Update: The Oscar winner’s publicist has since confirmed that Hopkins did indeed send the fan letter below.
Even two weeks after Breaking Bad’s epic series finale aired, the world is still discovering and obsessing over AMC’s Emmy-winning series. Case in point: Anthony Hopkins, who reportedly binge-watched the entire five seasons in a recent two-week marathon. The 75-year-old Oscar winner was apparently so impressed by the series that he e-mailed a kind-hearted fan letter toBreaking Bad’s inimitable lead, Bryan Cranston, which notes, “Your performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen—ever.”
The letter asks Cranston to pass along similar praise to the rest of the Breaking Badcast including Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Aaron Paul, and Steven Michael Quezada—the latter of whom posted the message in full on his Facebook page on Sunday.
Cranston has not yet publicly acknowledged the note because, we hope, he is busy printing out 1,000 copies of this memo at the nearest FedEx/Kinkos and attaching it as the cover letter to his résumés. (Not that he needs them.) That, or personally sealing the copies in envelopes addressed to every Emmy voter next year. Compared with the last Bryan Cranston fan letter that was publicized—in which he was propositioned for a threesome with co-star Aaron Paul—a fan letter from an Oscar winner seems like a legitimate upgrade.