Aaron Paul Once Revealed How Many Curse Words He Could Say on Breaking Bad Before 2024 SAG Awards Reunion

After the Breaking Bad cast got together with an expletive-heavy reunion at the 2024 SAG Awards, fans have been sharing an old viral moment in which star Aaron Paul revealed how often they could swear per season.

In the resurfaced clip from January 2017, Paul, now 44, stopped by Conan O’Brien’s show to discuss just how often the cast — which also featured Bryan Cranston, R.J. Mitte, Anna Gunn, Bob Odenkirk and more — were allowed to curse per season.

“You can’t go anywhere in the world without people yelling out, ‘Bitch,’” O’Brien joked in the resurfaced late-night clip, referring to the word of choice for Paul’s character Jesse.

“All day, every day, wherever I’m at,” Paul added.

O’Brien, now 60, also noted how that particular curse word was one Paul was allowed to use on the AMC series since it was approved by censors.

“It’s so funny, Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad, sent out this note that he got,” Paul said. “He just laughed at it, because we were allowed to say as many ‘bitch’es as you wanted, we had six ‘s---s’ per year, … and one ‘f---’. But only one.”

“I had a year like that once,” O’Brien interjected in the clip, to laughter from Paul and the rest of his audience.

Skipping ahead to 2024, Paul and the rest of his former co-stars, including Cranston, Mitte, Gunn, Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Dean Norris and Betsy Brandt appeared onstage at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles Saturday to present the night's award for best ensemble in a drama television series, representing 10 years since the group won the same award themselves.

“We’re thrilled to bestow it on another group of actors,” Cranston, 67, said during the ceremony, before beginning their curse-laden bit as the cast tried to spell out the word “ensemble.”

"Ensemble - the E stands for the excellence that each cast member brings to every exciting episode," Gunn, 55, said during the bit. 

"And the letter N. N stands for no, no f---ing way I'm going to do this cheesy thing where you say each letter of the word. I'm not doing it," Odenkirk, 61, joked.

"I think we have to, it's on the teleprompter," Paul, 44, responded, before Norris, 60, jumped in to say, "Teleprompter my ass. I got a beer and a couple shots backstage, so let's get this thing going.”

“Bob's right,” Mitte, 31, said. “My grandmother wouldn't even put this on a pillow, it's so cheesy.”

“Listen, you guys. I don't mean to start T for trouble, but what do you think SAG would do to us if we didn't do this?" Brandt, 50, joked, referring to the Screen Actors Guild hosting the ceremony.

“[SAG] can't fire us, so f--- 'em,” Banks, 77 joked, with Cranston finishing, “That's the true ensemble spirit.”

Breaking Bad ran from 2008 to 2013 on AMC and took home several SAG Awards during its run, including two trophies for Cranston's leading performance in 2013 and 2014 as well as the outstanding performance by an ensemble award, also in 2014. The series also took home 16 Emmy Awards during its time on the air and sparked a spinoff series led by Odenkirk, titled Better Call Saul.

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