Bryan Cranston on why he wanted to play Walter White

In this excerpt from Overheard with Evan Smith, Bryan Cranston discusses reading the script for Breaking Bad and why he knew right away he wanted to play Walter White.
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[@ryanwilliams4223]

Bryan hands down after Breaking Bad is the greatest actor on the planet,ive never seen so much depth and character arc before.

[@MBrusaZappellini]

Beardy Ry he was amazing in Malcom in the Middle too (in particolare there’s a roller skating scene which is out of this world)

[@willettej7988]

James Gandolfini ... then Bryan

[@Unclemoparman]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☺️🐠

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

Watch the goodfellers, shawshank redemption and forest Gump.

[@afonsodeportugal]

@@curtiscarpenter9881 Goodfellers??????? 😂

[@darkhorse1255]

Bryan, so humble. Extremely rare.

[@rusalkin]

1:00 yes all babylon 5 fans laugh at his humbleness

[@willshore2506]

Bryan made a superb interview inspite of a lousy interviewer

[@slinkyatrest]

Every pithy interjection became more and more distracting. Why the show director didn't just cut off his mic until absolutely necessary is beyond me.

[@jacobshirley3457]

I'd rather take this interviewer over the generic one, lol.

[@nunu7797]

I love how in the messed up world of breaking bad, the relations between characters (particulary the relation between jessie and walter) changes even from episode to episode

[@humanbeing5300]

Bryan Cranston was born for this role and I can’t imagine anyone else but him in hindsight

[@lavsheth9228]

There should be a Bryan Cranston on why he wanted to play Hal.

[@slow.and.hot717]

Very true! ❤️

[@professionalprocrastinator8103]

Hal is full of contradictions too ;)

[@emp2304]

I luv how it shows how people have their values, their motives and their pesonalties. However we also have the darkest of flaws and reasons to why we do certain actions on a wide spectrum

[@ronakmankale9599]

This is guy is hands down is the greatest actor cuz the way he plays the characters like he himself is that character. Love you bryan cranston❤️

[@thetrax3482]

‘That’s how we are in real life’ so true he nailed it there

[@itsallgood2149]

I love this dude. Greatest performance of all time imo.

[@ronakmankale9599]

I never hated walter white but i cried in the end

[@AshPragasam]

Ugh this interviewer isn't even listening to the answers

[@valerie0000]

Greatest actor of all time.

[@terrapinflyer273]

It only takes one bad day.

[@billybob4159]

“Anybody can become dangerous” 😳

[@abhishekdey9717]

A Masterclass Actor ever I have seen in my Life 🙏

[@guacca]

Speaking to Ryan Cranston in person must be such a delight. What a profound and intelligent person she appears to be.

[@xviphoenix69]

Ryan white?

[@reygarcia6398]

She?

[@nightfox380]

bruh what 🤣

[@skinnygirl10]

well said

[@kiesch5247]

The ending when they’re talking about him playing characters as contradictions is especially true now with his new show Your Honor

[@gulyaswift1503]

Great actor

[@jaycuthbert245]

He'd play a terrific George H W Bush. Not only is he a dead ringer for him but ALSO mr. Cranston has the acting pedigree and skill set to quite frankly play anyone convincingly. But unfortuntely due to him already playing LBJ I don't think he will ever consider playing another president and that's such a shame imho

[@realwestonsharpensteen]

Never say never. He played a complicated man on the X-Files and then played a very complicated man 10 years later. Similar characters, different shows, same actor.

[@phonotical]

Christ, do you want to give him one question at a time?

[@chrisridenhour]

Why? Hmmm let's see. Maybe because WW is one of the greatest characters ever written for TV.

[@roddydykes7053]

Is Bryan correct here? Was Breaking Bad seriously the first show to have dramatic character development from the beginning to the end of the series?

[@DeadxThrone1]

It wasn't extreme to the point where a repressed, fearful doormat turns into a psychopathic kingpin.

[@tjsmithers3893]

I mean name another one

[@tjsmithers3893]

Ivar Lodbrok ok well name another show that’s done that.. you say not really yet didn’t name another show

[@ryanwilliams4223]

id say so yea its not really been done on this scale before.

[@ryanwilliams4223]

there is not another show,Breaking Bad therefore is a new style of series

[@americagreatagain818]

Both Breaking Bad and Friday the 13th is color footage so beautiful

[@archangecamilien1879]

3:00 ok, haha, I would argue Walter White is "eviler" than most people, inherently...he had brewing rage over that whole thing with his pals, forgot the details, after they started that company-thing...he had anger issues...Saul Goodman, strangely enough, is a better man than Walter White...inherently, putting circumstances aside...even with the con artist-thing...it would bother him more to do harm than Walter White...I disagree that just because Walter White can do something anyone can, haha...he is more evil than most people...

[@archangecamilien1879]

Without saying they are the same person, there are some similarities, when you think about the confessions of the Governor (in the Walking Dead) when he was discussing terms with Rick, when they were all in the prison, when he wanted him to deliver Michonne to him...he had brewing rage before the epidemic/whatever-you-want-to-call-it...he talks about that...I think that's how Walter White felt before he was diagnosed, etc...he had that potential for evil within him...not everyone has it like that...

[@venu6286]

Those who like Saul are psychopaths.

[@nottle9779]

Bro really said “never before has there been a character that changed from the beginning of the show to the end of the show.” What?

[@callofdutychile]

He keeps interrupting Bryan to hear himself. I h8 those kind of interviews

[@sasorimyman669]

Hal, in real life he is Hal.

[@pr0xykill978]

The LBJ thing was so contrived

[@dr.aisaitl7439]

Walter white was bald, head shaped like a bean, bean...be...baines, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Was the transition so smooth between playing those two?

[@WillOfMyD]

Pretty awesome!

[@nicholasgarcia6402]

i’m a simple person. i see bryan cranstons name, i click

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

When has a man gotta get his comeuppance? When the worm turns. The plot premise, nothings more dangerous than a man who has nothing to lose!🎯

[@anthonyguidice2655]

This interview seems to want to become the star of the interview. That's unforgivable. Bad interviewing technique. We care about Cranston, not the interviewer; not at all.

[@xengar]

I disagree with him on character development in television. His description of the writing was already being applied in the Buffy series, granted in a different context.

[@jemvee3830]

I know, right? I love Cranston, but that was horseshit. Never had there been a character that changed?!?

[@mcheesy5887]

@@jemvee3830 I feel he meant charging each season progressively. Before 2008. It's true that character development already existed but many didn't constantly evolve till the end.

[@fatherj3283]

LBJ? 👀👑🏀

[@MikhaelYacobMalech5742]

A man dying of cancer going trough a mid life crisis leading himself on a path to the abyss. Breaking bad.

[@sinhun67]

without tony saprano there wouldn't be Walter white

[@BenDabber]

sinhun67 nah.

[@ronnied.978]

lol

[@lucacosta3366]

Ben Dabber What do you mean “nah.” Vince Gilligan himself said it. Have you even watched The Sopranos?

[@paperchasindude6578]

@@lucacosta3366 true

[@jaedenbaker4611]

Ok

[@kynismos]

Typical critic pain in the a...

[@ivandovranic5834]

Have to stop the video 2 minutes in, can't stand the interviewer😣