For a lot of fans, Jesse Pinkman feels less like a TV character and more like a friend we watched suffer for five brutal seasons. For Aaron Paul, that feeling is even stronger. He’s said more than once that stepping back into Jesse’s shoes was like “revisiting an old friend,” and that living in Jesse’s broken headspace took a real emotional toll he couldn’t just shake off at the end of the day.
Behind the scenes, Paul poured himself into Jesse. Interviews and fan retrospectives describe how he carried the character’s trauma home with him, especially in later seasons when Jesse is tortured, manipulated and drowning in guilt.
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