Bryan Cranston Discusses Grossest ‘Breaking Bad’ Scene

Filming Breaking Bad for five seasons wasn’t always an easy job for Bryan Cranston. Even though it earned the actor notoriety and critical acclaim, the actor admitted that there were a few gross moments that went into creating the chemistry teacher turned meth cook Walter White.

For those who aren’t familiar with Breaking Bad, some gruesome scenes include Jane’s overdose, Gus Fring getting half of his face blown off, and one scene saw Tortuga, a drug runner’s head on the shell of a turtle. Now that you have those visuals, here’s the real reveal.

Bryan Cranston sat down for a Tribeca Talks panel at the Tribeca Film Festival, which was titled, “Psychos We Love” to discuss all things breaking bad. During the chat, Cranston selected one scene from season 1 as the ultimate grossest scene he’s ever had to shoot.

“Early on, there was a scene where I instructed my young protege to buy a particular kind of plastic container to dissolve a body and he said, ‘Why do we have to do that when we have a perfectly good bathtub upstairs?’ But this particular chemical eats away at porcelain, so the whole ceiling came down with all the liquified body parts and we had to clean it up. Even though it wasn’t real, I found myself gagging.”

During the panel Cranston also talked about the complexity of Walter White as a villain, having said that the “man in the black hat” wasn’t at all one-dimensional.

“It’s easy for the audience to cast them aside, but a more interesting complex character is someone who — I’m not sure if he’s good or bad. I’m uncertain. That I think is what strikes the heart of [Boardwalk Empire’s] Nucky [Thompson] and Tony Soprano and [Walter White]. There’s a mixture. That’s what human beings are.”

Even though this was a one time engagement to have Cranston talk about his iconic Breaking Bad character that doesn’t mean the actor is through with reliving all of the memories that has made him the most popular character actor in recent history.

As previously reported, Cranston will write an upcoming memoir through Simon & Schuster about his Breaking Bad days and more.

In the press release, Bryan said:

“Walter White taught me a lot — some of it useful, some of it dangerous. With this book, I want to tell the stories of my life and reveal the secrets and lies that I lived with for six years shooting Breaking Bad.”

The memoir is currently looking for a 2015 release.

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