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After theBreaking Badcast got together with an expletive-heavy reunion at the2024 SAG Awards, fans have been sharing an old viral moment in which starAaron Paulrevealed how often they could swear per season.
“You can’t go anywhere in the world without people yelling out, ‘Bitch,’” O’Brien joked in the resurfaced late-night clip, referring to the word of choice for Paul’s character Jesse.
“All day, every day, wherever I’m at,” Paul added.
“It’s so funny, Vince Gilligan, the creator ofBreaking Bad,sent out this note that he got,” Paul said. “He just laughed at it, because we were allowed to say as many ‘bitch’es as you wanted, we had six ‘s—s’ per year, … and one ‘f—’. But only one.”
“I had a year like that once,” O’Brien interjected in the clip, to laughter from Paul and the rest of his audience.
Skipping ahead to 2024, Paul and the rest of his former co-stars, including Cranston, Mitte, Gunn, Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks,Dean Norrisand Betsy Brandt appeared onstage at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles Saturday topresent the night’s award for best ensemble in a drama television series, representing 10 years since the group won the same award themselves.
“We’re thrilled to bestow it on another group of actors,” Cranston, 67, said during the ceremony, before beginning their curse-laden bit as the cast tried to spell out the word “ensemble.”
“Ensemble - the E stands for the excellence that each cast member brings to every exciting episode,” Gunn, 55, said during the bit.
“And the letter N. N stands for no, no f—ing way I’m going to do this cheesy thing where you say each letter of the word. I’m not doing it,” Odenkirk, 61, joked.
“I think we have to, it’s on the teleprompter,” Paul, 44, responded, before Norris, 60, jumped in to say, “Teleprompter my ass. I got a beer and a couple shots backstage, so let’s get this thing going.”
“Bob’s right,” Mitte, 31, said. “My grandmother wouldn’t even put this on a pillow, it’s so cheesy.”
“Listen, you guys. I don’t mean to start T for trouble, but what do you think SAG would do to us if we didn’t do this?” Brandt, 50, joked, referring to the Screen Actors Guild hosting the ceremony.
“[SAG] can’t fire us, so f— ‘em,” Banks, 77 joked, with Cranston finishing, “That’s the true ensemble spirit.”
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Breaking Badis streaming in full on Netflix.
source: people.com
