The endless intrigue of Jesse Plemons
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prayformojo (aka mayhem)
Sep 5 '20, 10:54
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“Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan recalls the smallest of moments from shooting the AMC drama’s final season: Jesse Plemons stood outside the compound as meth cook Todd Alquist, holding a half-empty mug of tea handed to his character by the business associate with whom he is infatuated. Straying from the script, Plemons looked down at the lipstick mark she left on the rim and gently traced it with his thumb.
“Then he drinks out of the mug in the same spot where her lips were,” Gilligan says. “It was so perfect when we saw it, we just about jumped out of our skins in the editing room. That was all Jesse.”
Gilligan selects this anecdote out of numerous underscoring how deeply Plemons immersed himself into Todd’s mind-set. He isn’t the only one with a trove of such memories. Two decades into his acting career, Plemons, 32, is esteemed by industry peers and critics alike for the dimension he brings to affable-seeming characters, often accomplished with a dash of lurking menace.
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