His alter ego on Better Call Saul doesn’t care for bullies either, though Mike typically has a more violent response toward men who behave badly. I’m living in a more polite world than what I grew up in, but any man who is condescending or downgrading to his partner - that’s pretty hard to be around.” Banks learned from her example to this day, he harbors a strong dislike for men who bully the women in their lives. (She passed away in 2012, long enough for her to see Banks make his career-transforming debut on Breaking Bad.) Among her many jobs along the way, she was an office manager for the CIA, where her duties included advising the secretarial staff on how to confront workplace harassment.
My mother was my role model I was very aware that any woman could be a lot smarter than I am and certainly could be my boss and certainly can be my president.”Įlena Adams Banks’s career path never took her to the Oval Office, but as her son tells it, her life traveled an equally inspiring arc, from 15-year-old housekeeper to single mother to retired college professor. I should be half the woman my mother ever was, and I don’t mean that in a coy way. “She would have grinned and smiled when I said ‘tough broad’ too, because she would have looked at herself in the same way. “My mom was a tough broad,” Banks says, his normally gruff voice full of good cheer. And the veteran character actor tells Yahoo Entertainment that he modeled his fan favorite character, Mike Ehrmantraut, after the toughest person he knows: his mother.
Week in and week out, Jonathan Banks delivers a master class in being a top-notch TV tough guy on AMC’s popular Breaking Bad prequel series, Better Call Saul. (Photo: Nicole Wilder/AMC/Sony Pictures Television) Jonathan Banks in the Season 4 finale of Better Call Saul.
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