A former Better Call Saul actor has revealed that he is now working as an Amazon driver, while continuing to pursue acting on the side.
John Christian Love, 35, starred as Ernesto in the Breaking Bad spin-off show, but he has now posted on a Reddit thread dedicated to Amazon drivers speaking about his experience in the job.
The actor, who played the pal of Bob Odenkirk’s Saul in 11 episodes of the acclaimed crime drama, shared a smiling selfie wearing a branded Amazon gilet, sitting in a van with a stack of the company’s telltale boxes behind him.
He wrote on the thread: ‘Hey it’s me John Christian Love.
‘Just want yall to know that as the actor who brought you the character “Ernesto/Ernie” in Better Call Saul, that I too am out here delivering with you!
‘It sucks. But 1 delivery at a time. Be blessed out there!’
The post has garnered hundreds of comments and thousands of upvotes on the platform, with the top question underneath asking how the Better Call Saul role was not a good platform to continue acting.
Love, who said he has also worked for FedEx and UPS in the US, replied explaining that he hasn’t stopped acting, writing: ‘I haven’t given up on it, just really slow right now. And BCS wasn’t the breakout I was hoping.’
He then added: ‘Did a significant film working opposite Lily Gladstone/Bryan Cranston but film ran out of money and I was never paid.’
Cranston has previously addressed the money woes on the indie film Lone Wolf, after Deadline reported that filming had come to an abrupt halt following a shortfall in funding.
The Breaking Bad star shared a statement with the publication, in which he vowed not to finish work on the film or promote it until financing issues were sorted and cast and crew were paid in full.
‘I’m distressed that this has caused so much grief and distrust, and so sorry that this crew (which was fantastic) were not treated with the respect they deserved,’ Cranston said in the statement last summer.
Elsewhere on the Reddit thread, Love was asked about his residuals from Better Call Saul and said they amounted to ‘$100 here and there’.
He also spoke about working with Odenkirk on Better Call Saul and said: ‘Great guy, very hard worker, was memorising a full episodic script every 9 days or so and then doing standup on weekends, etc… nothing bad to say.’
Better Call Saul is available to watch on Netflix.
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