The final season of "Breaking Bad" was considered by many to be one of the most incredible in television history, and as the cast and crew await next year's Emmy nominations, Entertainment Weekly has released a special preview clip of Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul reading the last episode script, "Felina," for the first time.
Bryan Cranston (Walter White) and Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman) react with a mixture of awe, excitement and heavy emotion reading the final episode's script together, reciting their last lines as Cranston jokes, "So I guess there won't be a sequel. But Jesse stays alive," patting his co-star and good friend Paul on the shoulder.
"I feel sad," Paul says after finishing the script, with what appears to have been tears in his eyes as he skimmed over the last pages of the fictional life of Jesse Pinkman. "It's great.
The pair settled in at Cranston's place in Albuquerque, N.M., dining on Greek take-out while tacking "Felina" together, Cranston reading the parts of Todd and Marie while Paul read for Skyler and Lydia.
"When we got to the final page, it was just...[He takes a deep breath.]," Paul told Entertainment Weekly earlier this fall. "Usually at the end of an episode, it says, 'End of episode,' but Bryan read, 'End of series.' And that was it. We sat there and just kind of looked at each other, not knowing what to say. But I could tell both of us were just so...so happy."
"It was a moment of silence, like, wowww," Cranston said. "We were just quiet for a while, realizing that was the last time we were ever going to read a 'Breaking Bad' script. And then we looked at each other. There are people that you work with and you hope you would stay in touch with, and I know I'll be a friend of Aaron's forever."
A camera crew filming a documentary on the making of the final episode captured this moment between Cranston and Paul, and you can watch the full reading and more behind-the-scenes footage on "Breaking Bad: The Complete Series" (Nov. 26), which will include all 62 episodes 55 hours of special features.
Click here to watch the exclusive clip of Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul reading the finale script together.
