{"id":880308,"date":"2026-10-13T01:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880308\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T01:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:26:09","slug":"rj-mitte-dead-at-34-breaking-bads-aaron-paul-dean-norris-pay-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880308\/","title":{"rendered":"RJ Mitte Dead at 34: Breaking Bad&#8217;s Aaron Paul, Dean Norris Pay Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood is honoring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rjmitte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">RJ Mitte<\/a>&#8216;s life and legacy.<\/p>\n<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/breaking_bad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Breaking Bad<\/a> actor and philanthropist&#8217;s rep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1437010\/rj-mitte-dead-breaking-bad-actor-was-34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">confirmed his passing<\/a> Oct. 12, fans, friends and fellow stars, including costar Aaron Paul, mourned his death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am at a loss,&#8221; Paul, who played Jesse Pinkman, said in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/breaking-bad-stars-react-r-j-mitte-death-1236728237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. &#8220;I am heartbroken over this news. RJ, I love you my friend. You will be missed. And to whoever happens to be reading this, please know you are loved, and you are not alone. Always remember that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, costar Dean Norris\u2014who played his uncle, Hank Schrader, on Breaking Bad\u2014wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/deanjnorris\/status\/2109769090827231721?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">X<\/a>, &#8220;Oh my God! \u00a0Was working just found out about RJ. I am heartbroken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though RJ didn\u2019t play my TV son, I always looked out for him as a young kid on set,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;He was a sweetheart of a young man and will be greatly missed. This is so heartbreaking, I can\u2019t believe it. Thinking of him and his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood is honoring\u00a0RJ Mitte&#8216;s life and legacy. After the Breaking Bad actor and philanthropist&#8217;s rep confirmed his passing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-880308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}