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Michael McKean talks Better Call Saul, life and love - interview on Really Famous Podcast

Better Call Saul actor Michael McKean sits down with Kara for the Really Famous podcast. They talk about why Chuck McGill is "America's sweetheart," what he thinks about Walter White and Skyler White on Breaking Bad, playing one half of "Lenny & Squiggy" on Laverne & Shirley, the backstory he created for the film This Is Spinal Tap, what moves him in real life and onscreen, his favorite films and actors, his lifelong battle with insomnia, what he inherited from his parents, why a missing password is stopping him from doing something he's really into, his favorite films and actors, and why he was a "screw-up" as a kid.

MICHAEL MCKEAN

Better Call Saul, This Is Spinal Tap, Laverne & Shirley, SNL, Best in Show

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Highlights

  • Michael reveals the Chuck McGill TWIST that surprised even him.

  • We analyze the characters on Better Call Saul.

  • He surprises me with what people say to him about Skyler (and Walter White) on BREAKING BAD.

  • He tells me why he doesn't buy into the idea of REGRET.

  • Michael says he was a SCREW-UP when he was younger and explains what he inherited from his parents.

  • We get into juicy bits about LENNY & SQUIGGY (you know, from Laverne and Shirley), David St. Hubbins (This Is Spinal Tap) and The Brady Bunch Movie.

  • Michael shares what makes him EMOTIONAL (in real life and onscreen).

 

From Michael's mouth to your ears:

  • "Hey Jimmy, there's a shark there!"

  • "Rather than just being a fragile, fractured human being with enormous intellect and nowhere to go with it...they put the whip in my hand, or in Chuck's hand."

  • "There were people who wanted that character dead."

  • "I'm a lifelong insomniac."

  • "I flunked out of college."

  • "Great comedy makes me laugh. Great tragedy puts me away."

  • "I'm a sucker for actresses. I married one -- only one."

  • "I got a lot of offers to play the goofy neighbor next door in a lot of other things and -- no thank you."

  • "I've never been either hot nor not...and it's kind of OK with me."