Aaron Paul has admitted that he struggled to film the season three finale of Breaking Bad.
In the episode, Paul's character Jesse appeared to shoot Gale (David Costabile) in an attempt to save himself and Walt (Bryan Cranston).
"I have such a personal connection to Jesse, and I get a little sad when he goes through these emotions," Paul told Fancast. "I live through these emotions through Jesse. It was devastating for me."
He continued: "From the beginning of season three, he was trying to convince himself - maybe he did believe it, maybe he didn't - that he was the bad guy. And throughout this season he had so much guilt and burden because of the loss of his girl.
"So much stuff has been going on in this last season, and it all builds up to Jesse making the decision, 'Am I going to do this?'. He doesn't obviously want to but he knows that he has to. So, and [creator] Vince [Gilligan] has said this before, I think it's officially a loss of innocence in a way."
However, Paul revealed that he likes the way Jesse has evolved over the course of the series.
"You rarely see a show that's constantly changing, and all the characters within the show are constantly transforming into different people within themselves," he said. "And it's such a dream job, because you're playing a different person within that person, within that same shell.
"You're a product of your own environment, you're a product of your own situations that you go through, and they really focus on that. Something happens to that character and it affects them. It doesn't just happen and now they're the same person."
The fourth season of Breaking Bad is expected to premiere in July 2011.
Source: digitalspy
