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Aaron Paul and Netflix have a very strained relationship. With Netflix distributing the actor’s 2019 movieEl Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie,Aaron Paul is still not happy with the way the streaming giant handles money and fair pay.
As per a report, theNeed for Speedactor stated that even though their iconic seriesBreaking Badhas been streaming on Netflix for years now, they still haven’t paid Aaron Paul. Warning that it is now time to pay off the debt, fans get an ominous sense of warning from the actor!
Aaron Paul Warns Netflix To Pay Up Their Price For Streaming
Breaking Badchanged the world by depicting the story of a professor fighting cancer and drug lords at the same time. Having a slow pace throughout the show, the AMC drama worked as a slow burner that intensified as the stakes got higher and higher with each season and each villain.
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The series got a heavy rating of 9.5/10 on IMDB and 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and became the talk of the town as soon as it aired. With Bryan Cranston in the lead role of Walter White aka Heisenberg and Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, the duo became one of the most recognizable duos. With 5 seasons to its name, the series has been streaming on Netflix for quite some time now butAaron Paulhasn’t forgotten.
In an interview, the actor talked about his support for the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike and how he hasn’t been paid any money even though Netflix has been airingBreaking Bad.
“I don’t get a piece from Netflix on Breaking Bad to be totally honest and that’s insane to me. I think a lot of these streamers know that they have been getting away with not paying people a fair wage and now it’s time to pony up.”
As if this wasn’t enough to rally the people, Aaron Paul’s co-star and the lead of the series, Bryan Cranston also weighed in on the SAG-AFTRA strike.
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Joining alongside Paul is Bryan Cranston as the actor is completely different than his on-screen character of Walter White. Stating that Netflix and Sony Pictures are not villains, Cranston stated that he only wants them to see reality.
“We’re not making them the enemy. They are not villains. These are people that we all will be working with once again at some point. We just want them to see reality.”
With the SAG-AFTRA strike underway and Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul at the vanguard,Breaking Badis available to stream on Netflix in the U.S.
Source:Twitter
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
