Actress Anna Gunn can currently be seen on AMC’s "Breaking Bad," on which she plays Skyler, the wife of a cancer-stricken science teacher. What Skyler doesn’t know, however, is that her husband is making methamphetamine — crystal meth — to pay the bills. Here Gunn opens up to wOw.

wOw: You know, Anna, you and I have something in common.

ANNA GUNN: What?

wOw: We were both born in Ohio and our families both relocated to Santa Fe, NM.

ANNA: Come on. Are you serious?

wOw: Yes. I was born in Cincinnati and my family later moved to Santa Fe.

ANNA: So you grew up in Santa Fe?

wOw: No. I grew up in Ohio. They left after I went to college.

ANNA: Oh, I see. But they’re there now?

wOw: Yes.

ANNA: Crazy. Do they like it?

wOw: They love it.

ANNA: Do you like it?

wOw: It’s a nice place to visit maybe for a week or two, but I really don’t think I could ever live there. Could you?

ANNA: Well, I moved there when I was eight. And the first, I’d say, half a year I was looking around like, “What is this? Are you kidding? What is happening here?” But I have to say there was an amazing school there and it’s a beautiful place to live. I love skiing and I played soccer and I went hiking and camping and all that great stuff, and that was wonderful. So I really loved growing up there, but when I was ready to apply to colleges I said, “I want to get out and go to a big city.” But I like being back there to film.

wOw: Was that part of the reason why you took the role in "Breaking Bad," because you were so familiar with New Mexico?

ANNA: No. It just was a strange coincidence. My friend Sharon Bialy cast it and I went in to read and she said, “Well, get ready to go to New Mexico.” But Albuquerque is a very different place than Santa Fe.

wOw: Yes.

ANNA: I had really never spent any time in Albuquerque except to fly in and out of the airport. But when I decided, I said, “OK, this is a great job and I have to do it.” It certainly didn’t hurt that my parents are still there.

wOw: Great.

ANNA: And I’m happy to be able to give my girls the experience of summers there and doing a lot of the things that I did growing up.

wOw: So what drew you to "Breaking Bad"?

ANNA: It was the script. When you get right down to it, it was the words. It read like one of the best independent movies I’d ever seen. What was there on the page intrigued me so much: the sensibility of it, the fact that the show’s creator, Vince Gilligan, just flip-flops back and forth with such dexterity between well-observed and heart-wrenching drama to searing and uproarious comedy. He just really turns on a dime with that. And I really liked how all the characters were drawn, and I liked Skyler, but I felt that in the pilot I also had some questions about what might develop with her and who she was beyond what I saw on the page.

wOw: Speaking of Skyler, she’s a bit of an enigma. The viewer knows that she’s thinking a lot, but she doesn’t really say that much. So what’s your take on her as a character? How would you describe Skyler?