Aaron Paul
Aaron Paul
Aaron Paul Sturtevant, known as Aaron Paul, is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Jesse Pinkman in the AMC series Breaking Bad, for which he won several awards, including the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. This made him the only actor to win the latter category three times,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth27 August 1979
CityEmmett, ID
CountryUnited States of America
There's the really angry drunk, who's just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and is being completely inappropriate. Or the super-loud, happy drunk, which is evidentially what I am.
I have had viewers that come up to me, and they're, like, "You know, we used to watch ('Breaking Bad') as a family, and once the melted body came falling through the ceiling, my mom was just, like, 'I can't watch this show anymore. This is just way too disturbing for me.' So it's not for everybody.
It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.
I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.
I filmed myself drunk, just to see what I'm like. I watched so many funny videos of people drunk on YouTube.
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.
My end goal is just to do projects at the end of the day that I'm proud of.
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.
I'm obsessed with concerts.
I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
I'm a character actor.