1 / 11
Making Bad: An Evening With Vince Gilligan
How do you create an evolving, morally complex character using only colors, clothing, and some common household items? AMC, Vince Gilligan, and the crew of presently returning, soon-to-be-ending meth opus Breaking Bad did it, then put it on display at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Off the beaten New York City path in Astoria, Queens, the Museum houses over 130,000 artifacts from the film and television industries. Its core exhibition, where the new Breaking Bad collection is nestled, covers over 15,000 square feet with props, costumes, makeup, and technical equipment that cover the production, promotion, and exhibition of the moving image throughout its more than 100-year history.
Museum curator and cultural anthropologist Barbara Miller set up the Breaking Bad shop as a sub-exhibit dedicated to the costumes, makeup, props, and other objects used to wordlessly communicate the interior world the of now-iconic chemistry teacher-turned-kingpin Walter White and his complexities. Miller gave WIRED a private tour (or mini-tour, more like) of the collection she hand-picked from wardrobe boxes, prop rooms, and designer portfolios behind the scenes of one of the most nuanced dramas on television.
Click through the gallery above for more highlights from the exhibit. Some spoilers follow. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for AMC)
