How do you transform yourself from a meth kingpin into the leader of the free world? For recent Golden Globe and SAG Award winner Bryan Cranston, it's all in a day's work.
Cranston is poised to make his Broadway debut shortly in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkan's All The Way, which casts him as Lyndon Baines Johnson, focusing on the former president's fight to pass what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The actor observes that his late Breaking Bad character, Walter White, and the 36th president of the USA actually had "a lot of similarities."
Speaking at a recent gathering of the Way cast, Cranston says that Johnson and White "both were strong-willed men, who had very specific ideas of what they wanted to accomplish. And both were bright, of course, though they had character flaws."
What flaws, specifically? "Ego issues," Cranston says, smiling, noting both "got warped and damaged to a degree -- for what they were after."
All The Way begins performances Feb. 10 and is set to open March 6 at the Neil Simon Theatre.
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