The first five episodes of season 4 You are currently running on Netflix. The final, second part of the serial killer series will follow on March 9, 2023. Penn Badgley, who grew up as an actor with Gossip Girl, plays the stalker and murderer Joe Goldberg in what is probably his most famous role to date. But Almost everything would be very different with a Breaking Bad casting 15 years ago came.
Netflix’ You star Penn Badgley almost played Jesse in Breaking Bad
In the course of You season 4, Penn Badgely is doing a lot of interviews again. In it he recently criticized Netflix serial killer obsession, but now also revealed that he once had one today world famous Breaking Bad role slipped through the fingers:
Breaking Bad was [ein Vorsprechen], which I was close to. In the screen tests, it was Decision between me and Aaron Paul. […] It was one of the best TV scripts I had read up to that point. That was the one role that eluded me.
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You star Penn Badgley instead of Aaron Paul in Breaking Bad
There’s no question that Aaron Paul went down in TV history with his hugely popular role on Breaking Bad. He even made Jesse Pinkman his own so much that the part, which was initially only intended for a few episodes, rose to co-star alongside Walter White. Nevertheless, the mind game is interesting: What if Penn Badgley then Surcharge as Jesse would have received? Would Breaking Bad have been a different series?
If today’s You star had been cast in Breaking Bad in 2008, it probably would have also changed Gossip Girl. Because the series ran from 2007 to 2012 and would probably have had to do without one of its most important main characters with Penn Badgley.
Netflix’s serial killer hit You reinvents itself in season 4 – but is that a good thing?
Season 4 You has been available on Netflix since February 9, 2023. Serial killer Joe Goldberg fled to Europe and is being hunted by another killer. Hendrik Busch and Lisa Ludwig talk about everything that has changed in You 4 and whether the season is worth it.
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In the second part of the podcast we classify the changes and give an outlook with theories about the finale. We’re also discussing whether the criticism of You gets more fodder as a result of the changed formula of the series.
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