Everyone remembers her with pain
Before Breaking BadBryan Cranston managed to be on everyone’s lips by playing Hal, Malcolm’s father in Malcolm in the Middle. What’s more, she almost didn’t get the role in the upcoming AMC series of this acclaimed family comedy.
For seven seasons, we have seen him star in scenes that we could never imagine. Even recently, with the promotion of ArgylleThe actor revealed that he had a pretty bad time with a scene where blue paint was poured on him, where his body collapsed for a brief period of time.
But there is a specific scene that many today think how is it possible that he could agree to do it. We talk about when it was covered in beesan image that is difficult to forget.
In an interview with Independent, Cranston explains the scenes he had to face while playing Hal when asked if Malcolm’s family was dysfunctional or notmainly remembering that of bees:
We were doing some crazy stuff with Hal and the creator, Linwood, Boomer, was like, ‘I’m not going to ask you to do anything I wouldn’t do.’ It was only when he was covered in bees that he said: ‘I have to tell you: Honestly, I wouldn’t do this.’ They came up with an image of me covered in bees and then reverse engineered the story to fit that ending. Over the years I was covered in blue paint, tied to the front of a moving bus, all kinds of things. I read the script and said, ‘Oh my God, look what they’re going to ask Hal to do this week.’ It was fun
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Malcolm in the middle marked an entire generation, the same one that still has that header engraved in their minds with the legendary song by They Might Be Giants, Boss of Me. If you want to relive the series or start it, you can enjoy all seven seasons on Disney+.
