In 2018, Entertainment Weekly organized a reunion of the cast and crew of "Breaking Bad" to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its premiere, including a series of talks about the show and its legacy. At one point during one of those talks, the subject of fan hatred for Skyler came up, prompting Anna Gunn to recall the first time she learned of fan backlash against her character, via an audience question posed during a Q&A panel.
"It was fairly early on [in the show's run] that a guy stood up and said, 'Why is your character such a b****? I mean, Walt is working and he's doing this for his family.' He was so clearly firmly with Walt and thought Skyler was just this awful, nagging person," Gunn said. "That was one of the first moments where it came right to me and it was shocking. I think we were all kind of shocked."
Gunn recalled then proceeding to lay out all of Walt's criminal actions up to that point, and the degree to which they endangered his family, concluding by turning the question back at the fan. "'She's trying to keep the children safe. And because she's telling him to stop doing that, you have a problem with her? That makes her a b****?' It drew a round of applause from the audience. But there it was. I thought, 'That's so interesting.'"
