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Total Film
Total Film
Entertainment
Megan Garside

Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan says testing an episode of his X-Files spin-off made him swear he would "never freaking do that again," and he still doesn't know how Breaking Bad tested

Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in Breaking Bad.

One of the most humbling experiences as a filmmaker has to be screening a movie or TV shows to an audience, and no one knows that better than Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan, who was put off test-screenings for life after his '00s X-Files spin-off.

"We had a spin-off show of The X-Files called The Lone Gunmen, which I was very proud of, and I still have a soft spot for it," said Gilligan to Sony. "I had to sit through audience testing on the first episode of that show, and I swore on the graves of my forefathers, I will never freaking do that again."

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