Imagine, if you will – what historians might call counterfactual thinking – a world in which Jesse Plemons, the actor who played Breaking Bad’s most chilling character, was one of the faces of the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
The actor who terrified us in ‘Breaking Bad’ and the recent ‘Civil War’ talks to Louis Chilton about working with Robert De Niro in Netflix’s ‘Zero Day’, flubbing his audition for ‘Star Wars’, and child acting.
It took getting cast in Civil War, Alex Garland’s 2024 dystopian thriller, for Plemons to lose weight, through fasting and lifestyle changes.
Van Zandt sang about misfits, misanthropes, people in love – it’s easy to guess why his music resonated with Plemons, who has made a career out of playing unconventional men.
“I first gained weight for Black Mass,” he explains – the 2015 crime film in which Plemons played real-life mafioso Kevin Weeks opposite Johnny Depp’s Whitey Bulger.
