Chapter 1: What health issue is Lenny dealing with at the start?
Hello and welcome to Table Manners. I'm Jessie Ware and I'm here with Lenny. How are you, Len?
I've got a pain in the bum. Oh. Periformis syndrome. Okay. Yeah. My bum is strapped up. Oh. I'm on strong painkillers. Oh, you're high. No, not at all. Not at all. But I have taken drugs. I will do the heavy lifting today, Lenny. Okay, done. You just look at me. Okay. And I'll do it. What sign shall I give you? Well, just a Paddington look. What's a Paddington look? A long, hard stare.
Don't you remember that from the film? No. I gave him a long, hard stare.
I am thinking about how incredible your memory is, Lenny. You were just talking about how... We were talking about what you've made today.
Yeah.
And you were discussing the toughness of the brown meat on the bronze turkey last year.
Yeah.
I don't remember.
Just if you can recall every single meal we've had when we go out.
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Chapter 2: What dish are they preparing today?
But I have to have a peg of a tooth today. So at the moment I'm lisping.
My veneer came out when I was in Los Angeles. No, it didn't. Oh, yeah. Jill, the dentist, asked if how the tooth was. The veneer came out. I was in Bell's Bagels. Oh, no. I wasn't eating a bagel. I was eating a pastrami sandwich. It came out to Hannah's horror. And I had to go to... Did you have your glue on you? No. I found a dentist in Eagle Rock who was very interested in cars.
And he drove a Porsche. And I'm not surprised because it was Ā£300 to get the veneer fixed. So if you have a few veneers done, he's probably paid off the Porsche within two weeks. Was Chrissie Teigen in the waiting room with you? No, she wasn't. Oh, right. Her veneers come out. They pop off.
Don't tell me this because my veneer hasn't come off for like... When did I get it done?
Did you ever have it? Has it ever come off? No. Oh, you see, mine comes off all the time.
Well, anyway, I've got this tampon. This is very interesting for everyone, but it could go at any time.
Yeah.
The bite is weird too.
I have got toothy pegs upstairs. What? It's called toothy pegs and I bought it during lockdown. What is a toothy peg? It's a glue to stick your veneer on if it comes off. And I've got about four packets of it upstairs.
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Chapter 3: What memorable experiences does Bryan Cranston share about his childhood?
Brian Cranston is coming on. You will know him, of course, from... Hal as the most useless father in Malcolm in the Middle. Or Walter White from Breaking Bad. Quite an incredible father. Goody turned baddie. Who always plays a dad? Your Honour. He was the judge, wasn't he? I couldn't watch that. It was very stressful. I found that quite sad. And now he's playing a dad.
What's his name in All My Sons? Joe Keller. Joe Keller. Did you do it for... My dad played Joe Keller. Producer Alice's dad played Joe Keller, who Brian is playing on the West End. How did they fare, Al, the acting performances? Did they really take different... Your dad had a similar approach to Brian Cranston. Okay, I love that. So, yeah, we've got Brian Cranston coming up.
I've heard nothing but wonderful things about him. I'm really looking forward to chatting to him about food and family. But you may have to... I really feel like Shola Ahmed.
Can you do your whistle still yes thank god when am i gonna need to do that story out that was really unfair yeah when will i need this i don't know but just checking all the nativities are done you're the only one in our family that can do it and i'm very proud of you thank you brian cranston coming up on table manners
Bryan Cranston looking very dashing.
I am? You are.
Really dashing. The voice is giving Fruity. It's giving Leah. It's giving Joe. It's giving, yeah, it's giving, like, did you have a late night last night? Are you okay?
No, I'm fine. You know, when you're doing theater, you become a night owl. And I eat dinner about 10.30 at night.
Where did you go? To Jay Sheeky around the corner.
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Chapter 4: How did Bryan Cranston get involved in theater?
She's enjoying the weather there. This is like, it's too cold for her.
It's raining in LA too. Excuse me, I've just got back from LA because my other daughter lives there. It rained every single day for 10 days. It's very...
Very unusual for that to happen.
And the water, you don't have drains like we do. The water kind of comes down like a river. You can't actually get into your car. It comes down. You think Noah's going to come in his ark soon.
It's an awful place to live.
So your routine, you go, you maybe see friends, and then you just go to bed after that straight away? Or do you have to read something?
Yeah, I usually will see some friends right after the play. And I usually don't go out because it becomes too much time, too much. And so once in a while, like last night, was a rare occasion. I'll go out. I'll greet some friends who ever came to see the show that day, talk with them for hours. 30 minutes or so, then go outside, greet the fans who have come to see the play.
And I do that on every play I do and every performance after evening show. And I do it because they are... happy to see the actors come out. And I want to regenerate the excitement of theater. I want to make sure that generation after generation
gets excited about going to the theater because, especially in the United States, it's become so commercialized and so elite that only the wealthy can go. It's expensive. It's really, really tough. And if you have a bad experience, if you're new to theater and you pay the money to go see it, And it's a bad experience. You think I'm not bothering you. That's it. I'm never going again.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Bryan provide about his acting career?
At this stage in my life, I want the experience offstage to be as rewarding as it is onstage. So that you look forward to going to work, seeing these people, laughing about something that happened the night before. Or, oh, can you, is it possible, can you delay your entrance a second? Can you, is it, can you, oh yeah, okay, yeah. Let's try that tonight.
And you're constantly talking about little incremental improvements.
Will you move this production? To this house. To New York. We're coming to this house. Come to this house. Yeah, we'll get the whole street in. But will you move it to New York?
I don't know. Maybe? Well, there's a possibility. Okay. There's conversation about that.
I think it would do brilliantly.
Well, you know, beyond that, it's...
It's whether you can keep doing Joe for another year.
Yeah, it takes it out of you. It's both invigorating and enervating.
Yeah, yeah.
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Chapter 6: How does Bryan feel about the commercialism of theater?
And someone just said, just say thank you. And from that point on, I went, oh, you're a television star. Oh, thank you. And that's the end of it. So the energy savings was enormous. And I went, oh, there are different ways to just kind of manage your life.
Right. So you're going to be 70. Yeah. Which is, it's all right once you get there. You hate getting there.
How do you know? You're not there yet.
I'm way over there. So is there a role that you'd really love to do that you feel you've still got the breadth to do and that you, I don't know, Shakespeare or something that you would like to do now?
Well, Lear is something that's always been there. I'm now very much within the age range of King Lear. You know, there are other roles, whether it's Ibsen or Odets or more Miller to do, like Death of a Salesman perhaps or something, but... You know, it's funny, you mentioned that I'm kind of a father. Well, I'm a father in real life. Yeah.
And that's the roles I get, too, is the type of person that I am.
How many children have you got?
I just have one.
One.
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Chapter 7: What is Bryan's last supper choice?
That must have been a lovely scent, smell of the house.
He did that. But when my brother and I, when my parents split, actually my father left the family when I was 11. Yeah. And we went off to live with my grandparents for a year on like a small farm, like four or five acres. We had duties on the farm. We had to kill chickens and then dress them and cook them and pluck them and gut them and do all that and ducks and things like that.
It was a very hard learning experience for a kid from the city to go to this farm and have my very German grandparents go, come on, this is how you do it. And we were kind of intimidated by him. And he was a no-nonsense kind of guy. We slept either on the floor in the living room during the winter or behind on the patio during the spring and summer.
Was that because there wasn't enough space?
Not enough space. It was a one bedroom, one bath house. And the bathroom was for my grandmother. We went outside. We showered. Wild wheeze.
You did a lot of wild wheeze. Okay. And where was this?
This was in a rural area in San Bernardino County called Yucaipa, which is an Indian name. So in California still. In California, yeah.
It sounds quite tough. Was it quite like life lessons were learned there?
Yeah.
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Chapter 8: What nostalgic smells transport Bryan back to his childhood?
Gregorio has a family recipe. He's a third generation Mescalero. His son... is going to be the fourth generation Mescalero. And it's about how you treat it, even in the plant stage. You know, where we make this in Oaxaca, there's a lot of natural fruits. And so the bats and the bees that cross-pollinate our plants from the fruit trees and stuff. So there's a sense of a fruity foundation.
Not sweet, but just like, what is that? It's a fruit... So it's a hint.
It's kind of like wine. Who got who into tequila? Were you both into it? And that was why you're like, hey, we should both do this. And was it around Breaking Bad time?
He got me into it.
Okay. Was it whilst you were filming Breaking Bad?
Three years afterward.
Okay.
Basically, we missed each other. We really did. Three years from six years of being together constantly.
You were like father and son. I mean, it was so intense, that relationship.
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