Breaking Bad and Malcolm in the Middle star Bryan Cranston has a long and profound Hollywood career. Cranston has a list of accolades under his belt including a Tony and Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe. He also has several outstanding titles to his resume but he remained most famous for the AMC series Breaking Bad.
Most actors have their eagle eyes locked in the glimmering landscapes of superhero movies. As MCU and DCEU are the frontiers of superhero producers from comic books, many actors have shown their keen interest to appear in those movies. Cranston is no exception, however, he has a condition.
Bryan Cranston’s Condition For His MCU Debut
Bryan Cranston can demand, well, he earned that. He can choose his roles as he pleases. Of course, the actor is willing to join Marvel Cinematic Universe but he has a condition.
The Breaking Bad actor has already appeared in MCU but not as a cast. In the 8th episode of Wanda Vision, Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) watch Malcolm in the Middle where Cranstone played Hal. Perhaps, the makers of the show are quite a fan of Malcolm in the Middle making Cranstone a likely contender of future MCU projects.
Back to the condition Cranstone demands, the actor stated that he wants to play an MCU villain, not a typical one but possessing the ability to give a very hard time to the heroes. Appearing on the Supermansion panel at New York Comic-Con in 2018, the actor revealed his desired MCU role would rather be playing a villain than a mighty hero.
“I want to play an antagonist a fraction smarter than the protagonist, never dumbed down to give the hero an easy win. That’s frustrating and boring to watch,” Cranston said.
Of course, the villain’s prowess and smartness are what make a superhero film engaging. Cranston is pretty much into that villain, although he didn’t name any comic book villain at first.
The Villain Bryan Cranston Would Love to Play
At the panel, someone reminded Cranston about the similarities between his Breaking Bad character Walter White and notorious MCU supervillain Nathaniel Essex, aka Mr. Sinister. Quiet Council of Krakoa’s Mr. Sinister has multiple abilities including shape-shifting, extremely long-lived, long-term precognition, expert genetic manipulator, and he is a surgeon. “Actually, that was the character, I’ll admit. Mister Sinister was the character I was thinking about,” Cranston said.
“I guess it’s a selfish standpoint. I don’t want to do a character that has been done several times before. I don’t want to be compared like ‘well, his Commissioner Gordon was yada yada yada.’ I don’t want to do that. I want to take something that hasn’t been done.”
Of course, Cranston’s reason for choosing Mr. Sinister is quite simple. He is smart, a good manipulator, and a Charles Darwin-inspired human scientist who is obsessed with engineering humanity into a perfect race of superhumans. Marvel could bring the X-Men villain onto the screen with Cranston’s face attached to it as the studios have been bringing big names on board over time.
But for now, Cranston is set to appear Jon S. Baird’s Everything’s Going to Be Great starring alongside Allison Janney and Avatar: The Way of Water star Jack Champion.
Source: Looper.
