Bryan Cranston

Anytime you saw a pot that big...

that held gallons and gallons of substance, you knew that mom was making something that we were going to eat for the next four days.

That was it.

It was like a stew, a soup, or chili, or something that was something that you ladle in and have the chunk of bread, soak it, and that's what you ate for lunch and dinner.

No, in retrospect, I realized that my mother was not a good cook.

Okay.

But when you're a child, you really don't know.

Did you know your mom was a good cook?

Yeah, very nice.

My mother was not a cook.

She was an actress who met my father in 1951, 52, on a television show that...

Betty White was the star of.

And they met, and she wanted to continue being an actress.

But in those days, in the 50s, women really felt that pressure.

You are either going to be a professional woman or a mother, a housewife and mother.

And you had to choose.

She chose to be a housewife and mother.

And always, for decades after that, always went, I wish that wasn't the case.

I wish I didn't have to choose.

And because my mother wasn't a very good cook, we too also wished that she didn't have to choose.