Bryan Cranston Fully Commits While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

it takes a big jump oh this was a white napkin when I started [Music] hey what's going on everybody from first week Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we're joined by Brian Cranston he's a six-time Emmy award-winning actor you know from Acclaim Broadway performances films that include 2013's best picture Argo and iconic TV shows like Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad he also stars in the crime drama your honor which returns for its much anticipated second season on Showtime January 15th and I for one can't wait Brian Cranston welcome back to the show oh Sean I'm already regretting this what's going through your head is he prepare to take on this Gauntlet for a second when I did this before it was like eight years ago when I was promoting why him and I thought when I left I thought that was the most bizarre interview I've ever done this won't last it's a gimmick no one no celebrity in their right mind is gonna do what I just oh my gosh how many years you've been doing this now since then so yeah like eight years believe it or not and they said you want to go on hot ones again I go yeah wait a minute what was hot ones um but I'm I'm up I'm off the task yeah I'm I'm up I'm not familiar with any of these hot sauces so you'll have to you'll have to introduce them to me as we go along well it'll be an education are you ready to get started yeah [Music] now your eyes are already starting to water well I'm just I'm just happy and proud to see you again it's more sentimentality than anything okay well this one is um tasty but not not that hot enjoy that while you can okay [Music] so there's some basic similarities between Michael your character and your honor and Walter White and the sense of having a good character who makes some dark choices in an effort to protect their family what fascinates you about the life forces that can push an otherwise upstanding member of society towards a dark and morally compromised path well from an acting standpoint they're the most fun to play when you have characters that are damaged to a certain point complex conflicted flawed but I think what is the key to getting an audience behind you on this is that they see that there's something else trying to get out trying to be better trying to improve and as long as an audience sees that someone isn't just relishing being bad they'll root for you you know [Music] jaquanda's Banshee Ranch oh tasty so in a Fresh Air interview on the heels of your Tony award-winning performances LBJ and all the way you tell a fascinating little detail about the vocal strain and physical toll of doing an eight show per week Broadway schedule what are silent Mondays and why have they served as a secret weapon for you there's a beautiful and talented actor named Audra McDonald um and she is not only a great actor but a terrific singer and she was doing Porgy and Bess at the time I was about to come in with all the way which is a three-hour play and I can already start to feel the strain on my vocal cords and I thought oh my God I'm about to do six months on Broadway I need help how did you do Porgy and Bess and she told me that she went I think to her ear nose and throat doctor and he wrote a prescription for her and and the prescription was for silence no laughing no Whispering no utterance of any kind completely shut down the vocal cords and I thought you know what I'm gonna do that so at first it was odd but I kept a pad around and my wife was I go you know hungry lunch and I go out and I go to a restaurant what's the soup you know and pretty soon I started to keep some of these where's my soup sign here it is you know it's like what's the soup and people would would go they didn't get it that I and I I wrote one I'm on vocal rest right and then in in response to that they go oh okay and I had another one you don't have to whisper [Music] that's a nasty looking thing yeah it's like a mythical sort of like dog wolf and then when it would attack its eyes turn red will that happen to us when we eat at sauce we'll see if it's an attack mode I should do a little special effects right now okay so while reading your Memoir of life in Parts I was really captured by the romantic way that you talk about baseball and being inspired by the way Wally Moon would swing for the left field fences when the LA Dodgers played in the LA Coliseum do you have an all-time favorite Vin scully-ism well I thought I did in 81 when he talked about if you have a sombrero throw it to the sky um when Fernando Valenzuela pitched a no-hitter but then in 88 Kirk Gibson hits his home run you know and he says in a season filled with unproppable the The Impossible has happened still feel like I'm in mourning for him passing because I've been listening to him for 60 years and Vin Scully represented to me just more than baseball to me it was a sanctuary when I had a rough childhood I can always tune out put on my transistor put in my earphones and listen to him take me away and at least for those three hours I felt like I was gonna be okay everything's safe nothing to worry about and I would just listen to his mellifluous voice and he would tell stories and I would just go off and I get a baseball game I hear I just it's just it just felt like floating sometimes [Music] okay going in yeah [Music] all right so far so good there we go what did you mean when you said that an actor approaching a comedic scene can't for one second think what they're doing is funny if you're doing a sketch like if you're doing Saturday Night Live part of the fun from the audience perspective is they're having fun knowing you're having fun right and so you're kind of in on it we all laugh when someone breaks character and starts cracking up and they're trying to look away we get even more enjoyment out of it and that's legitimate it's fun it's loose it's life but if you're doing a film or television show that's carefully scripted if the character realizes something's funny it it takes the onus off the audience to laugh because they're doing it you're doing it it's the same thing when a character easily cries if a character cries easily the audience doesn't have to but if a character tries not to cry that's when the audience will a little bit of curryish so far we're five in five to go halfway point yep I gotta say tasty but not crushing not like oh my God I can't do this anymore see I told you there's no you should there should have been no nervousness about coming back you know no anxiety about coming back you got this well this is only half time we got the whole second half well I'll do into a false sense of security thing in the front half yeah so we talked to actors in the past about picking and sequencing roles but you're the first one I've ever come across that has a full-blown project assessment scale where you break down everything from story to script role director and cast of all the scripts that have come across your desk what percentage would you say fail the writing test and then how early can you tell so the one I mentioned before that didn't have a high scale on the on the writing was why him uh why him had a very simple premise Midwestern dad doesn't like the boyfriend of his his you know cherished daughter that's it and I didn't anyway I taught I talk to my publicist and I said is it possible that I can get a hold of Paul Rudd so I called Paul and I said Paul you worked on these movies before the script seems just kind of there there's some funny situations and jokes but it doesn't like wow and he goes that's kind of the nature of this kind of movie it relies heavily on the on the ensemble cast to be able to punch it up and just play so we will do scenes we will shoot the scene as it's written and then then you go then you're adding lines then you're how about this and then someone says something you add to Anta then pretty soon you're like and it becomes something completely different and you can't script that several improvisations that I came up with ended up in the film and it was like oh man this is this is so much fun and so I learned my lesson from that it was a good lesson that that scale that I usually go by is not always accurate foreign we had Margot Robbie on the show she talked about how working in soaps was a really great and valuable education for an actor because it taught you how to work fast and be Word Perfect does that resonate with you yeah fast you got to work fast and there's a pattern in daytime television I don't even know if the medium really even works anymore but the pattern in daytime was people are watching a few times a week but not every day like two or two and a half times a week or something is the average so if I said Sean I saw you with Margo the other day and you're trying to get Catelyn away from me I will kill you you know and then then the next day I might say remember Sean when I warned you and when you talk to Margot that if you got in the way of God and I would kill you there's it's so similar it's so similar that your brain said no you just said this and you're going oh my God I just said this I'm repeating it and you just go through I learned just plow through because at first I would stop and go oh sorry I I'm repeating aren't I and they go no that's the line I'm so sorry now I'm more sorry so now I just learned just go through and then go was that right was that yeah it was right okay and you move on now we're getting psyched yeah angry goat dreams of calypso okay that's an interest ing taste it smells like calypso yeah I can sense that coming down the line so I know that herbal tobacco is often used as a marijuana substitute in TV and film do you have any insight into what goes into making like TV math like what is TV math TV methamphetamine the way we made it with a little blue tint is actually rock candy and it and the flavor was cotton candy rock candy I never tasted it until one night we were working it was probably the 16th or 17th hour we're working in the in our dungeon downstairs our our lab down there and Gus Fring is making sure we're working and we're working and I see Aaron Paul reach into our product our handful of our product starts throwing throwing the methamphetamine in his mouth I go what are you doing you can't eat the product he goes I'm getting so tired I mean it's like you're really getting a high off this inside well it's sugar and he goes you've tasted it I go no I haven't tasted that he goes oh you should taste it I go no I don't think so he goes and I guess I was still in character because Walter White wouldn't right it's not I'm not doing it and he goes take you gotta have one yo I have one what he would say and so all right all right you know to shut you up and I tasted one it was like foreign that's pretty good and so he and I they took they rolled the camera and he and I are just talking we're like eating all the all the methamphetamine um and that's what we use we use uh cotton candy rock candy [Music] it's that bomb Beyond insanity whoa [Music] do most people just take one bite especially when we get here yeah here it comes yeah hello Mama yeah wow the bomb Beyond it so what you're saying as I wipe my brows yeah careful around your eyes too yeah is that this is not the hottest one so here's where this might be good news this might be good news this one is the hottest one oh you know like uh I'm gonna switch things up we start by like the Scoville scale which is a measure of capsization per unit there go the hiccups and this one actually falls here but there's something about it that's crazy you know like remember when we did this like seven eight seven eight years ago this was still here it's the only bottle that stayed on the table that whole time yeah that one's kick ass uh-huh so back in 2019 you and your Breaking Bad co-star Aaron Paul launched dos Hombres what distinguishes like a good Mezcal from the kind that you're exposed to early on during like your poker playing days um okay so the difference is recipe just like anything I could put in front of you all the ingredients to make the perfect dinner but if you're not a chef you don't know how what goes with what and how to put it together it's the same thing with spirits how long do you smoke it how long do you ferment it how many times you filter it I mean you know I mean there's a lot going on you look like you're in substantial pain way worse than you way worse than you I have to say you know I'm so like amazed at how well you took that was that was a that was a kick-ass one yeah it's still it's still kicking but the way that you were able to just kind of internalize it deliver an eloquent interview answer and then look me up and down and be like hey buddy what's going on with you yes that's true I'm impressed the interesting thing is is is the perspiration yeah that's what always fascinating I can understand the power of the of the peppers doing their thing in your mouth what's with the perspiration [Music] whoa that one is the hottest oh this was a white napkin when I started [Music] wow so this next one is the butterfly Bakery Taco Vibes only Taco Vibes only all right now this one hot but after the last one [Music] kind of a walk in the park that's so far look at you when you think about the odd jobs that you had before your breakthrough in Hollywood is there one that you'd say was most Paramount or helpful in your acting career like I've heard you talk about when you worked at the dating matchmaking service greater expectations or Great Expectations that it was almost like taking an acting class Great Expectations um great company very successful company it was the precursor to match.com and all those things um and you'd go in and uh depending on your proclivity you you look at the men's or the women's and you're looking and you go she smokes I don't want to be with smoker and then oh she's close she's oh we went to the same school we love basketball oh this looks like a nice person and then you'd go to see her tape and that's where I come in because I did the the videotape interviews I would sit across from someone and I had a a camera here but I would never turn it on until I felt that that person's Essence was real oh and alive and then at some point they really did relax calm down and they laugh and usually when they laughed at something I'd start it so the first thing that the person watching their tape would see them laughing which is the most engaging thing you can see someone letting go and they laugh and then they're talking and we'd talk for a minute and a half not long I turn it off I go good we're done I go what wait but I didn't get out uh you know that I like to do this and I go that's not about that this is about them seeing you as you are most of the time that's what they want to see how is this person going to act when I'm sitting across with them drinking coffee and it was unbelievably successful it was really good well I can see why with employees like that all right all right Brian Cranston oh what's happening okay here we go put a last dab okay there you go last step last dab will do you we're through look at that we did it again we survived at us who would have thought okay here it goes cheers [Music] so to close things out if you would I'd love for you to unpackage this quote of yours the homework doesn't guarantee anything with luck it gives you a shot at something real I often get asked by Young acting students in high school and college how do you do it where how can I uh you know Libra and I go shortcut yeah yeah yeah how are you like a drug ah give me the shortcake there's no shortcut sorry yeah the sweating thing is surprising uh but that's that's what um that's what a a real love of acting is is is it's it's a relationship it's not a flame it is committing to something for the rest of your life when I think of acting and I think of creating and writing I mean it it occupies all of me and I love it if I ever start to complain about having to go to work at six o'clock in the morning or not wanting to do anything I don't want to do that then that's the sign I've I've lost the flame and it's time to hang it up Mike drop and look at you Brian Cranston for the second time taking on the hot ones Gauntlet and living to tell the tale now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera let the people know what you have going on in your life um well second season of of your honor I'm very proud of it it's on Showtime first season ended in tragedy now we're exploring the world of grief and and forgiveness is that is that still are we still able to have that in our society and some people will think that asking forgiveness or granting for forgiveness is a weakness I think it's a human strength it's a human strength it'll allow you to be with other people especially with a an intimate partner if you can't say you're sorry you will never be in a long-term relationship [Music] laughs [Applause] [Music] and that's the hot ones experience experience did it again I'll see who who would like would you like some more I have eight I have nine hot ones fans exciting news the season 20 hot ones 10 pack is now available if you've ever watched from home and wondered to yourself how hard are the wings really or been one of those people that's like oh they're only taking one bite well you know what if you think you could do better now is the time to put your money where your mouth is literally with the hot ones season 20 10 pack available exclusively at heatness.com that's heatness.com heatness.com heatness.com to get your hands on the season 20 hot ones 10 pack get them while they're high [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 23min 51sec (1431 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 02 2023