Owner of Jesse Pinkman's House fromBreaking BadShares How Much She Was Paid for Filming

Mar. 15, 2025

Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman in “Breaking Bad” (left), Jesse’s house.Photo:Netflix

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Breaking Badfans have an affinity forJesse Pinkman’s house.

“When I would watch the series and I’d see the portions inside the house, I’d say, ‘Yeah that’s Jesse’s house,’ but it was my house. It’s where I raised my kids,” she says.

“To me, it was also a place where we celebrated my mom’s 80th birthday. I had so many beautiful experiences — my mom and dad’s 50th wedding anniversary, Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas. My dad’s birthday was always at my house with his oyster stew. He liked his oyster stew and the whole family would get together.”

Brennan notes, “To me it’s kind of a privilege to share the memories of what I had with the house with the fans of Jesse’s house.”

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Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman in “Breaking Bad”.Netflix

It also was financially helpful for Brennan, who explained how she was paid for them to use the location.

“[It was] $500 for the day if they needed to come, $2,000 if they filmed; if they don’t film any more than 14 days then I don’t have to pay income taxes on it. So at that point, my son was in high school and I was able to buy him a car,” she shares. “On a school teacher’s salary, it was hard for me to afford things, but I put that money towards a used car for him.”

Brennan listed the house as season 2 was in progress, which wasn’t news that Vince Gilligan, showrunner onBreaking Bad, welcomed.

“Vince Gilliganwasn’t real happy to me when he found out I was selling the house mid-season. He had already envisioned what the next season was going to be like and he had to shift gears,” she says.

“He had to rewrite the script so that Jesse’s house would be sold, probably, in case the new owners didn’t allow the filming, which resulted in Jesse having to move elsewhere because the buyers of my house were going to be in the process of remodeling it.”

source: people.com