Bryan Cranston Recalls Run-In with ‘Freaky’ Charles Manson

The most recent image of Charles Manson, taken in August (L) (Courtesy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation). Bryan Cranston (R) attending the premiere of 'Last Flag Flying' on Oct. 8, 2017 in London. Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for BFI

“Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston said that he once had an encounter with Charles Manson decades ago.

“Hearing Charles Manson is dead, I shuddered. I was within his grasp just one year before he committed brutal murder in 1969,” the “Breaking Bad” star tweeted. “Luck was with me when a cousin and I went horseback riding at the Span Ranch, and saw the little man with crazy eyes whom the other hippies called Charlie.”