You’ve been on a lot of sets over the course of your career. How is Breaking Bad’s different?
First of all, the old saw: How do you make an actor bitch? You give him a job. But people truly enjoy their job on Breaking Bad, and they understand that it’s a quality [show]; it’s not the norm. And that sounds like such a Pollyanna thing to say, but it's absolutely true.
Where does that stem from? Vince Gilligan? Bryan Cranston?
It has to stem from the quality of what it is in the beginning, and that would be Vince. And it starts with Bryan as an actor. Bryan walks onto that set, Bryan has a great attitude, and with that great attitude, you better be having a good attitude yourself. If Bryan can come and work fourteen hours of the day, and be cold or wet or rainy or whatever it is, or dusty and miserable, then you know what? You better get your stuff together and be that way yourself.
Your character, Mike, is not your average thug. What do you see in him that is different from some of the other tough guys you’ve played?
I think Vince and the rest of the writers already, just by giving me that monologue in “Half Measures” [the penultimate episode of season three] — you already know that there is this past. And in the second episode of season four, when I sit there and I rub the blood off, there is a tortured soul there. There is something that has gone terribly, terribly wrong at some point. You can’t go as far to say that Mike is good; he’s certainly not. But would he do a good turn for another human being? You suspect that he might.
Source: Full interview @ Vulture
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