By Sam Haysom
If you thought filming conditions for Game of Thrones were secretive, just wait until you hear about Bryan Cranston’s cameo in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show on Monday, Cranston broke down the sneaky lengths he had to go to in order to film his scene, starting with a private jet down to Albuquerque after he’d finished the matinee performance of a play.
“Two steps down off onto the tarmac in Albuquerque and I’m in a dark car driven by Denis Milligan, our driver captain, and he zips me out to an Airbnb,” describes Cranston, before revealing how things got even more secretive from there on out.
“When we got to the base camp, instead of having Walt and Jessie, or Bryan and Aaron on the dressing rooms, it said Bert and Ernie. And I had to wear a cloak like I was in The Mandalorian, I had this cloak like Obi-Wan Kenobi and they couldn’t see me. It was very secretive. At the Owl Restaurant in Albuquerque where we were shooting, they put signs out that said, ‘Shooting mayonnaise commercial.’ Just everything and anything to divert the attention.”
The real kicker? Cranston shot in Albuquerque the day before appearing on Fallon’s show back in Jan. 2019, where he somehow managed to keep an impressive poker face when asked if a movie was in the works.