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Penn Badgley was dangerously close to becoming the great Heisenberg’s partner-in-crime.

The 36-year-old You star recently reflected on “a bunch” of roles he auditioned for but never got, including the character of Jesse Pinkman in AMC‘s Breaking Bad, as he played with puppies during an interview with Buzzfeed.

“One I got close on was Breaking Bad,” recounted Badgley. “It was between me and Aaron Paul, we tested. And actually, that was the best television script I’d read at that point. That was the one that got away.”

The role ultimately went to Paul, who played the aspiring crystal meth entrepreneur alongside Bryan Cranston‘s Walter White for the entirety of the drama’s five-season run from 2008 to 2013.

He won three Emmy Awards and received three other nominations for his performance as Pinkman, as well as a Golden Globe nomination.

Cranston and Paul reprised their roles for the 2019 Netflix epilogue movie El Camino and last year’s sixth and final season of the spin-off Better Call Saul. They also revisited the characters for a PopCorners commercial “Breaking Good” during this month’s Super Bowl LVII.

Although it was fun to see the duo return to their characters, fans shouldn’t get their hopes up for more Walter and Jesse in the future. “I feel like this is sort of where we all kind of hang our hats, at least with the Breaking Bad universe,” said Paul. “And what a fun way to go out.”

Badgley can currently be seen in Part 1 of You Season 4, which is now streaming on Netflix. Part 2 premieres on March 9.