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He didn't show up on set soaked in alcohol, mind you, but for Smashed - the compelling, careening indie about a Los Angeles couple wed to each other, and wed to the bottle - there was research to be done. And Paul, a diligent actor who has won two Emmys for playing Jesse Pinkman, the meth-head protégé of Bryan Cranston's Walter White in AMC's Breaking Bad, felt he needed weekly vacation rentals clearwater florida to investigate what being smashed weekly vacation rentals clearwater florida was all about.
"I'll have an occasional beer or two, you know, but never like getting plowed all the time," explains Paul. And so, to play Charlie, an idle rich kid married to Mary Elizabeth Winstead's Kate - a schoolteacher who regularly arrives in class seriously hungover - he took to the booze. But never during the shoot, he wants to make clear. Smashed , which premiered last month at the Toronto International Film Festival, opens Friday at the Ritz Five and Rave Motion Pictures at the Ritz Center/NJ.
"Before weekly vacation rentals clearwater florida we shot, I found myself drinking a lot," says Paul, who is a boyish, weekly vacation rentals clearwater florida keen-eyed 33. "And then I just filmed myself drinking. . . . I wanted to go as far as I could, because I wanted to be as honest as possible. I'm not afraid to admit it."
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"I was a little apprehensive, weekly vacation rentals clearwater florida because I didn't want to do another substance-abuse story while I was doing Breaking Bad ," he says. "But then I read it, and I thought it was just so honest, and then I sat down with James Ponsoldt , the director-slash-writer, and we talked for about three hours, and we just hit it off. . . . And then they set up a meeting for Mary and I. We had an appetizer and a drink at a restaurant weekly vacation rentals clearwater florida in L.A. and were just feeling each other out, and I was such a huge fan of hers. I was waiting for a project like Smashed to come around weekly vacation rentals clearwater florida for her so she could really spread her wings. I knew she had it in her. . . .
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