Outrageously bad Emmy fashion mistakes - Anna Gunn has snared her first Emmy nomination for her stellar work on ‘Breaking Bad’ as the tough-as-nails foil to TV’s most compelling anti-hero, Walter White. The actress talks about the hand-job scene that won her the part.
Anna Gunn shone on David Milch’s Deadwood and has many of the traits Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan was looking for in the wife of the most deranged chemistry teacher that has lived on television. But when he saw how much Sony executives laughed as Skyler White pleasured her husband while surfing eBay, Gilligan knew he’d found Mrs. White.
“On the surface, the show doesn’t seem like it should be very funny,” Gilligan said. “But, in fact, we try to get as much humor as we can into Breaking Bad, and Anna has a sense of comic timing and knows how to get the most out of a humorous moment instead of inadvertently squashing it. That is indeed an important quality for the woman married to Walter White.”
Gunn, who is nominated for her first Emmy for her work in the fourth season of the AMC series, almost didn’t try out for the career-altering role. She had just had her second child, and couldn’t knock a cold, but her good friend, Sharon Bialy, one of the show’s two casting directors, persevered until Gunn read the script and agreed to audition. As part of the process, several actresses met with Gilligan and Bryan Cranston to work out the scene on a stage before trying it out in front of executives.
“We were laughing and shooting ideas around and it was very fluid and very easygoing,” Gunn recalled. “Bryan and I amused each other immensely from the start. We got into this whole thing about how physically we could pull this off. I told them I was embarrassed to do the air hand-job miming thing. I was just going to start laughing. That would make me feel so silly. So we got an actual object to simulate the activity and it cracked up everybody in the room. But we were able to be completely poker-faced and straight-faced about it, and that’s what made it work.”
Not everyone, though, gets a kick out of Skyler, and Gunn knows that. Men, especially, think she’s a bitch whose sole purpose is to nag her husband and prevent “Heisenberg” from having any fun—an idea that seems ludicrous to those viewers who see Walter for the drug-dealing murdering psychopath that he really is. Gunn keeps it in perspective, though, because she knows Skyler is not the first television wife of a jerky anti-hero husband to catch flak. Before Skyler, there were Carmela Soprano and Betty Draper.
“Some men get a little upset because she’s such a toughie and she’s so strong,” Gunn said. “She’s not somebody to sit in a corner and go, ‘Oh no! Oh no!” and wring her hands and cry and do all that stuff. I think men are really threatened by her a little bit. She’s the one telling Walt don’t do this, don’t do that. If you love the badass Walt, that is, you love Heisenberg, she’s the one that sucks the fun out of it. It’s a fascinating gender issue.”
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