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Bryan Cranston Acts Like A Spoiled Brat At Mini ‘Breaking Bad’ Reunion For 60th Birthday

By Stacey Cole
Published on: 04:15 PST, May 31, 2016

Bryan Cranston organized a mini Breaking Bad reunion for his 60th birthday, according to RTE Ten. Sixty-years-old doesn’t mean you cannot be a spoiled kid and annoy everybody at your birthday party, and Bryan Cranston also proved that just because you’re 60-years-old doesn’t mean you can’t ask your dad to throw guests out of a birthday party.

Bryan Cranston showed a day from his life on his 60th birthday as part of the big Six-Zero on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The hilarious sketch appeared on MTV’s My Super Sweet 16, even though the Breaking Bad star was celebrating his “super sweet 60th,” not 16.

In the sketch, Bryan Cranston plays a spoilt, selfish 60-year-old brat who still lives with his parents. But his parents got used to such an annoying behavior and so they try to satisfy his unrealistic demands for his 60th birthday.

The demands included Bryan Cranston asking to have a lion who would “actually” eat some people at the birthday party. And the 60-year-old actor also wanted Sisco to perform “The Thong Song” at the birthday bash.

The sketch is 15 minutes long, but it’s worth watching it — especially for Breaking Bad fans — since it has an abundance of references from the AMC show, which ended its run three years ago. Apart from Bryan Cranston, such Breaking Bad stars as Skinny Pete, Bob Odenkirk, and Aaron Paul turned up to make a mini Breaking Bad reunion happen.

When arguing with Paul at the birthday party, Bryan Cranston throws this one line that was priceless, “I carried your *ss for six years.”

In other news, watching Bryan Cranston play Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way feels like watching Daniel Day-Lewis’ Oscar-winning performance of Abraham Lincoln in 2012’s Lincoln, according to the Boston Globe. The 60-year-old actor made viewers think it’s some kind of a magical resurrection of the 36th president of the United States.

With the help of prosthetic makeup that gave Bryan Cranston LBJ’s large ears, bushy eyebrows, a receding hairline, and that one-of-a-kind nose, the Breaking Bad star pulled off a spot-on impression of the ex-U.S. president.

But it wasn’t really about the looks, it was the way Bryan Cranston conveyed the mood and the inner turmoil of LBJ who believed he was just an “accidental president” after John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.

And thanks to Bryan Cranston’s outstanding performance, All the Way viewers get to really live through all the emotions LBJ felt writing that Civil Rights Act of 1964 and proving to American people that he is more than just an “accidental president.”

It should be noted that Bryan Cranston wore different makeup to portray LBJ in the Broadway production of the same name, according to Forbes. However, the Breaking Bad actor’s approach to playing the 36th president of the U.S. remained the same.

Bryan Cranston revealed at a preview screening of the HBO film that his goal was to be “a dry sponge” that opens itself up to “whatever stimuli I get.” And what helped the 60-year-old actor really understand the life of LBJ was visiting the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.

Bryan Cranston had also spent some time to obtain comprehensive information about LBJ’s life — both political and personal — from the President’s autobiography, biographies, and daughters, as well as people who knew him well.

Bryan Cranston admitted that the vast material he accumulated “can make you feel bloated,” which is why he started wondering whether all that collected information can be used to portray LBJ’s life after JFK’s assassination.

“When the character does finally get into you through osmosis, you start thinking through this filter.”

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