![]() ![]() ![]() They weren’t afraid to change these characters and they suffered from their consequences and the actions around them. “Each episode ended on such a cliffhanger and you just found yourself lying in bed at night saying ‘Well, maybe I can do one more episode.’ It was also a show that you watched every character evolve. “The writers didn’t hold back any punches, and they really knew how to format a story in a beautiful way,” he said. The affection that the show’s fanbase has for its morally flawed cast of characters, though, means that Jesse, Walter, et al will remain fixtures in their minds for years and decades to come.įor Paul, it’s a sign of great writers and the ability to draw viewers into Breaking Bad’s world from the get-go that made it such a special show. El Camino, then, brings down the curtain on Paul’s time as a character he has “lived and breathed as”. Save for a possible cameo in Breaking Bad spin-off prequel Better Call Saul, Paul confirmed that Jesse’s story is now complete. ![]() I sensed something was wrong, but I got on a plane and, when I landed, he’d died. ![]() “I had just spoken with him and he had seen the film - he had just watched it - and he was so proud of it and of me. Reflecting on his memories of his dear friend, a somber Paul admitted that Forster’s death came as a bolt out of the blue. That sequence with Forster was made all the more poignant when, on the day El Camino arrived to Netflix, the J ackie Brown and The Descendants actor passed away after he lost his battle with brain cancer. You find yourself laughing at such inappropriate things in Breaking Bad and El Camino, so it’s a lot of fun.” He does such a great job at taking you down such an intense, dramatic journey, but he also peppers in a lot of well thought out humor. He does still obviously have a lot of fight left in him - that’s what the movie is all about - but that humor is all about Vince. “You’ve got to give this guy something so that he’s not 100% broken. “I think it’s incredibly important ,” Paul said. In such a thematically dark film, punctuating the seriousness of his predicament with laugh-out-loud moments was also in keeping with the dark comedy Breaking Bad fans have come to know and love from show creator Vince Gilligan. When quizzed on this aspect of Jesse, Paul agreed that it was vital that Jesse’s humor was on display at various junctures in El Camino. His wise-cracking retort aimed at Ed - played by the late Robert Forster - during El Camino’s superb vacuum store scene, or even his ingenious reply while being held at gunpoint by Neil Kandy in Todd’s apartment, were microcosms of this part of his persona. Having endured more than his share of scarring events, it was satisfying to see that Jesse hadn’t lost any of the foolhardy bravado that made him a defining character of the last decade in TV. Whether it was taking a physical beating from the likes of psychotic drug kingpin Tuco Salamanca or DEA agent Hank Schrader, the emotional devastation of seeing two of his girlfriends die, or even the mental torture sustained under Walter, Jesse was put through the mill before his eventual escape in the iconic Breaking Bad finale “Felina.” I think he has learned to survive throughout the years.”Īnd survive he has. “When you first meet him, he doesn’t know what’s going on, you know? The moment that he connects with Walter White, though, his life is turned upside down. “I think he’s just been beaten for so long,” Paul admitted to Polygon at a roundtable interview in London. Instead of being an innate part of his personality, Jesse’s traumatic experiences throughout Breaking Bad’s five seasons became the platform on which he built up his survival skills. Jesse’s survival instincts don’t come naturally to him, according to El Camino star Aaron Paul. Get revenge on the men responsible for his enslavement under Uncle Jack’s Neo-nazi gang and scoop up the rest of Todd’s money? You bet. Convince Ed Galbraith, aka the Disappearer, to get him out of Albuquerque and give him a new identity? An eventual victory. Talk his way into taking a $250,000 share of Todd’s stashed cash at gunpoint? No problem. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is a story about Jesse Pinkman’s survival.Įvade the cops with the help of his friends Skinny Pete and Badger? Check. ![]()
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