If you're anything like us, you're likely still smarting from the sting of Sunday night's Breaking Bad finale. Sure, the thought of Jesse getting a second chance at making a life on the straight and narrow is about as happy an ending as one could expect. But knowing that we'll never watch Walter and Jesse cook up another batch of their blue-hued product—or witness them harness the power of any more magnets, bitches—is enough to make even the most recent of Breaking Bad fans a little depressed.
Just as all good things must come to an end, they also must start at the beginning. For many of Breaking Bad's stars, that beginning came decades ago, in roles you may have forgotten about completely, or never even knew existed. In honor of five seasons' worth of television greatness, and in anticipation of their (hopefully) great projects yet to come, we're taking a look back at some of the earliest roles of our favorite Breaking Bad actors. These are Breaking Bad Stars: Then and Now.
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