Breaking Bad is back at last on Sunday, for the first of the final eight episodes of the show. As much as the acclaimed series has told the story of Walter White, it has also charted the story of Jesse Pinkman, Walt’s young accomplice, who has had his own massive struggles throughout the series. I sat down with Aaron Paul to discuss playing Jesse, how he’s evolved through the years and where he might be going as the end begins for Breaking Bad.
IGN TV: These final episodes are technically the second half of Season 5, but you also had a break in production before you shot them. Knowing that it was the end, did you kind of like that you had that time away, or did part of you just want to go into those final episodes?
Aaron Paul: Not at all. I was very happy to have that time off and to stretch it out as long as possible. It was weird doing the first day -- that was the first time heading to set where we knew where the finish line was. So we were really trying to just soak in every moment. In doing that, it seemed like the season just flew by. Yeah, we wanted to make it last as long as possible.
IGN: I know you guys have to keep your secrets about the plot points...
Paul: Oh, no, no, no, not at all. What do you want to know?
IGN: Oh, okay, so episode four...
Paul: [Laughs]
Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad.
IGN: No, but at the end of the midseason finale, Jesse was as out as he’s ever been. But obviously you’re still on the show. I would assume that Jesse at this point though is completely unhappy to be pulled back into Walter White’s world at all after everything that’s happened?
Paul: Yeah, who knows how far he gets into his world, but we all know that the last time we saw Jesse was when Walt’s dropping off the money at his house. Jesse knows that he was behind all the murders in the prisons, and he’s utterly just terrified of the man. He armed himself, and he was ready to protect himself if he had to. He’s scared, he’s terrified. It’s a bit of a dicey situation he’s in.
IGN: I was at the live reading of the Breaking Bad pilot script the other day, as were you. As great as it was to see the different actors interpretation, it was also kind of cool to re-hear that first script and go back to the beginnings of those characters and how they first interacted. At this point, is Jesse both frightened for his life but also amazed that Walter White is the person he’s become frightened of?
Paul: Oh, absolutely. Jesse is easily manipulated by Walt, and so there’s a lot of times where the wool has been pulled over Jesse’s eyes in a way. Yeah, he’s just seeing a man transform into the devil, just an evil, evil, evil human being. He realizes that everything up to that point was almost a lie. More and more things are being revealed to him. What Walt has done in the past is -- he’s just been lying to him constantly. He’s like a master puppeteer when it comes to toying with Jesse. Jesse’s just on one of his strings.
Aaron Paul in Breaking Bad.
IGN: Meanwhile, there are still these huge smoking guns that Jesse doesn’t know about at all. To you is there one that is the biggest? There are so many big ones.
Paul: There are so many big ones. Going into this final season, we only have eight episodes left to tell the story, and we all know how it all ended last season, so that’s a lot to cram into eight episodes. Who knows what things will be revealed and what things won’t be. But me personally, as a fan of the show, as someone who’s been playing Jesse for many years, you know, he poisoned Brock -- Jesse was right about that all along. He allowed Jane to die. He’s done so many horrendous acts. Me personally, I want Jesse to find out about all of those things, but then I don’t know; what would that do to him? Maybe it’s best that he’s kinda left in the dark, but I don’t know.
IGN: Jesse has seen a lot of terrible things, he’d experienced a lot of terrible things, and he had to do a lot of terrible things. Clearly though, that kid being shot crossed a line Jesse couldn’t look past. Was it maybe seeing it happen so directly?
Paul: It’s not even that. It’s just yet another person dies under their watch. It’s because of what they’re doing that these people are dying. Now, they’re messing with kids -- another kid. So he’s done. That was his straw that broke the camel’s back. He wanted to get out of it before, but now it’s just no. He’s done... maybe. [Laughs]
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