The series had 5 seasons and for critics it was one of the best of its genre. What is it about?
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The actor Raymond Cruzwho played Tuco Salamanca in the successful series ‘Breaking Bad’, recalled that the project was close to being canceled in the first two seasons due to low viewership.
Cruz is one of the artists guests at Comic Con Costa Ricawhich will begin this Friday with a concert, but whose bulk of activities will take place on Saturday and Sunday at the country’s Convention Center, where the organizers expect the presence of thousands of fans of film, television, comics and the anime.
“The script was great but ‘Breaking Bad’ wasn’t a hit when it aired. In its first two seasons it only had around a million viewers and it was always on the verge of being canceled, but at the end of the series there were 12 million viewers every week,” Cruz said at the Comic Con Costa Rica press conference.
Raymond Cruz in Breaking Bad
Cruz added that: “it was not until the third season “when people started to really get into it and the show took off, when everyone started watching the episodes every week and realized the production, the script and the characters and that it was a great anti-hero story.”
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The successful series
‘Breaking Bad’, created and produced by Vince Gilligantells the story of American high school chemistry teacher Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, who is diagnosed with cancer and enters the world of synthetic drugs to leave money for his family when he dies.
The teacher joins in that mission with Jesse Pinkmana former student of his who is played by actor Aaron Paul, and little by little they rise in the world of drug trafficking and organized crime.
The Serie extended for 5 seasons and many classify it as one of the best in history.
Breaking Bad series, Reuters
Raymond Cruz recalled that “the script was really good”who was captivated by the story of the antihero and believed that it was a “dark comedy” in which he was willing to participate to “do something he had not done before”
“When Vince Gilligan He offered me the role, I said yes.but he couldn’t change anything that I did, and he agreed,” Cruz said about his drug dealer character who had a relatively short participation in Breaking Bad, but later had a greater presence in Better Call Saul, the prequel to Breaking Bad.
