R | Biography, Crime, Drama | 13 July 2016 (USA)
Bryan Cranston’s an actor’s actor. Channel-surfing, I once watched a few minutes of him playing the dad on TV’s “Malcolm in the Middle” and thought, “That’s exceptional clowning.”
The best actors have great comedic as well as dramatic talent. Laurence Olivier, the greatest modern stage actor, said he'd like his epitaph to read: “He Was Funny.” Bryan Cranston has no problem whatsoever playing the fool.
Moving up the Hollywood A-list food chain, Cranston’s Emmy-winning character from “Breaking Bad,” Walter White (mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher turned increasingly scary virtuoso crystal meth cook) was a culture-altering heavyweight.
No matter how high a wall you build between America and the countries that supply us with drugs, until we stop demanding—they'll continue supplying.
