Bryan Cranston and His Best 'Breaking Bad' Moments: Bryan Relates Emotionally with Jane's Death, Job-Quit Scene, and More
Multi-awarded Actor Bryan Cranston, antihero of the most acclaimed TV series "Breaking Bad", looks back on his best Breaking Bad scenes. Cranston discusses particular death, drama, and other scenes that "hit way too close to home."
Bryan Lee Cranston, born March 7, 1956 is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is most popularly known for portraying Walter White in AMC's Breaking Bad series, winning him three consecutive Emmys as Outstanding Lead actor in a Drama series. He also played as Hal in the hit comedy series "Malcolm in the Middle" back 2000 to 2006.
In Breaking Bad, Cranston's great acting on every scene was given deep thought. This process helped him to not only push through challenging scenes but bring the very essence out of it. As Cranston puts it, the way he puts himself "there" in the scenes sometimes hits him too personally.
Recently, Cranston and other actors, script writers, directors, and producers were invited for a discussion at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. On day two of the Film Festival, Cranston was one of the key actors to the discussion about "Psychos We Love." In the discussion, Cranston recounts Jane's (Krysten Ritter) death in season 2 episode 9 as one of the most emotional scenes he had in Breaking Bad.
"My real daughter's face took her place.. So it just hits me.", said Cranston, in a report by Brian Anthony Hernandez of Mashable.com.
When Cranston imagined the scene happening in real life, his tendencies would obviously be to help out the girl choking from her own vomit. Especially when the thought of her daughter seeps in, he had a hard time doing the scene.
Another scene where Cranston thinks he and other viewers strongly relate is the time he quit his second job at the carwash. In Breaking Bad's pilot episode, it shows there a man who had enough. Walter White, Cranston shares, has reached his very limits causing him to be so upset and treat his boss very disrespectfully before quitting the job.
Season 4, episode 11 titled "Crawl Space," was also a Cranston favorite. He explains how that episode can bring out the worse helplessness in a man. As Cranston internalized and acted out the scene, all that came from him is a maniacal laughter, confusing in its very core. It's almost perfect to make a sane man downright crazy.
To cap it off, Cranston relates Breaking Bad's finale which garnered 10.3 million viewers. In an interview, Cranston remembered how the finale brought him to tears. Before given the actual scripts for the last episode, he and Aaron Paul (Jessie Pinkman) were asked to watch a video of how the story would end. After the clip, both were speechless and tears flowed shortly.
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