Penn Badgley Was Almost Cast as Jesse Pinkman in ‘Breaking Bad’

[hewontgo]

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
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Comments

[xellabelle]

I’m taking this opportunity to bring back pfunk…what a time lol

every time you lot start talking about penn badgley again all i can ever think about is his posts on an old incubus forum under the username pfunk pic.twitter.com/4OH5DkIaSI
- jorginho stan account (@DAVlDBYNCH) January 11, 2020

[littleorcs]

omg this just reminded me of Penn x Zoe Kravitz

[xellabelle]

He truly likes to date the real Serena VDWs of the world

[beuk]

We were all just saying whatever on forums back then.

[bitterblueb]

Eh the right decision was made tbh

[yousaidlog]

I can't imagine anyone but Aaron in that role

[hypermuseic9]

Aaron was perfect. Penn simply doesn’t have the range sorry to say

[tonicol]

I remember reading Jesse was supposed to die in the first season but they kept him because they liked Aaron, maybe it would've been different with Penn or other actor, the whole show would have changed.