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[jimmymcgools]

good morning / evening / happy timezone! if you feel like it, what are some of your favourite BCS interviews, text or video?

oh man, hell yes! thanks for asking! ♥️

i’ve definitely forgotten some good ones and this is shamelessly biased toward my favourite characters, but hopefully this is a good place to start especially if you’re looking for kim + jimmy talk!

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How They Made It: The Spectacular Fifth Season of ‘Better Call Saul’

a great article with quotes from everyone. home of the famous “these are two people who got a law office for love and got married for business.” quote from peter, and the lesser quoted set-up which i love just as much: 

“I think if you were to ask her, the character, ‘Well, why are you getting married?’ she would say, ‘Because Jimmy told me that he lies so he can protect me from having to testify against him.’ Which is a very lawyerly reason. But I think they get married because they love each other.” 🥺

How Rhea Seehorn Became Better Call Saul's Greatest Showman (huge props to @scullysflannel​ for totally crushing it) 

And she’s not ready to do that. 

‘Better Call Saul’ Star Rhea Seehorn: ‘It Is A Crazy Ride From Here To The End’ 

more great stuff from rhea and really interesting commentary on kim+jimmy’s relationship in season 4 (up to 4x07). “But Kim’s filling up every second of every day because God forbid she should just sit with her feelings for a minute.”

Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk on Jimmy's strange reaction to Chuck's death

short and heartbreaking interview with bob about jimmy’s headspace in episode 4x01

Rhea Seehorn on ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3 Finale: Is Kim Finally ‘Breaking Bad?’

rhea talking about the end of season 3. 

Bob Odenkirk still has hope for Saul Goodman in penultimate season

i love this one because bob talks about jimmy’s anger and im obsessed with the anger of both these characters

Better Call Saul finale: Michael McKean explains Chuck's shocker

really long and interesting interview with mckean about chuck! most of these interviews have helped guide my fic a lot but my chuck notes are like 90% quotes from mckean in this. definitely worth a read if you’re interested in mckean’s thoughts on what makes chuck tick!

videos

Conversations with Bob Odenkirk of BETTER CALL SAUL

this is my favourite bob interview. i think the interviewer asks maybe three questions, and the rest is bob going ham. they did it towards the end of filming season 5, and i feel like he’s completely in the headspace of the character.

highlights include (starting at about 6:00) recounting his email argument with peter over a line reading -- a line that was written as a statement but bob wanted as a question. he says it’s from episode 9, but my big theory is that he’s talking about the “hundred thousand?” from 1x08, because he does a vince impression when he talks about the episode’s director.

and at 16:00 -- “i love the scene at the graveyard. did you say ‘boo-hoo’?” 

Rhea Seehorn dishes Kim's fate on 'Better Call Saul'

all these gold derby ones with rhea and bob are fascinating and this one really launches right into it. 

such great stuff about kim using silence as a position of power, and kim’s motivation for the chuck takedown (she’s defending jimmy but also she wants to keep mesa verde! “she has her own ego and ambition issues”). and then at 12:30 -- “asking chuck, do you realise that, if this is true, your brother would go to jail? and he’s fine with it. and it’s so disturbing [to kim] that he is that black and white.” 

i love about 9:00 in, too. kim gives jimmy “counsel without judgement, which i think is a very different thing than he’s getting from other people in his life.” 

as you can see i started rewatching and now i’m helplessly adding more and more rhea quotes to this section. it’s so good and every gold derby one is SO good. 

Inside the Writers Zoom with Better Call Saul, hosted by Patton Oswalt

patton interviewing some of the writers! some great stuff at about 15 minutes about the proposal and the kim flashback. 

i’m also forever haunted by mr. peter gould’s twinkly little all-knowing eyes in any interview he’s in. peter tell me your secrets (don’t tell me i want to wait) but tell me 

Conversations at Home with BETTER CALL SAUL

uh this one is just a joy to watch and there’s so many dogs 🐶

hopefully that’s a good amount and not too overwhelming! i’m also looking forward to kicking myself in a week when i think of all the great stuff i forgot to include 😂

thanks again for asking! this was super fun.