And it’s the sort of role Plemons remains most eager to play. It is the definition of a scene-stealing performance: unexpected, profoundly strange, impossible to turn your eyes from.
In “ Breaking Bad” and now “ El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie,” Plemons perfects the role, as he once described it, of “the guy that you would not expect to shoot someone.” His Todd Alquist, the cold-blooded white supremacist gang member who imprisons and tortures “El Camino’s” hero, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), also listens to yacht rock, collects snow globes and paints his apartment in perky pastels.
