13 Actors Who Almost Died Filming Major TV Shows

3. Breaking Bad - Aaron Paul

Season one episode "Crazy Handful Of Nothin'" represents a major development in the story of Breaking Bad, and in Walter White's transformation into Heisenberg: it is the moment when he actually breaks bad, taking on Tuco in the watershed moment of his formative development. It also could well have resulted in the death of Aaron Paul, whose character Jesse Pinkman was originally supposed to die in the first season, in an early abandoned pitch, as he narrowly missed being smushed by a boulder.

The boulder was positioned on top of RV holding down a tarp, and a sudden gust of wind blew it off along with the tarp, right onto the spot where Paul was standing moments earlier. The only reason he wasn't killed was that he had chosen to ask the director if he could try an alternative take from a different spot.