TELEVISION show Better Call Saul is slated to premiere it’s final season and audiences are anticipating what to expect for the show’s sixth edition.
After the Breaking Bad spin-off announced it’s final return to Netflix, fans were curious to know which of the cast members are coming back as well.
Robert John Odenkirk plays Jimmy McGill, a lawyer who served a suspension and now practices officially under the name Saul Goodman.
He is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director.
From the 1980s to the 1990s, Odenkirk wrote for television shows such as Saturday Night Live and The Ben Stiller Sho.
He is a two-time Emmy Award winner for his work.
Odenkirk has said his strongest comedic influence was the British hit show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Jonathan Banks plays Mike Ehrmantraut, an enforcer and collector for Gus Fring’s drug business.
His first notable film roles were in the films Airplane!, 48 Hrs, and Beverly Hills Cop.
He has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award six times in his career for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Banks married his first wife in 1968, with whom he had one daughter, the pair divorced in 1970 and Banks married his second wife in 1990.
Rhea Seehorn plays Kim Wexler, a lawyer who is also Jimmy’s wife and confidante.
Her parents were both in the military, her mother was an executive assistant for the United States Navy while her father was an agent in the Naval Investigative Service.
Seehorn graduated from George Mason University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art.
Alongside starring in Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, she has also appeared in NBC’s Whitney and ABC’s I’m With Her.
Patrick Fabian plays Howard Hamlin, the sole managing partner of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill following Chuck McGill’s death.
Fabian was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.
He moved to California where he earned a master’s degree from California State University, Long Beach.
Fabian has appeared in a number of films including The Last Exorcism and has had a number of guest appearances on high-profile TV shows including Will & Grace and Friends.
Michael Mando plays Nacho Varga, a mid-level enforcer for the Salamanca drug ring, and is also a double agent for Gus.
Mando’s family is of Mexican descent, his native language is French, but he can also speaks English and Spanish fluently.
He discovered performing arts at The Dome Theatre Program and graduated from there in 2007.
Tony Dalton plays Lalo Salamanca, a member of the Salamanca family, who works in his uncle Hector’s drug business.
Dalton is a Mexican-American actor, screenwriter, and producer.
He studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York City.
Giancarlo Esposito plays Gus Fring, a methamphetamine distributor who uses his fast-food restaurant chain Los Pollos Hermanos as a front.
Esposito is an Italian-American actor and director.
He has appeared in Spike Lee films such as Do the Right Thing, School Daze, and Mo’ Better Blues.
On April 10, 2022, Better Call Saul’s official Twitter page broke the news of Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul’s reprise of their original Breaking Bad roles.
The show teased their comeback to fans by tweeting an image of the two and said: “They’re coming back.”
Co-creator Peter Gould told Variety on the same day: “I don’t want to spoil things for the audience…”
“But I will say the first question we had when we started the show was, ‘Are we gonna see Walt and Jesse on the show?'”
“Instead of evading, I’ll just say yeah.”
Returning along with Bryan Cranston is Aaron Paul.
In the wake of Breaking Bad’s conclusion, Paul portrayed Jesse Pinkman again in the Netflix movie spin-off, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.
The character is returning once more for the conclusion of Better Call Saul.
Peter Gould further explained Cranston’s and Paul’s presence on the show: “How or the circumstances or anything, you’ll just have to discover that for yourself.”
“But I have to say that’s one of many things that I think you’ll discover this season.”
