"Actually rock candy": When Bryan Cranston spoke about Breaking Bad’s blue meth

The blue meth on Breaking Bad was not just any other prop. Over the years it has become a memorable pop culture reference. During an interview, Bryan Cranston shared that the blue meth shown on the show was in fact rock candy, which he even enjoyed eating off-screen. In Breaking Bad, Cranston portrayed the role of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher, who becomes a meth operator.

While speaking on the show First We Feast, Cranston spoke about the famous blue meth on Breaking Bad. He told Sean Evans,

“TV methamphetamine, the way we made it with a little blue tint, is actually rock candy. And the flavor was cotton candy.”

Cranston, who resisted to try it at first, also went on to share a story about how he ended up enjoying the ‘TV meth.’

“I never tasted it until one night we were working, it was probably the 16th or 17th hour. We were working in our dungeon downstairs, our lab down there…. And I see Aaron Paul reach into our product. A handful of our product. Starts throwing the methamphetamine in his mouth. I go, what are you doing? You can’t eat the product. He goes, ‘I’m getting so tired I’m eating’. And so it’s like you’re really getting a high off this...well, it’s sugar. And he goes, ‘you have tasted it?’ I go, no I haven’t tasted it.”

He continued,

“He goes, ‘you should taste it’. I go, no I don’t think so and I guess I was still in character because Walter White wouldn’t ever….He goes...'you got to have one’…'yo have one’, is what he would say….I tasted one. And it was like, that’s pretty good. And so …. they rolled the camera and he and I are just talking we’re like eating all the methamphetamine.”

What is blue meth in Breaking Bad?

Walter White is a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When he is diagnosed with lung cancer, he sets on a mission to get his family financially secured by getting in the drug business with his former student, Jesse Pinkman (played by Aaron Paul). They use a makeshift methamphetamine lab in a van middle of the desert to produce meth.

Using his chemistry knowledge, Walter creates a crystal meth that has never been seen before. Also referred to as blue sky on Breaking Bad, the blue meth is the purest form of crystal meth that Walter concocts. The meth is said to have purity of 99.1 per cent and because it is naturally blue, it is often referred to as ‘blue sky meth’. The signature potent meth goes on to make him a drug lord.

Breaking Bad ran for 5 seasons from 2008 to 2013 and is often considered among one of the best television shows of all time. Created by Vince Gilligan, the show also had other successful ventures including the hit series Better Call Saul, starring Bob Odenkirk, and the movie titled El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, starring Aaron Paul.

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