On hit TV show Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston played the anti-hero Walter White, a morally dubious and complicated man. But it appears his evil deeds on the show weren’t enough for the American actor who told Metro.co.uk that he can’t wait to play a really ‘nasty’ villain.

Because cooking up meth and dealing drugs isn’t bad enough.

‘You know what I’d like to do? I’d like to do some big superhero villain in some Marvel classic,’ he revealed.

But he has no plans to play a long-standing Marvel bad guy. No, Bryan has his eye on an original: ‘Create one from scratch… I don’t know what I would do but it would be nasty.’


Bryan was speaking to Metro at the London Film Festival premiere of his new film Trumbo.



Set during the McCarthyism era of the 1950s, it’s a highly political movie which once again proves what co-star Dame Helen Mirren once said; that Bryan is one of America’s great actors.

He found international fame and acclaim in the Emmy award-winning Breaking Bad, but Bryan recently admitted that if he could return to any character it wouldn’t be Walter White but Malcolm In The Middle’s Hal.

‘It’s been 10 years since we went off the air,’ Bryan told Entertainment Tonight.

‘And it’d be fun to pick up that guy’s clothes again and be fun and sweet and adorable and hapless and clueless and afraid of everything.’

Trumbo is in cinemas on 5 February 2016.

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