If you haven’t at least heard of critically-acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad, just where have you been for the past 15 years?
The show entertained audiences through five seasons and although it took some time to gain popularity, streaming service Netflix picked up the series and watched as it exploded into the mainstream.
The leads of the show - Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul - played Walter White and Jesse Pinkman respectively. Their characters butted heads throughout the series’ entire run, but that wasn’t something that happened behind-the-scenes.
Speaking with Esquire, Paul opened up about the relationship and friendship he shared with his co-star, from the very first moment they met.
He explained: “I instantly fell in love with this man. He’s impossible not to love. Impossible!”
“He became one of my closest friends - my mentor - very early on. Someone I can confide in. And when [Breaking Bad] was done, it was a very hard goodbye. A lot of times when you're doing a show, a film, a play, it's like you're going away to summer camp. You've become best friends with these people and you think, oh, we're going to be ride-or-dies until the end and then you go your separate ways.
“You get back into your day to day normal life and you realise, oh, it's hard to stay in touch.”
Though it’s a gorgeous friendship that blossomed, it’s an emotional reality that those who form such incredible bonds on the sets of shows which run for many years, that one day, they will be forced apart and be unable to share as many awesome moments together in the future.
Fortunately, both Cranston and Paul have enjoyed huge waves of success ever since Breaking Bad came to a close.
Cranston has appeared in the likes of Showtime's Your Honor and the 2017 rebooted Power Rangers movie, whilst Paul can be heard voicing one of the characters in animated Netflix series BoJack Horseman and, was even the central focus of a Breaking Bad spinoff movie.
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