Some of my favourite quotes + scenes in chronological order. I am absolutely in love with this character, can’t wait for season 6! #bettercallsaul #lalosalamanca
@@lucascerritos1616His impulsivity didn't kill him, his failure to instantly shoot Gus did. The second he killed those goons in that room, Gus should have had lead in his skull within a minute. His taunting of the chicken man was his undoing.
@@BibleJamesto be fair he couldnt have killed gus right then and there. he had to find evidence that gus was betraying the cartel, which he needed gus to provide by opening the door to the lab. but after that, yeah he should have put a bullet in his head
Lalo is just on another level for me. Not only is he terrifying, but the fact that he’s so likable and charismatic, it’s just impossible not to love every scene where he appears
@@lapacesiaconvoi No, Nacho was burnt with Salamancas before he met Lalo because they tried to use/threaten his father. Nacho was just going through the motions. There is no picking and choosing "good" Salamancas haha
Lalo isn’t a genius. He’s a hot headed idiot like all the other Salamancas, perhaps except Hector. The man gets arrested after he burns down a building after he kills the man inside. If it weren’t for Saul, Lalo’s ass would have been grass. Lalo just got lucky and his calculation was way off. Gus is gonna get his ass ez
@@wattsnottaken1 Even in BrBa, I was rooting for Gustavo. As much of a bastard as Fring was, I still reeeeally wanted him to get his revenge and kill Hector.
Lalo really is a perfect psychopath. What lots of people tend to forget about psychopaths is that the most common adjective to describe them isn't "scary"... It's "charming".
@@FenriZz Psychopaths are, if inteligent or "high-functioning" enough, able to sublimate their anti-social traits into pro-social "cognitive empathy". Not necessarily genuinely understanding or feeling empathy in the typical sense, but being intelligent enough to acknowledge the level of emotion that should typically be associated with an action or event, and which emotion as well. Both psychopaths and sociopaths are able to have "Weak spots" emotionally, especially if the person or thing has been with them for long enough, but it does not necessarily mean that they are completely wide open. Lalo is definitely intelligent, and most likely more so than Hector - Lalo is smart enough not to brute force his way into a meeting with Gus like Hector did, for one example.
I found it interesting that he actually faced realistic consequences for murdering the dude at the travel agency. Usually a muder like that would be treated as a joke or a one off scene. Even in this show.
@@TMTM7 In the writers defense, most of the murders of non-charecters are done in such a way that they would have gotten cleaned up before anyone was the wiser
he 100% would've gotten away with it like every other murder if Mike, literally a very determined bulldog in the shape of an old man, hadn't spent like 2 episodes orchestrating every little piece to fall into place so he gets caught not to bravo vince too hard but the fact that the one time the bad guy didn't get away with it, and only because another high-tier criminal went out of his way to expose him (at the behest of a dude that might as well be Satan for all the dimly lit evil rooms he stands in), kinda speaks to the deeply fucked and coldly indifferent vibe BB and BCS have
The way he delivered the line "Michael.... Is that you?" Is everything. I was so scared and so tickled at the same time I replayed that phone call scene so many times
3:34 He was holding that gun up as 1 car came... then 2.. even 3... at 4 cars is when he decided the odds were too high, puts it away. Lalo has some serious self esteem and a warriors spirit. The ending of the last season proves its not just arrogance either.
6:10 is so badass... he jumps 15 feet down to a car that's precariously resting upside in a ditch. He's in the desert. If anything goes wrong; broken ankle or leg, he might die. He's also in the same spot people tried to kill and murder his lawyer a couple days earlier. Epitomizes this man perfectly. He's a physical beast and also completely fucking crazy.
@@maxgriffin2125 I mean calculated and crazy aren't mutually exclusive. He's supremely intelligent, charming AND calculating. He's also 100% a sociopath, which counts as "crazy" in my book. Some of the most brilliant minds of all time were/ are also batshit crazy.
The friendlier Lalo is, the more intimidating he becomes. It’s also hilarious how nonchalant he is about being violent. He’ll beat the fuck out of you then smile and say have a good day. Great acting
Lalo's combination of charisma, tactility, and complete disregard for human life makes for one the most frightening yet interesting characters I've ever seen. Everytime he's on screen, it's just unpredictable what the outcome will be and I'm all for it 🙌
It's unbelievable that an actor who begins his career in mexican telenovelas like RBD or Clase 406 now is in the main cast of Better Call Saul and Hawkeye. A lot of respect for Tony Dalton, can't wait for his revenge in season 6!
It's actors like these who get their big break in their 2nd half of their career that show how important it is to just keep working at your passion/craft
@@iwishiwasthomasshelby The heck are you talking about man? He's Mexican American. He handles both languages great. Hell, he speaks better Spanish than Nacho or Gustavo.
@@iwishiwasthomasshelby He is from Texas, I think. Also, he has been in the cast of a lot of mexican films like Matando Cabos and La Dictadura Perfecta, speaking fluent spanish.
@@suicidalmuffin93 Gustavo and Nacho are just terrible. I’m not Mexican but my best friends are Mexican and I could speak Spanish for 30 years. Lalo is better than others but if you are legit from Mexico, you can hear differences in some words. Just my opinion.
He reminds me a bit of Miami Vice villain Orlando Calderone, played by John Leguizamo back then. He was also sort of a successor to his cartel father and pursued his target relentlessly, wearing the charming facade of a jovial (Puerto Rican albeit) gangster with a calculating psycho underneath. South American dude bros are a dangerous lot, and I'm saying this as a hispanic.
Once, maybe twice in a lifetime a character emerges and quickly becomes a top favorite of all time. No character has ever been ushered into that ether faster than Lala Salamanca
Mike’s character had to be developed. Slower burn. Gustavo jumped off the screen from the jump but not with the horsepower that Lalo was introduced. I’m talking about in the first 30 seconds Lalo is introduced it’s a rollercoaster of charisma, cunning, menace and humor. Bouncing in and out of Spanish to English effortlessly. Just fascinating lol
@@what-ex9yv The voice actor for Trevor played the hit man that mike disarmed when they were in the parking garage applying for a bodyguard position with the doctor selling drugs to the cartel.
@@tylerm7300 In terms of sheer intellect and reverse psychology Heisenberg's unmatched. But I do think Lalo might just be a bad matchup for Walter, but then again we see Walter get out of the most shittiest of situations with the most brilliant plans.
Lalo is my favorite character of the entire Breaking Bad Universe, right up there with Walt and Saul. I am actually rooting for Lalo, thanks to Tony Dalton's fantastic performance.
I think Lalo is the only Salamanca that has what it take to be a don...Tuco doesn't for obvious reasons...Hector isn't really good with people...and twins probably doesn't want to do anything else other than being the guns
@@guitarninja416 I mean Hector and Eladio initially built the Cartel, until Hector went away for 17 years. Being a Don isn't simply just being charismatic you know. Plus he mentored Lalo who was probably the most capable Cartel enforcer/investigator there was.
I love how this dude is one of the few dude that is so mexican in his gestures and the way he gets along with people. Not many Mexican actors actually act mexican even if the roll they are playing is mexican
I hope to see a lot more of Tony Dalton in the future. This as an actor who joined a series full of amazing actors near the end of its run, and still managed to become a standout.
Lalo is a great character and is clearly suspicious of everything and if it don't add up he tries to get bottom of it. Giving me low key batman vibes lol
Lalo Batmanca... but he aint that smart. kills dude at travel wire to get expelled from the city and lose 7 M for no reason... lose precious time in jail for no reason what so ever
@@asadiqbal2065 Yeah I was wondering why he didn’t just bribe the guy to see the video. If he’d offered him $50k on the spot it probably would’ve overcome any hesitation from the worker. Though I don’t view it as a dumb move per se, just impulsive/reckless. He was also on a time crunch because the trail was going cold.
As awesome and formidable as Lalo is, I was surprised that he really wound up trusting Varga. I honestly thought he was just waiting for him to make a move.
@@TMTM7 eh, I feel like Tuco and Lalo have a weird sort of way of connecting with people, and that is their undoing. For example, Tuco’s emotional breakdowns (not his meth head anger macho stuff) come when someone insults his abuelita and when he believes his cousin betrayed him, and of course he trusted his cousin. He actually would have won against Walt and Jesse if they hadn’t of upset Hector. Lalo defends his family, but recognizes Tuco’s methods as irrational…but he has the same rage when Nacho betrays him and I believe he let him in because he wanted a friend. So, I like to think Tuco and Lalo are cut of the same cloth, but show it in different ways, whereas Hector seems to be the one with the massive ego. And the cousins are just psychos who don’t let anyone in. They have each other.
I mean there was nothing to indicate that Nacho was a mole. And it's not like Lalo readily trusted him. He had Saul( a guy he had known for a couple of weeks at most at that point) act as his bagman instead of Nacho. It's only when Kim berates him for having no one to trust that he decides to give Nacho a chance. He had just seen Nacho risk getting busted to prevent the cops from finding their coke when Krazy 8 got arrested. He had seen Nacho loyally carry out every order he had given him. Plus Lalo getting arrested and then getting out on bail meant that he had to leave the US, meaning he HAD to trust somebody to oversee the Salamanca operations north of the border. From Lalo's perspective, Nacho was the best choice- intelligent, careful, loyal
@@naheyanprottush8808 kind of there was, every Salamanca that nacho worked directly under had sudden back to back issues. Realistically nacho would never of lasted as long as he did.
@@paveesfox375none of the issues were something that could reasonably be nacho fault tho? Tuco was high off meth and attacked somebody. Hector is an old ass man with heart problems and had a stroke. If you told anybody in the cartel that happened they would be like oh makes sense because it fits with their character. Now if tuco and hector had gotten shot or something i would def blame nacho
For those that also watched Hawkeye, when Tony dalton’s character was acting friendly I thought for sure he was gonna be a villain. Lalo’s “friendliness” has scarred me haha
Lalo is the whole package, a bad ass combination of all 5. Todd (sociopath, pure evil) Mike (tactical abilities) Guss (calculating, and careful) Saul (charisma) Hank (picks up on details that others can't see)
When the guy was first introduced I thought he was just going to be another run of the mill unmemorable bad guy. But the character's writing and Dalton's acting have elevated him to top class.
Lalo impressed me most when he was able to climb back up after jumping down to Saul's car in the ditch. Anyone in the southwest knows those little ditch walls would break up and are horrible to climb up
I love how they make him that sort of pulpy type of superhuman, nothing he does is strictly impossible, but its beyond human limits for one person to do so much so consistently. really made him feel like a real force of evil threat.
His father is Mexican and mother is American.. He was born in US, but spend some of his time in Mexico.. He is American by citizenship. He speaks English like an American and Spanish like a Mexican..
It's a great scene between Lalo and Kim Wexler. Kim is used to getting whatever information she seeks with the 'carrot/stick' approach in legalese. Lalo isn't falling for it but basically tells her Saul is fine because he's a survivor. Takes one to know one. Lalo reminds me of a mistimed jack-in-the-box in which it's unnerving not knowing when he'll spring. His off the chart charisma makes up for it.
People that say his spanish is bad clearly have never met an authentic mexican lmao you should see Señor Avila, it's a TV series where Tony Dalton is the protagonist and it's damn good
He was born in Texas, but he was raised speaking spanish as a first language, most of his work since 2002 are mexican movies and soap operas, all of them in spanish. He has lived in Mexico so many years he has all the mannerisms. I'm from Mexico myself, to be exact, from Sinaloa (mostly famous for narcos and Mazatlan), Lalo Salamanca is the only one who acts remotely like narcos from my homestate, which are the predominant kind on mexican cartel based works of fiction.
I noticed Lalo is based on a very recent pop-culture depiction of genius. He's outgoing and charismatic, he's very intelligent in the raw sense, he even sleeps less than 2 hours. That's a depiction of the ideal in a lot of circles. The guy's like the manifestation of all the self-help books out there. So, in that sense, I think he's meant to be an on-the-nose critique of that idea, both in the sense that we idolize complete psychopaths that happen to display these traits, and also (through the countless other successful individuals in the show) that he demonstrates those traits are quite far from the ideal. Lalo's just another Walter White; there's nothing about him that warrants respect or admiration.
@@ozbej5988 He's still alive in the breaking bad show timeline, Saul when he first get's kidnapped by walt and jesse asks them if they were sent by Lalo. Mentions nacho as well
Vince, we demand You to write a another prequel About the Salamanca’s and their past and how they rose to power. I would love to know more about Hector backstory and how he became a prominent leader in the cartel. I would also love to see young Tuco, Lalo, Marco, and Leonel learn from their Tio. I’m also interested in learning about Héctors relationship with his younger brothers a.k.a. the fathers of his nephews. And please do a backstory on Gus as well!
I've seen some comments of people saying Lalo's spanish is not good and I can't believe it. His mexican spanish is better than his american English (lol Idk) 🤔🤔🤔 I didn't even know he was born in texas! until I saw him in better call saul speaking english fluently, he's half mexican but yeah his mexican spanish is 100% authentic, I used to watch rebelde in 2004 where he was "gaston". Eres la mamada mi tony, muy buena interpretación de Lalo ♡
I watch BCS clips when I should be doing work too 😀 Sorry about the weird audio, I got the clips from about 100 different youtube videos lol (also idk how to make all of the clips the same volume)
Yet another instance in this video of a persistent Aphex Twin theme throughout this show.... - The use of an Aphex song when Jimmy is throwing bowling balls at Howard's car - The playing with characters' faces (e.g. the scene where Howard confronts Jimmy at the courthouse, where shortly prior we see half of Jimmy's face with its odd-looking reflection on a marble wall as he sneaks a peek around it - like any number of Aphex album covers/promos with weird mash-ups of RDJ's face) - But this, this is my new favorite. Look at the "Windowlicker" music video when RDJ arrives in his limo (around 4:18), and tell me that's not 6:53 in this video. Imbuing Lalo Salamanca, drug cartel lieutenant, with all the weird chaos of Aphex Twin. This show has been such a bizarre, and yet satisfying, fusion of different things I'd have never thought to put together.
I had to think about Windowlicker when lardo arrived at his Home when the Guard checking the SUV and Lardo opens the Window with that Big Smile on his Face
Walter White was lucky. He faced Tuco, had a close encounter with the Twins and made a deal with Hector. But there are times I think he never had a chance with Lalo Salamanca
