"He seems pretty happy with [his situation] in Breaking Bad," says Gilligan. "There's so many bad things that have happened to him. How can he be so happy-go-lucky? Maybe it's a Pagliacci act, maybe he's not quite as happy as he seems." "Be careful what you pretend to be, you become it," adds Gould, paraphrasing writer Kurt Vonnegut. "You'll learn a little bit more as this season goes on. What we discovered is that there's very specific reasons that he's put on this mask and there's specific reasons that he's playing this role even when he's out of the public view."
