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Walter White Jr.

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Walter White Jr. is a character in the TV series Breaking Bad (2008), played by RJ Mitte.

9 Interesting Facts About Walter White Jr.

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#001
Walter White's bloody handprint is visible on one of the large canisters. Vince Gilligan said he wanted to use the original props and could not bring himself to wipe it off.
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#002
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Vince Gilligan said the Christmas classic "Frosty The Snowman" inspired the Heisenberg persona he created for Walter White. Just as Frosty "came alive" once his hat was on, Heisenberg did not "come alive" until the hat went onto Walter White's head.
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#003
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The GPS coordinates given for the desert spot where Walter White buries his money are in fact those of Albuquerque Studios, where much of the series was shot.
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Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) uses a car key fob that looks suspiciously like the one Walter White (Bryan Cranston) uses to trigger the machine gun in Felina (2013).
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#005
The role of Walter White Jr. is RJ Mitte's first speaking part.
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Jane Margolis is often cited as an example of the "Woman in the Refrigerator" trope, a plot device in which a female character exists mainly to suffer or die so that a male lead can develop. She is usually a love interest. Across Season 2, Jane's relationship with Jesse Pinkman is built up over 8 episodes before she dies in S2E12. Walter White's anguished yet calculated choice not to step in while she was choking, ensuring her death, marked a turning point for him and set up his slide into ruthlessness. Jesse blames himself and is haunted by guilt, and the fallout from Jane's fate echoes through the rest of the series.
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#007
The "Save Walter White" website was a real, working site used for marketing, and every "donation" fans made was passed on to a cancer research charity.
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#008
Gilligan had already cast Bryan Cranston against type in the The X-Files (1993) episode Drive (1998), where he played a white supremacist whose head would explode if his car dropped below 50 miles per hour because of an infection. Gilligan has said that working together on that episode convinced him Cranston was the only actor who could play Walter White.
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#009
Walter White's alias, Heisenberg, honors Werner Heisenberg, who formulated the uncertainty principle: a particle's position and its direction and speed cannot both be determined precisely at the same instant.
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