‘Breaking Bad’ Creator Vince Gilligan Finally Explains Why Lydia Took Her Tea Like That
Lydia Rodarte-Quayle (Laura Fraser) from “Breaking Bad” took her Chamomile tea with soy milk and a ton of Stevia. Ew.
Our friends at HuffPo finally found out why the key character drank what sounds like the nastiest hot beverage in modern TV history — an unanswered question that has hung around well into the “Better Call Saul” run. To get to the bottom of Lydia’s gross concoction — something no normal tea drinker could ever actually do — one reporter went straight to the source.
“Oh, I actually put milk in chamomile tea,” series creator Vince Gilligan told HuffPo. “A lot of people don’t, though, I guess. I guess you’re right. No, I don’t think there was any hidden message there.