Bryan Cranston

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Bryan Cranston earned four Emmy Awards for his role as Walter White on Breaking Bad, which is widely regarded as one of the best shows in the history of television. Since the series ended in 2013, he has won a pair of Tony Awards and earned an Oscar nomination for his leading role in Trumbo. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with Cranston over Zoom to discuss his latest series Your Honor, the legacy of Breaking Bad, and how he always finds himself playing the part of a man compromised.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.3	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along with me today.
0:10.1	I've got a good one dialed up for you with Emmy and Tony winner and all around great guy,
0:15.4	Brian Cranston.
0:17.1	Brian of course who you know and for his iconic role as Walter White on Breaking Bad is now
0:22.8	starring in the new Showtime series called Your Honor and it's got a little breaking
0:27.5	bad to it. It's a guy who is a respected judge in New Orleans whose son, his teenage
0:33.6	son is involved in a hit and run accident, a fatal hit and run accident and then we go
0:39.0	down this path of the cover up.
0:41.0	He is a judge trying to protect his own son.
0:44.7	Amazing show.
0:45.7	You guys are going to really love it.
0:47.0	He's home in LA, Brian Cranston.
0:49.8	This is another one of these Zoom interviews that we've been doing.
0:52.6	I'm sitting in my house.
0:54.0	He's sitting in his house.
0:55.1	We turn on your computer, you flip open your Macbook and bang.
0:58.3	There's Cranston filling up the screen.
1:00.3	We talk about Your Honor.
1:01.8	We talk about Breaking Bad and we talk about his COVID diagnosis back in March.
1:07.8	I don't think we knew about it publicly maybe until July when he announced it on Instagram
1:12.2	but he had it pretty bad while they were shooting Your Honor actually down in New Orleans.
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