Breaking Bad extremely playful on set, with Aaron Paul describing him as "a kid trapped in a man's body". Gilligan originally intended for Aaron Paul's character, Jesse Pinkman, to be killed at the end of "Breaking Bad"s first season in a botched drug deal as a plot device to plague Walter White with guilt. However, Gilligan said by the second episode of the season, he was so impressed with Paul's performance that "it became pretty clear early on that would be a huge, colossal mistake, to kill off Jesse". Donna Nelson, a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Oklahoma, checked
Aaron Paul did voiceover narration in a Mazda commercial. In 2016, Paul began playing Eddie Lane, a man who in a crisis of faith joins a cult, in the Hulu series "The Path". "The Path" debuted on March 30, 2016. Paul voiced the main protagonist, Nyx Ulric, in "" released in July 2016. In June 2018, Paul joined the cast of the upcoming Apple crime-thriller drama series "Are You Sleeping" opposite Octavia Spencer and Lizzy Caplan. In September 2018, Paul joined the cast HBO science-fiction series "Westworld" for the third season of the series. Aaron Paul became engaged to Lauren Parsekian in