What Does it Take to Be an Actor? - Bryan Cranston | Brief But Spectacular

the first thing I look for when I read a script is does the story move [Music] me what I truly love about this and when I talk to audiences about anything I've done or any other movie or or stage piece is that the audience is always right however you felt however you reacted to something is always right that's how you felt and it's it's remarkable how you can sit next to someone and watch a movie I could be weeping and they're like eh it's like really he's said yeah I it missed me the only failure is if you move an audience to nothing to boredom if they are indifferent about what they just experienced whether it's a painting or recite or a singer or a dancer or a play if they are I feel nothing throughout then we failed then we failed actors um come to town to New York or Los Angeles or London and they say you know I'm I'm going to give it a shot I'm going to give it a year and see if I can um you know become successful and to those I I want to say I could save you a year of your time if you think that this is something that you can carve out some arbitrary amount of time to achieve certain things this is not for you this is a this is a lifetime when you first start out as an actor you're your answer to any question is yes do you want to yes I want to do that I started out in 1979 doing background work as an extra angry mob drunken frat boy reckless driver and then when you first get that break where you actually have a name Steve wow I actually have a name I'm Steve uh you feel like you've you've progressed to some degree there is no career that has ever been achieved in entertainment I truly believe this without a healthy dose of luck someone said okay kid I'll read your script or all right you want an audition come in do it right now and then you got to be ready celebrity is a byproduct of what I do and what I like to do it's not what I was after I was a working actor things were fine I were paying my bills leading a very middle class economic life and then I got a lucky break at age 40 and was cast in Malcolm in the Middle at 50 I I got an even bigger break when I was cast as Walter White on Breaking Bad that was my trajectory it came when it was supposed to come and that's the interesting thing about luck it doesn't work on your timetable it works on its own my name is Brian granston and this is my brief but spectacular take on being an actor [Music]

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Id: 2eVH8-V0WDE

Length: 3min 38sec (218 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 20 2024