RE-RELEASE - Bryan Cranston
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Brian Cranston. I am the danger. Brian Cranston. Wow. You know, it's very rare to have someone go from Malcolm in the Middle, which is a very funny show, very culty, funny, and flip into Breaking Bad. I mean, a million things in between, but... the two yeah and then and now back to mountain yeah back to malcolm the show is back i've seen some running around his underpants yeah so he's like uh he's like he's totally like a regular guy like he doesn't wear brian kranz like any kind of ego he just sort of but man breaking bad was
How did Bryan Cranston transition from comedy to drama?
i mean you know arguably one of the best acting things has ever been recorded yeah i talked to someone yesterday who says they're re-watching breaking bad For real. That's something just kind of like The Sopranos. Every once in a while you can rewatch it. But to be able to do broad comedy and get big laughs and then do Breaking Bad, which got so dark and so scary and weird is such a range. But yeah, he's a fun guy to talk to. He's very real, smart guy. Yeah, very light, likes to laugh, likes the comedian world and just wants to crack up. So yeah. We had a blast with him, and I think Malcolm in the Middle is on presently, so you can see him in that. Here he is, Bryan Cranston.
Don't say anything. He can't hear us yet. He can't hear us yet. I can't hear anything. Not one thing. Look at this guy. Bryan Cranston. Bryan Cranston is a name you want to say. It feels good to say it. Bryan Cranston. Brian Cranston, our whole goal is not to bore you. So- How's that going so far? Uh, I think we're, you know, I just watched your monologue of Brian Cranston, Brian Cranberry, SNL mono. God. Oh God. Thanks for coming on. You're a, you know, you're, you're, you're Brian Cranston. When did you first realize that? Like I'm fucking Brian Cranston. Yeah. When do you put fucking in it? When did you kind of go, hey, I'm Bryan Cranston. I'm Bryan Cranston. I'm Bryan fucking Cranston. Yeah. I want to know the moment
Because we don't have a real structure here. I'm assuming sometime during Breaking Bad, it must have hit you at some point. This is fantastic. This show's great. And I think I'm really killing it here. This is fucking, you know what I mean? You must have had a moment or maybe it was a gradual series of moments. When I got an SNL, it worked out for me. I was sort of like, oh, wow, I'm actually on SNL and it's doing pretty well for me. So the same kind of thing. Was it there or was it Malcolm in the Middle? Was it Seinfeld? Or I assume Breaking Bad. I'll let you talk. There you go. Yeah, you know, I mean, those elevations along the way when you're hoping that you have opportunity. I think I started to talk to some young actors a while ago and also
those of us who have been around a while. And I said, I think I realized what it was. When you first start out, you have tremendous ambition, but low opportunity. And it's like, you want to conquer everything, but it's like the, you're struggling to find an audition. And, and then if you get really lucky, as we all have, I think the opportunities grow sometimes larger than the ambition. And that's where I find myself now is is putting out the same amount of energy, but going, oh, my God. OK, yes, I will read that script. I will get to that at some point. You know, I instruct my agents now. I said, listen, please don't send me anything that you don't really love. So, you know, let them do that work to be able to say, no, this script is really, really great.
So you should take a look at it. Um, but I think it's this question I actually had for you, uh, for both of you. Thank you. Can I do that? Can I, we love, we love that. We like it better. Yeah. It's better for us. You know, the interesting thing of, of when you feel like you've, you've made it. When I was 25 years old, I got a job on a soap opera here in New York. And, uh, You know, it's churn, man. You're just one script. You do the script, you throw it out, read so hard the next day, next day, next day, next day. It's a lot of churn that you're going through. But there was something about feeling like, oh, man, I could do this.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:42
2
How did Bryan Cranston transition from comedy to drama?
0:42–6:41
3
What memorable experiences did Bryan Cranston have while hosting SNL?
6:41–8:02
4
When did Bryan Cranston realize he had made it as an actor?
8:02–9:34
5
What challenges did Bryan Cranston face in his early career?
9:34–13:08
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How did Bryan Cranston's perspective on auditions change over time?
13:08–16:49
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What insights does Bryan Cranston share about working on Breaking Bad?
16:49–19:39
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How does Bryan Cranston view the evolution of television acting?
19:39–56:06