‘The Acolyte’ creator Leslye Headland and star Amandla Stenberg explain that shocking premiere opening scene, and how it was influenced by ‘Breaking Bad.’ https://t.co/MdVhfXcMqd
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In the opening scene Carrie-Anne Moss’s Jedi Master Indara is killed by Amandla Stenberg’s assassin Mae.
Leslye Headland explained “I think it’s the TV writer in me, to create a cold open that you were just shocked by. Not to compare myself at all to Vince Gilligan, but the cold open to Breaking Bad is one of the best cold opens ever. So whenever I sit down to write anything, I’m like, ‘Well, I won’t be able to top that, but in my show, what’s the version of that?’ And it felt like the best I could come up with was killing Carrie-Anne Moss. It was icing Trinity and just having everyone go, ‘I’m sorry. What’s happening in this?’”
