If something seemed familiar in the first episode of the new season of "Breaking Bad" -- and we don't just mean the pointed jab at ABC laws in Virginia -- maybe you recognized former Richmonder Holly Rice in an extended cameo.
Rice, a teacher and administrator in Chesterfield public schools for 20 years, played a teacher in the Emmy-winning show, too. In the school-assembly scene in which Walter White (played by the episode's director, Bryan Cranston) uncomfortably attempts to cast a major plane crash in a positive light, Rice is seen standing next to him with a concerned look on her face. She plays the blonde teacher in the light-colored sweater, and is visible for much of the scene.
Rice is the longtime companion, as they used to say, of the show's creator, Vince Gilligan. Gilligan, who wrote this episode, often slips references to Rice into his scripts. Most obviously, the baby born last season to the characters played by Cranston and Anna Gunn is named Holly.
Gilligan is also from the Richmond area, which explains that pointed jab at the ABC laws.
Full disclosure (do blogs even need full disclosure?): Rice and Gilligan are friends of this blogger.
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