It should come in handy as Mando advances his own career as a director and producer. I think they (creators Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould and their team) have written an incredible iconoclastic character and, at the same time, I had the privilege to be able to read the scripts and analyze the scripts, and come to set without having to work, and (instead) just watch these incredible writers and directors and producers, and soak up as much as I could.” “I love the character of Nacho and wouldn’t want to play anything else on that show. Mando didn’t know much about that series before taking on Nacho, but he says the last four years on Saul have been “a master class in acting, in directing, in writing from the people that I think are among the best in the business.” Mando’s life changed when he got cast - first in Breaking Bad, now returning in Saul - as Nacho Varga, henchman for an Albuquerque drug distributor also featured in Breaking Bad. He had also done guest roles on various Canadian TV shows and played recurring characters in a couple of French-language series.Īnd then came Better Call Saul, a prequel to Breaking Bad, the critically adored, Emmy-winning drama about a high school teacher turned drug kingpin. Last week he was back at that same theatre in a tuxedo once again, but this time as a co-star of the movie The Hummingbird Project, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.īefore Orphan Black, Mando - who didn’t begin acting until he was in his mid-20s - was best known for the motion-capture character Vaas Montenegro in the video game Far Cry 3. The Quebec City-born Mando, 37, shared an anecdote about how five years ago, when he was appearing in Canadian-made cult hit Orphan Black, he needed to supplement his earnings with a job as an usher at the Princess of Wales Theatre. “My real passion is to get into a position where I can be part of the creative process,” he said from the lobby of the InterContinental Toronto Centre Hotel. He even claims to love the fame part of the coaster: “I’ll never turn down a photo or an autograph, no matter how famous I continue to get.” But what he really wants to do, he says, is help “design the roller-coaster.” And with his profile growing with roles on TV’s Better Call Saul and as a villain in Marvel’s Spider-Man movie franchise, he says he’s loving the ride.
That’s how he describes the experience of being an actor.
Canadian actor Michael Mando has a seat at the front of the roller-coaster.
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