10 Things Aaron Paul Can't Live Without | GQ

I don't really know what this thing is other than a really beat up up looking teddy bear I mean look at this thing why would you not want this what's up GQ I'm Aaron Paul and these are my 10 Essentials my favorite prop that I own from Breaking Bad this pink teddy bear was introduced in the first episode of the second season it kind of just kind of popped up throughout the entire second season and it quickly became my favorite prop that I wanted to steal they wouldn't let me steal it but Vince Gilligan our fearless leader of the show knew that this was my favorite one and when we wrap the Series Vince surprised me with this This Charming little guy once I got my eye on this pink teddy bear in the second season I realized that I was gonna try to steal a lot of from that show I won't talk about what I stole because I don't want Sony and AMC to know that I have it sorry a pair of car keys why they're essential is this car I actually picked up on my very first date with my wife Lauren you know we met at a music festival we had our first kiss on a ferris wheel you know I started telling her that night that I was gonna marry her one day I was obsessed I hit her up and asked her if she wanted to meet me in Vegas for a dinner and a show keep it innocent and then the next day pick up a car and uh drive it back and so we went had the best night of our Lives we won 16 Grand at the blackjack table we then jumped into a cab told the cab driver to take us to the nearest Chapel to get married you know you think you're in Vegas it's Saturday night it's not too late you think these chapels are always open but we try to open up the doors and the doors are locked we decided maybe this was uh not in the cards for us that night anyways these car keys sort of represent our first aid and the love that we have for each other we just celebrated our 10 years of marriage to be super cheesy I just decided to see if I could get a right personalized plate for the car the first thing I I typed in was I love you and that was available that just shows you the world that we're living in like I just I can't believe that that was a available so if you see a little blue Cobra driving around with the license plate that says I love you now it's true foreign okay so this next essential item is actually a pair of meteorites and so it starts with this one this was a gift from my wife we're always looking up in the Stars you know we would just open up a bottle of wine and talk for hours while just staring up at the universe anyways one of my roommates at the time he was convinced that 2012 was the end because he was convinced that well at the end of the Mayan calendar we're gonna die I'm like you were out of your mind and so I decided to make him start believing that meteorites were slamming into our backyard in North Hollywood and it started with this one I had dug like a little crater and I put this inside of it and I put a bunch of dirt around the crater so it looked like you know it caused like an impact very Amateur hour by the way and he's like what is this and he pulls it out and he's like I knew it this is a meteorite these things are hitting the ground I'm telling you the world is ending and it's gonna this is how it's gonna end I'm like oh my God it's working like way better than I had anticipated I had to level up you know I had to go to the meteorite shop in Santa Monica I spent way too much money on this thing cut two just you know like a couple weeks later I dig a giant crater I come up with this contraption that made a very loud noise in the backyard he comes running out out of his bedroom and his boxers he then of course starts losing his mind again he's like I told you to his girlfriend they start getting in an argument cut two I'm not joking cut two about a week later I'm watching a Giants football game it goes to the local news there was footage in my backyard that was shot by my buddy's girlfriend she brought it to the news and she claimed it happened in her backyard and it made the six o'clock news and the 11 o'clock news fake news people fake news [Music] Okay so this next essential item uh was a gift from my wife it's from Tom York who's the singer of Radiohead and the reason why she gave me this is I did a fundraiser for her non-profit called kind campaign that coincided with the finale of Breaking Bad I wanted to do an event for the the public so they could be invited and watch the series finale with the entire cast and crew and we did that and we raised about 1.6 million dollars for kind campaigning kind campaign you know my wife started years and years and years ago she travels the country who talks to young girls about the effects of bullying within their school hallways so she wanted to present me with something that she knew I would really love and so she Tracked Down Tom he wrote some of the lyrics to one of my favorite songs Fake Plastic Trees and turn it into like a little art piece and then at the top it says this is especially for Aaron and a cost a million dollars 1.6 million dollars to uh be precise but who's counting this is a bracelet that my daughter actually just made me for Father's Day she's five years old and when she sits down she really sits down and focuses on things that she wants to sort of accomplish and she just loves her mommy and daddy and her brothers so much she constantly makes me things colors me things she's just such a talented young lady and I'm obsessed with her story I love you baby thank you please keep making me bracelets okay um oh to keep it in the theme of children this essential is the very first toy I bought my daughter after she was born she instantly fell in love with it it was constantly in her mouth we kind of nicknamed her bubbles because she just constantly was bubbling drooling on this thing definitely a lot of miles but is now on my bookshelf in our little Library this is a beautiful reminder you know my wife married me thinking I did not want to have kids I realized that after playing a father on a series out of New York it was the first time I allowed myself to kind of be in that headspace of becoming a dad it just sort of changed my mind and I remember sitting Lauren down I finally told her that I wanted to have kids and she didn't think she heard me right and she wanted me to repeat myself and so I did and then she just started crying anyways this is a beautiful reminder of how PM that I changed my mind sorry is it getting too heavy in here now we'll get into the lighter things bring out the booze foreign [Music] this is bottle one from our very first batch batch one it's a company that my friend Brian Cranston and I started it it sort of represents the relationship that Brian and I uh have he quickly became one of my closest friends in the world when I started shooting breaking bad he became my mentor I have just learned so much from this man on screen and off I just love the man I mean he's my son's Godfather we're very very close and when we were trying to figure out the name for the company we just couldn't beat dos Hombres it's just simple two guys you know we're Blue Collar background both him and I grew up with really no money in our pockets it's about kind of two guys showing up going to work to be honest we haven't made a single penny off of this company we only Hemorrhage money into the company we know how to do business people um but we're very proud of what we're doing so um if you like Mezcal drink some books I think it's very important for people to read I think it feeds the soul these three books were written from one of my favorite authors who also happens to be one of my best friends in the world Jedediah Jenkins this first book is called to shake the sleeping self he decided that he wanted to ride a bike from the Oregon coast to the tip of Patagonia and he did it in a year and a half he started at the exact spot that his parents ended their Journey Across America he is a proud beautiful gay man that when he started this journey he didn't really know or understand his sort of place in life because he grew up in a very religious household and his mother just was not having it leads me to his third book that is just about two this book is also amazing but I'm just now starting this book it's not out yet but it follows a journey between him and his mother Across America in a car trying to see if they can survive their own differences and I just started it and it's just so beautiful I'm just so proud of this guy so I had to bring it my Leica Q2 I would not consider myself a photographer by any means I'm not pretending to be one but I needed a nice camera once I started having babies this thing comes with me uh everywhere that my kids are I'm obsessed with them and also encourages me to print out photos I don't like having things just kind of live on my phone or in the cloud I like to take photos and try to print out as many as possible I do autofocus you know there you go oh my God I missed you there you go perfect yeah it's great and it just makes you look like you know what you're doing yeah this next essential item is a candle I burn too many candles there's candles burning and pretty much every room of my house I travel with candles I always travel with candles and music it's just a must for me typically it is a diptyque and so I always go in there and come out with an embarrassing amount of bags my wife she makes fun of me constantly but [Music] all right G Cube that's it thank you so much for watching foreign

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Length: 11min 18sec (678 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 12 2023