See, before Aaron Paul became Jesse Pinkman, he landed a small part in J.J. Abrams Mission: Impossible III in 2006.
Aaron Paul relayed his story to Tom Hiddleston during the Variety and PBS series Actors on Actors, and its pretty obvious that J.J. Abrams totally made Paul tank his Cloverfield audition.
Breaking Bads Aaron Paul just revealed the story behind his worst audition, and it turns out that that failed attempt at landing a job came directly because of an earlier gig he got working for super producer/director J.J. Abrams.
Cut to a year or so later, when Paul is about to audition for Abrams film Cloverfield.