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He was cast in his first recurring role as Scott Quittman on the TV series Big Love in 2007. He landed his breakout role as Jesse Pinkman—a meth user, maker and dealer—in Breaking Bad in 2008, for which he won three Primetime Emmy awards. In 2013, he moved beyond acting when he became an executive producer (and voice actor) for the animated series BoJack Horseman.
AARON PAUL
On what type of role he likes the most, Cranston says it’s the “vilro [combination of villain and hero]. Usually villains are more interesting to play. And then you look at someone like Walter White and you think, ‘Hero? Villain? I don’t know.’ I don’t know what he is, but more importantly, you have to find that human connection, make it important, make it relatable to people watching. It’s art. You can’t serve something that someone’s going to recoil from.”
BRYAN CRANSTON
Q. How did you become friends?
Q. What is your favorite memory
of drinking mezcal together?
Breaking Bad was 7 years of our lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When you’re doing a show, it’s like going away to sleepaway camp. You hope to become close friends, but then you go back to your regular lives. You hope to stay in touch and sometimes you do. But most of the time, you don’t. It’s just not the same. But Bryan became one of my best friends in the world, my mentor very early on. I’ve learned so much from him on-screen and off.
AP.
Most everything he knows, he learned from me.
BC.
The most memorable time of trying it together was the first time at our palenque [distillation operation]. We had no delusions that this was going to be different than any other time that we had tried the 90 previous samples. So it was, “Salut, salut, boom... What, wait!”
BC.
That setting, everything about just that experience getting there,
I will take to my grave. It was really extraordinary. If that kid didn’t see
us, if we just missed that kid, Dos Hombres possibly would not exist.
AP.
Q. What’s behind the name Dos Hombres?
It was just kind of a placeholder. We didn’t really know what we were going to do, but we said, “There’s these two guys.” Aaron and I both come from blue collar families, hard-working people. All we really know is "go to work." We don’t believe anything is owed to us. Now, that being said, we do understand that we have an advantage because of our work association on Breaking Bad and that does pique some interest, but we’ve got to go in there and bring in this product.
BC.
Q. How are you enjoying work outside of entertainment?
It’s remarkable. As we were entering this business, we were like dry sponges. We’ve learned so much over the last six years and we enjoy the business so much. We’re excited about it. We are as passionate, invested and involved in the Dos Hombres mezcal business as we are with anything that we produce in the entertainment world. We love the work. We love meeting people and talking about it because we’re so proud of it.
BC.
When you meet with people, they all just want to raise a glass with you. It’s nice to have a cocktail and talk about something you’re very passionate about. We invited our closest friends and family, and all of them wanted to join this journey with us. We are very excited.
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DRINK IT WELL
DOS HOMBRES:
Mezcal is slowly shaking loose its rough reputation as more sophisticated versions
like Dos Hombres, with its smoky smoothness, are popping up on store shelves.
“Drinking mezcal is ritualistic,” Cranston says. “I love what the Spanish do. They say,
‘You never shoot it, you kiss it. Just kiss it, let it touch your lips.’”
The choice between mezcal and tequila may be a personal one, but “We always say
mezcal is like tequila’s older, more sophisticated relative. It’s been around way longer
than tequila,” Paul says.
Award-winning Dos Hombres is made from Espadin, an agave that takes six years to
mature before it can be harvested and turned into mezcal. The duo work with third-
generation mezcalero Gregorio Velasco who still farms agave and produces mezcal
using traditional methods. “He started learning the ropes when he turned 8 years old.
He started teaching his son when he turned 8. So his son is fourth generation. His son
will end up taking over the operation when Gregorio eventually retires, which is just so
great,” Paul says.
“It’s pure, it’s artisanal,” Cranston adds of the production process. “There’s smoked agave and mountain spring water and that’s it. Those are the ingredients.” This simplicity makes it a great spirit to sip or to use as a base for cocktails.
Cranston and Paul also are on an education mission to show just how versatile Dos Hombres is. “Mezcal will be new to most customers, but it’s been around for hundreds of years. The cocktails that come out of this are just amazing,” Cranston says. “There are so many fruits growing wild in Oaxaca that cross-pollinate and infuse the agave plant with these beautiful tasting fruits and earthiness. Dos Hombres
blends well with any fruit juice. It’s just a fantastic, wonderful spirit. Any way you want to drink it, you’re right. That’s how you should drink it.”
MEZCAL OR TEQUILA?
Both are liquors made from the agave plant. Mezcal can be made from a variety of agave whose core (or piña) is cooked in earthen pits fueled with wood and charcoal, yielding a savory, smoky flavor. Tequila is a type of mezcal but is made only from the blue agave and the piña is steamed in ovens for a smooth, sweet flavor.
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Bryan Cranston, a Los Angeles native, was headed toward a career in law enforcement when an acting class derailed that plan. He has played a variety of characters like Jerry Seinfeld’s dentist on Seinfeld and distracted father, Hal, on Malcolm in the Middle before being cast as Walter White in Breaking Bad. During the show’s five-season run, Cranston won three consecutive Primetime Emmy awards—only the second actor to achieve such an honor. Since Breaking Bad, Cranston has been featured in a variety of movie and television roles such as Argo, Drive, Godzilla and Isle of Dogs.
He was cast in his first recurring role as Scott Quittman on the TV series Big Love in 2007. He landed his breakout role as Jesse Pinkman—a meth user, maker and dealer—in Breaking Bad in 2008, for which he won three Primetime Emmy awards. In 2013, he moved beyond acting when he became an executive producer (and voice actor) for the animated series BoJack Horseman.
Aaron Paul knew he wanted to be an actor from the time he watched the movie Stand By Me when he was 12 years old. He started saving up his money, and after graduating from high school a year early, he left Idaho in 1998 and headed to Los Angeles. “It took me 8 or 9 months, but from the moment I got my first job, I’ve been living off the industry,” says Paul. Some of his early gigs were on “every hour drama on TV. I was always the guy that they were interrogating that everyone thought was the bad guy. Then, you realize he was just misunderstood.”