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Newsweek
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Aaron Paul 'Breaking Bad' Scene He Was 'Terrified' to Film—'It Was Brutal'
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Aaron Paul revealed a Breaking Bad scene he was "terrified" to film during a recent appearance on Hot Ones. Newsweek reached out to Paul's representative via email for comment on Monday. The Context Hot Ones is a chat show that was launched in 2015 and is hosted Sean Evans, who asks celebrity guests questions while they eat chicken wings. With each round, the hot sauce-coated wings get increasingly spicy. Paul, 45, rose to fame as Jesse Pinkman on the AMC series Breaking Bad, which ran for five seasons from 2008 until 2013. He later reprised his role in 2019's El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Aaron Paul attends the premiere of Netflix's "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie" at the Regency Village Theatre on October 7, 2019, in Westwood, California. Aaron Paul attends the premiere of Netflix's "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie" at the Regency Village Theatre on October 7, 2019, in Westwood, California. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images What To Know On Thursday's episode of Hot Ones, Evans asked Paul if he could name a scene from a movie or television show that he wasn't excited to film. "Sometimes I'll hear actors talk about circling days on the production calendar for scenes that they're dreading doing," Evans said. "I'm wondering when you think about the pages that you looked at that put you into a mental tailspin, does anything immediately come to mind?" "For some reason, I'm always doing roles that are just getting beat up and tortured. You know what I mean? I don't know what that says about me," Paul said, before quickly naming a scene from Breaking Bad. "There's a scene where Jesse wakes up, and his girlfriend, Jane, is dead," the Need for Speed star continued, referring to Jane Margolis, played by actress Krysten Ritter. "I was terrified to shoot that scene. "It was such a chemical romance, but he was just so in it, all in. Really felt very in love but didn't realize that she was just destroying him. I mean, they were destroying themselves together. I was very nervous to tackle that scene, and I didn't know what to do. I didn't really rehearse it, you know? I just knew I had to put myself in that position as that guy. And so, what you saw is what you saw. It was brutal." What People Are Saying Ahead of the interview, First We Feast—the media company behind Hot Ones—announced Paul as a guest via Instagram. In the comments, Krysten Ritter wrote in a message with 347 likes: "Can't WAIT to get the scoop on this." @Wackaz said in a note with more than 10,000 likes: "Aaron Paul is one of those celebs you swear has been on this show before but actually hasn't. He is the perfect candidate for Hot Ones!" @chiefkeefsbabydaddy9945, in a comment with 610 likes: "i love how he talks to the WHOLE room, he's always looking around and speaking to the people on set so they all feel included in the conversation. such a cool dude!" @trillium.3.24, in a comment with 109 likes: "Big props to Aaron for not only the awesome engagement with Sean but turning around and engaging the rest of the people in the studio. All inclusive!! Loved it!" @RIPMalice, in a post with 180 likes: "He's such a wholesome guy I love this episode. The way he said 'I don't want it to be over, Sean!' is pretty much how we all felt when the episode ended. What a champion." What Happens Next Paul's new sci-fi thriller, Ash, is currently available to watch on platforms like Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV.
San Francisco Chronicle
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
California's version of ‘The Way We Were' can be seen in SoCal and NorCal
Here are a couple of California stories — one about a fading landmark district, the other about a crooked railroad. One is a Southern California classic. The other is in San Francisco's backyard. It's always a bit of a culture shock for San Franciscans to spend time in Southern California. Maybe it's the freeways, the traffic jams, the palm trees, the Los Angelesness of the whole place. 'Look,' said my companion, 'they are selling Dodger Dogs in the gas stations.' Times never stand still in L.A. Everybody's tailgating. Slow streets? That must be one of those quaint Northern California affectations. So it was a shock to turn off Wilshire Boulevard and into Westwood Village, what one radio station once called 'the hippest place in L.A.' There was a time, and not long ago, that Westwood Village was packed with people on weekends. There were 20 movie screens, hundreds of stores and restaurants and so many cars trying to crowd into the district that automobiles were prohibited. It was right next to the UCLA campus, the ultimate college hangout. More recently the UCLA magazine featured a long piece about the heyday of hip Westwood. The title: 'The Way We Were.' That was then. Last weekend, Westwood Village was nearly deserted. Plenty of parking in the vast garages. Lots of 'For lease' signs on storefronts. The landmark Regency Village Theatre, famous since it opened in 1931 as the Fox Westwood, had a chain-link fence around it. The theater was the classic movie palace in the Golden Age of Hollywood, with a 170-foot-tall white tower, decorated with stucco lions and griffins, part Spanish colonial revival, part showbiz, all Southern California. Across the street, the smaller Bruin Theater, a streamlined moderne neon showpiece in its own right, was closed, too. A group of Hollywood heavyweights, including Chris Columbus, Bradley Cooper and Steven Spielberg, plan to reopen and revive the Regency Village Theatre, but the message is clear: San Francisco's struggling downtown is not the only district that has been affected by changing times. Meanwhile, the small Marin County city of Mill Valley will celebrate its own changing times on the Memorial Day weekend when an engine from the crookedest railroad in the world returns to town after 101 years. This was the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway, and the pride of the line was engine No. 9, which has been restored to its former glory. No. 9 is ticketed for display at Mill Valley's landmark former rail station this weekend and will be the centerpiece of the town's Memorial Day parade Monday. No. 9 will ride on a flatbed truck just behind Mill Valley's shiniest red fire truck from the Old Mill School through downtown and along Miller Avenue to Tamalpais High School. The parade starts at 11 a.m. No. 9 is the last surviving artifact of the mountain railroad which ran from Mill Valley to a terminal just below the summit of Mount Tamalpais starting in 1896. Later there was a branch line to Muir Woods. The railroad was a tourist line, pure and simple, and advertised its winding roadbed (with 281 curves in just over 8 miles) as 'the crookedest railroad in the world' and the ride 'the greatest sight-seeing trip on earth.' Engine No. 9, purchased new from the Heisler Locomotive works in 1921, was the pride of the line, the most powerful engine — a 'thoroughly modern' machine with all-wheel drive. However, it was expensive to operate, and when the railroad ran into financial difficulties in 1924, No. 9 was sold at a bargain rate to a Humboldt County lumber company for use on logging trains. But it was charmed; it survived for a century. The railroad did not. Done in by changing times, it was abandoned in 1930. But the crooked railroad lived in legend. Rail historians and a few old-timers kept the memory alive for another generation. One of the railroad's admirers was Fred Runner, who became aware of the railroad when he stopped by the West Point Inn, built by the railroad in 1904 and still in operation. 'I thought it was a good story that needed to be told,' he said. Besides the West Point Inn, one other artifact had survived: Engine No. 9, then owned by the Pacific Lumber Co. in the mill town of Scotia in Humboldt County. The old engine was sitting in a park for more than 60 years. In the meantime, the lumber industry faded, the mill closed and the old locomotive gathered rust and attracted vandals. Runner and some of his associates formed a group called Friends of No. 9, bought the engine at auction for just over $50,000, spent more than $30,000 moving it to the North Bay and close to $500,000 restoring it. 'We took out tons of rust and rebuilt it,' Runner said. Now No. 9 is in museum quality condition, down to the controls in the cab, the gauges, even the engineer's brake handle. The craftsmanship in restoring the engine was meticulous. 'It's breathtaking, honestly,' Runner said. It's not possible to operate No. 9 under steam. It's just too old. After the Memorial Day parade, No. 9 will go to a temporary home at the California Railroad Museum in Sacramento as a featured display. There's talk about a permanent display around Mount Tamalpais. But that's a discussion for another time.
Newsweek
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
'Conjuring: Last Rites' Shares First Look At Franchise Finale
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors 'The Conjuring' Universe is one of the most popular and beloved horror franchises of the modern era, sporting countless hit films and grossing over $2 billion. More Entertainment: Marvel Releases New Avengers Teaser At the center of it all is the main 'The Conjuring' series, which follows Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as real-life demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren as they investigate their most famous cases. Now, almost four movies and 12 years later, it appears that the two stars are ready to say goodbye. WESTWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 20: Patrick Wilson (L) and Vera Farmiga arrive at the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema's "Annabelle Comes Home" at Regency Village Theatre on June 20, 2019 in... WESTWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 20: Patrick Wilson (L) and Vera Farmiga arrive at the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema's "Annabelle Comes Home" at Regency Village Theatre on June 20, 2019 in Westwood, California. MoreIn an exclusive first look with Entertainment Weekly, Wilson and Farmiga reflected on their time with the franchise and each other, noting how much of a joy it was to work together. "That's just the absolutely best arranged marriage in the history of arranged marriages," Farmiga said. "I'm going to miss Patrick most of all," Farmiga continued. "I mean, not really. He's reachable within seconds on text. But I'll miss him as a fun scene partner who totally understands my kind of neurology, who vibes with my brain in a way. "I love that guy. I'm so blessed to have had him by my side. He made all of these life-zapping, exhausting exorcisms feel like a family barbecue." @entertainment_weekly The last chapter of the Warrens' story will soon begin. We have an exclusive first look at #VeraFarmiga and PatrickWilson's final haunting in 'TheConjuringLastRites. Get all the details in our latest cover story. ♬ original sound - Entertainment Weekly "I think that's why when you say, 'Can you imagine it being over?' I actually can't imagine it really because of her," Wilson said. "It really meant the world to me. I didn't think we'd be doing this for 12, 13 years. "I only know this because I have a shirt from running a race in Wilmington. It says 2012, [which is] when we shot the first one. So, yeah, I get emotional. I can't imagine not doing a movie with her." More Entertainment: Wick Is Pain – Where To Watch New John Wick Documentary The feeling about the duos chemistry was also felt by James Wan, who directed the first two 'The Conjuring' films and has since served as an executive producer. "The beating heart of this franchise is Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson playing Ed and Lorraine," Wan said. "The family dynamic, the faith the characters have, and the faith that they have in each other are really the things that drive this particular franchise. "I do think that's what people love about it. At least for me and Peter Safran, it's really about finding a way to tell the stories of these characters and to wrap them up in a way that feels respectful to where we started with them." More Entertainment: 'Squid Game' Season 3 Trailer Unveils New Deadly Games While Warner Bros. plans to continue exploring the stories of the Warrens in a television series, it will unfortunately be without Wilson and Farmiga, something Wilson isn't quite ready for. "Me and Vera do take such pride in anything with the 'Conjuring' title. I don't know what it's like to watch something that says 'Conjuring' and not be in it," Wilson said. "I don't know. That's a scary thought to me." However, Farmiga knows that this has to be the end of their time with the franchise. "It is the end of the road. It's got to be the end of the road," Farmiga explained. "I would literally explode on camera. What 'Last Rites' demanded of us physically, emotionally, mentally, stamina-wise.... It's been a long haul, man. "It's been a really, really long haul, but it's time. It is time to trade her clairvoyance in for crossword puzzles. She's going to take up some tai chi. They're going to Turks and Caicos, baby, and so am I." 'The Conjuring: Last Rites' is set to release in theaters on Sept. 5, 2025. More Entertainment: 'Monster' Season 3 Targets Ed Gein, Follows Dahmer, Menendez Cases 'Fantastic Four' Releases New Look at Unofficial Fifth Member For more 'The Conjuring' and movie news, head on over to Newsweek Entertainment.
