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Vince Gilligan Advises Amplifying “Good Guys” And Warns Against Making Villains “Too Sexy” During WGA Honorary Award Speech
TV juggernaut Vince Gilligan received the WGA's honorary Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award For Television Writing Achievement.
For Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, the WGA honorary Paddy Chayefsky Laurel For Television Writing Achievement served as an opportunity to call for action as a “profoundly divided country.” In his speech, Gilligan pointed out the irony of making one of the “all time great bad guys,” out of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) while also urging the room of writers that it would be better to be celebrated for “creating someone a bit more inspiring in 2025.” “Some of the stuff that audiences have loved about his writing where it’s really rich characters but also him playing with the idea of tropes and genres and tone, and switching, like injected humor in a very dark moment — in this new show, he pushes that to a limit that was both very thought-provoking and upsetting sometimes, and other times, so, so funny.
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