Bryan Cranston explains how his role in The X-FILES led to him being cast in BREAKING BAD

Bryan Cranston explains how his role in The X-FILES led to him being cast in BREAKING BAD

Bryan Cranston he previously spoke with journalist Dan Rather on The Big Interview about several topics and one of them includes his small role The X-Files The sixth season, titled “Drive,” resulted in her getting the lead role breaking Bad.

He said: “I’m broke so I went to an audition. Understood. That episode of The X-Files was written by Vince Gilligan. He wrote a despicable character. And grumpy. He’s an anti-Semite.

“And he was just an evil human being who was in trouble and he wrote it where, despite his actions, you still felt sympathy towards him and that was my first introduction to the depth of Vince Gilligan’s writing.”

Gilligan was obviously impressed with how Cranston played that character and ten years later contacted Cranston’s agent to convince him to audition for the role of Walter White.

Cranston continued: “For the fact that I was lucky enough to be in that episode of The X-Files, which he wrote and produced but he remembered it for 10 years.

“He remembered me, I didn’t remember him and he was my champion. Without Vince Gilligan someone else is sitting in this chair right now talking to you.”

Watch the interview below!

by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant

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