And finally when we did it, I kind of threw a little smile in there, and Vince goes, "That's it! Let's do that again, but laugh and smile at him as if you were looking at him and saying, 'You got lucky - I'll see you in hell.'" So we did that, and Vince goes, "That's perfect," and I turned around to Gordon and go, "Was that ugly?" And Gordon said, "No man, that was a beautiful death".
On-Set Injury: Bob Odenkirksuffered a heart attack while filming this episode, which left him so immobilized that he had no pulse and required CPR before being taken to a hospital. Luckily, he stabilized but had to take a two-month break between filming. On the official podcast, Vince Gilligan says that it happened during filming of the scene where Lalo is in the apartment; the shots of Jimmy and Kim on the sofa but without Lalo in shot are before, and the open shots are after. The gap isn't too visible in the episode itself, although some viewers have noted that Lalo has a slightly larger mustache in certain scenes that were likely the ones filmed later.
General Trivia
The Cold Open on the beach, depicting the scene of Howard's staged suicide, was the very last thing to be shot for the show. It was also the only scene in Better Call Saul not to be shot in New Mexico. (Not, notably, across the franchise: El Camino shot its Alaska scene in Wyoming, while Breaking Bad went to New York to shoot Charlie Rose's scene in "Granite State".)
, as he wasn't sure about the original stage direction describing Lalo's "last ugly breath".And finally when we did it, I kind of threw a little smile in there, and Vince goes, "That's it! Let's do that again, but laugh and smile at him as if you were looking at him and saying, 'You got lucky - I'll see you in hell.'" So we did that, and Vince goes, "That's perfect," and I turned around to Gordon and go, "Was that ugly?" And Gordon said, "No man, that was a beautiful death".