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Penn Badgley virtually received a style of “Blue Sky.”
The You star, 36, mirrored on “a bunch” of roles he auditioned for however by no means received, together with the character of Jesse Pinkman in AMC’s Breaking Bad, as he performed with puppies throughout an interview with Buzzfeed.
“One I got close on was Breaking Bad,” recounted Badgley. “It was between me and Aaron Paul, we tested. And actually, that was the best television script I’d read at that point. That was the one that got away.”
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The function finally went to Paul, 43, who performed the aspiring crystal meth entrepreneur alongside Bryan Cranston’s Walter White for the whole lot of the drama’s five-season run from 2008 to 2013.
He received three Emmy Awards and acquired three different nominations for his efficiency as Paul, in addition to a Golden Globe nomination.
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Cranston, 66, and Paul reprised their roles for the 2019 Netflix epilogue film El Camino and final 12 months’s sixth and closing season of the spin-off Better Call Saul. They additionally revisited the characters for a PopCorners advert “Breaking Good” throughout this month’s Super Bowl LVII.
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Paul beforehand spoke to PEOPLE about returning to the Breaking Bad universe for the industrial. “It’s so easy to kind of zip on that skin again. It’s just like revisiting a very familiar friend,” he stated.
Cranston added: “We had so much fun shooting it. Just getting back into those characters and seeing all the familiar faces. We fit like a glove.”
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Although it was a enjoyable reunion, followers should not get their hopes up for extra Walter and Jesse sooner or later. “I feel like this is sort of where we all kind of hang our hats, at least with the Breaking Bad universe,” stated Paul. “And what a fun way to go out.”
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Badgley can presently be seen partially 1 of You season 4, now streaming on Netflix. Part 2 premieres March 9.
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