Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte died by suicide at 34 after private texts described Hollywood scripts that cast him as a prop with almost no depth.

Page Six confirmed that RJ Mitte, best known as Walter “Flynn” White Jr. on AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” died Monday by suicide. He was 34.

In the years before his death, messages obtained by the Daily Mail and reported alongside that confirmation showed an actor fighting for real parts while the industry kept handing him thin ones.

Mitte lived with cerebral palsy. He played a disabled teenager on one of television’s biggest dramas, then spent the years after the show chasing work that treated him as more than a device.

The gap between Hollywood’s talk of inclusion and the roles he said he was offered is now part of the public record he left behind.

Scripts offered him three lines and called it a part

In April 2022, Mitte texted a close friend about the material coming his way.

He wrote that he was “looking for interesting stuff to do,” then described the pattern:

“Looking for interesting stuff to do, getting a lot of scripts where I would be a prop and they don’t want to give any depth, 3 lines if that. I’m writing my own s, t now.”

Four months later, the frustration hardened.

“Just doing animation, no one wants me on screen... it’s annoying as f, k.”

Those were not isolated gripes. In April 2017 he had already described the casting wall he hit when he asked a basic question.

“When I go for a part, they sometimes tell me that it’s not a character with a disability, and I’m like why can’t the character be disabled?”

He added that the people across the table “get real uncomfortable when I say that.” He also called some casting agents “a, holes” who “won’t even look at me.”

In June 2020 he put the career math in plain terms: “I’ve got to figure out more work. I need to keep myself relevant lol.” At another point he wrote, “There’s a lot I could do, if given the chance.”

He booked work abroad and still needed U.S. jobs for insurance

Mitte did land gigs in Australia and Canada. He also said he wanted to keep working in the United States to hold onto his health insurance.

That is the working actor’s reality outside the awards speeches. Credits overseas do not always pay the same bills at home.

He had been a Screen Actors Guild spokesperson for actors with disabilities and served as president of The Mitte Foundation. His representative told Page Six on Monday that he “used his platform to challenge stereotypes and promote greater representation for people with disabilities.”

In 2015 he told the Badger Herald what the disability meant to him on the job.

“I think everyone that has a disability has the opportunity to make an impact with what they can do and who they are. I wouldn’t be able to do what I do today if it wasn’t for my disability and what it instilled in me.”

The same industry that celebrated that storyline still, by his own account years later, kept offering him prop work.

Days before his death he still talked about the next job

On Sept. 30, Mitte attended the Los Angeles premiere of “Talking To Strangers” at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills. There he spoke with Page Six about a possible project with “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan.

“I am cautiously optimistic that Vince has something in mind,” he said. “I’m not entirely sure [what it is].” He added, “At the end of the day, any chance I can work with Vince and his team is the dream come true.”

On Oct. 5 he appeared on “The Joe Vulpis” podcast and struck a forward tone about staying in the fight.

“I tell people, you know, every dream could be a nightmare, too... but just keep living it, just keep pushing forward.”

“Breaking Bad” ran five seasons on AMC from 2008 to 2013. Mitte’s Flynn White was a fixture of that run. The years after the finale, the texts show, were a grind for screen time that matched the skill he had already proved.

No public statement in the available reporting assigned a motive for his death, and no official location or method was detailed beyond Page Six’s confirmation of suicide on Monday. What the messages do document is a long professional complaint: an actor with a major credit, a disability the business claimed to care about, and a pipeline of parts that refused him depth.

Hollywood sells inclusion as a brand. Mitte’s own words show how little of that branding reached the casting table when the camera had to stay on him.