Penn Badgley Was Almost Cast as Jesse Pinkman in ‘Breaking Bad’
Penn Badgley revealed that he was close to landing the role of Jesse Pinkman on #BreakingBad: “ 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.” https://t.co/RdkiUgOoEd pic.twitter.com/2W8C8HXa6A
- IndieWire (@IndieWire) February 18, 2023
He admitted that the role of 'Jesse Pinkman' is the ultimate “one that got away” in terms of roles.
“One I got so close on was ‘Breaking Bad.’ 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.”
“Breaking Bad” premiered in 2008, just a few months after “Gossip Girl” debuted in 2007.
Badgley’s “Gossip Girl” co-star Chace Crawford revealed in 2019 that Badgley was up for both parts of Jesse Pinkman and Dan Humphrey simultaneously. He didn’t even test for ‘Gossip Girl’, they offered it to him.
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