Neither has Aaron Paul.
So the question is a perfectly natural one: Is Aaron Paul really done with Jesse Pinkman?
Every moment that we saw, I created in my crazy head.
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I feel so connected to him.
Because he could always come back in one way or another.
Its okay to walk away from it, Paul recounts.
I would go home and spend time in very sketchy alleyways to scare the shit out of myself.
I wanted to know what that world was like …
But a couple of years of just living in that characters skin was a little much.
I mean, I was having dreamsasJesse.
Its kind of like, dont bite the hand that feeds you, says Paul.
Im so proud of that show and it was just such a cultural phenomenon.
Its hard for me to just leave it in the past.
I dont want to leave it in the past.
It was so perfect.
A version of this story originally appeared inEntertainment Weeklyissue #1405, on newsstands now.
