With word that John de Lancie would reprise his role as the enigmatic trickster Q on Star Trek: Picard, the actor reflected on how another of his characters, from Breaking Bad, touched a fan's heart.
De Lancie played air traffic controller Donald Margolis in Seasons 2 and 3 of Breaking Bad. Margolis was a troubled father who struggled with his daughter Jane's heroin addiction. De Lancie told Variety, "I would have loved for that character to have continued."
"Let me just tell you, it’s very interesting what different characters can do for somebody," he noted. "In this case, just imagine a 22-year-old, shy, kind of strung out kid who comes up to me and says, 'Hey, are you Jane’s father?' And I go, 'Uh, yeah.' And he’s looking at me kind of askance, and he goes, 'Yeah, well, now I guess I know what my parents went through.'"
De Lancie went on to say, "I'm sure his parents did everything to try to keep him from, you know — 'Please, you can't keep on doing this, you're going to ruin your life.' And he couldn’t hear any of it, but he could be affected when he saw it in a story. So I'm really happy to have played that role."
Distraught after Jane's death, Margolis made an error that caused a mid-air plane collision that killed 167 people. The last reference to Margolis on Breaking Bad was a news report that he was hospitalized with a self-inflicted gunshot, leaving his fate unresolved, although it is possible for him to appear on prequel Better Call Saul.
Source: Variety
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