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It was an incredible episode, beautifully written and directed by Gordon Smith, full of symbolism. The episode starts with Nacho on the run from the Salamanca twins, and he submerges himself in an oil tanker to hide from them.
This was something he believed in and he was doing it with all his heart.
It was a celebration of life, it was Nacho telling himself and the world not to cry for him. So Nacho didn’t lose the appetite for life, if anything he was filled with love and life at that point because he knew he was doing the right thing. It wasn’t about sustenance at this time, but it was about a man who was going out with a lot of love for life. It was really important for me that he use a fork and knife and that he put salt and pepper on his food. Did you have any say on what Nacho would eat? It’s in that moment that Nacho knows that he’s going to walk back into hell and sacrifice himself for the love of his father.īefore Mike (Jonathan Banks) roughs him up, we see Nacho get a final meal before he faces the Salamancas. But he’s staring the sunset in the eyes, and he’s looking back at his father and saying “Come with me.” And his father says no. What was it like shooting that final emotional phone call between Nacho and his father? The ultimate act that defines the character is the act of sacrifice, and not anger, but love. The image of Nacho is the image of sacrifice, true love and bravery. But they’re already dead, they just don’t know it yet. There’s an ominous thing to this scene, where these are all dead men walking, watching the first man die. We know that all of the characters in that final scene, like Gus, Hector and the Salamanca twins, live to see another day in “Breaking Bad,” but was there a reason why Nacho didn’t take anybody else down with him?Įvery single one of them is dead, if you think about it. The crew had Nacho shirts on and tear tattoos, and I couldn’t believe how much this character meant to so many people. There were all these weird things that were happening. When I came home, lightning struck the tree in front of my house and fell on my driveway I couldn’t get into the house.
The day we shot that scene, when we turned the cameras on Nacho, a huge sandstorm hit immediately and we had to run back home before our cars got stuck in the mud. What was it like on the day you shot your death scene? I immediately felt a tremendous amount of gratitude and was dialed in on making sure that this character sacrificed himself for the virtue and morality that he aspired to. Peter, Vince and Melissa called me and they told me it’s going to be operatic, larger than life and it was going to break the internet. I found out the winter before we started shooting.
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