|
“We do hear from the occasional partaker of meth and former cooks,” he said. “I assume they are former. They are impressed with our meth skills.”
He added that the show gets input from the DEA in Los Angeles, Albuquerque and even in Dallas.
“We have a DEA chemist who oversaw our very first meth-cooking sequence in our RV, back in the pilot. ‘OK, this step here, this is where you detract the blah, blah, blah.’ I asked, ‘What would it look like?’ He said, ‘Sort of like Strawberry Quik.’ So I said, ‘Go get some Strawberry Quik!’ ”
A season later, Gilligan revealed that he got some high praise from members of the DEA.
“Some DEA honchos were in our meth lab and were like: ‘Wow. This is like the real thing,’” he said. “That made me feel good. You take the pleasures where you can find them.”
Source
|