&#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; star Bryan Cranston revealed how a cross-country motorcycle trip with his brother in the mid-1970s led to the pair becoming suspects in a very real murder case.
Cranston <a href="https://people.com/how-bryan-cranston-became-murder-suspect-was-targeted-by-scorned-lover-soap-set-8580183" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spilled the details</a> during a recent appearance on Jesse Tyler Ferguson&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bryan-cranston/id1683905652?i=1000644286588" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dinner&#8217;s On Me</a>&#8221; podcast, saying that it had all started when they ran out of money somewhere in Florida and needed to make some extra cash.
Cranston explained that they had found work at a restaurant called The Hawaiian Inn, but had found themselves working for a cook that no one liked — a man named Peter Wong.
&#8220;There was just no way on earth you were ever going to get on his good side. But he liked the ladies. And so, all the men knew, oh, if we had any problem in the kitchen, we had to send them in,&#8221; Cranston said, adding that staffers would on occasion fantasize about how they might rid themselves of the &#8220;awful&#8221; Wong.
&#8220;We&#8217;d all discuss how rotten and mean Peter Wong is, and we&#8217;d all discuss, if one were to do away with Peter Wong &#8230; how would one do it?&#8221; Cranston recalled. Among the suggestions he remembered were something involving the meat-grinder and a plot to crack him over the head with one of his own pans.
But the Cranstons had never planned to stay long, and eventually took off on their motorcycles — generally headed toward Maine. And as luck would have it, that was about the same time that Wong mysteriously disappeared.
&#8220;Little did we know that right at the time we said goodbye and left the job, Peter Wong went missing,&#8221; Cranston said. &#8220;He was not found for a week, week and a half, two weeks.&#8221;
Wong was found dead, stuffed in the trunk of a car after being robbed, investigators eventually determined — but before they figured things out, Cranston and his brother topped their suspect list.
&#8220;My friends were saying, &#8216;Homicide, what&#8217;s going on?&#8217; They&#8217;re saying, uh, &#8216;Peter Wong was found murdered.&#8217; And everything just drops because this is serious stuff,&#8221; Cranston recalled. &#8220;And then they said, &#8216;Is there anyone ever that you can remember talking about hurting or maiming or doing any harm to Peter Wong?&#8217; And everyone&#8217;s like, &#8216;Um, yes.'&#8221;
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&#8220;&#8216;Well, this is not a joke This really happened and the man&#8217;s dead. Is there anybody who was joking as you put it, and is not here now?'&#8221; Cranston said that because of the timing of their departure, he and his brother were the only two who fit that description.&#8221;&#8216;When did they leave? &#8230; Two weeks ago? That&#8217;s when we determined that you know, the man was killed. Where can we find them? &#8230; Oh, they left town?'&#8221;&#8221;Little did we know they put out an APB (all-points bulletin) on us and to find us. We were somewhere in the Carolinas, I think at that point. We didn&#8217;t know any of this,&#8221; Cranston added. &#8220;We were just tooling along. I can just imagine if someone really pulled us over &#8230; we were this close.&#8221;

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‘Breaking Bad’ Star Reveals How He Became A Suspect In A Real Murder

'Breaking Bad' Star Reveals How He Became A Suspect In A Real Murder

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Several <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cast members</a> of the hit AMC drama series “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/breaking-bad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Breaking Bad</a>” showed up on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/strike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">picket line</a> on Tuesday as the SAG-AFTRA and WGA writers and actors strikes drag on in Hollywood.
Lead “Breaking Bad” actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bryan-cranston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bryan Cranston</a>, who played Walter White in the Emmy-award-winning series, expressed some of the concerns that led to a work stoppage in the first place. One issue he called out specifically was the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
“We’re here in solidarity with all of us, with all of our brothers and sisters who are affected by this, and the WGA and SAG,” Cranston told the gathered crowd outside Sony Pictures Studios, per <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/breaking-bad-cast-reunite-picket-line-strike-ai-concerns-bryan-cranston-1235577711/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. “We are all the backbone of our business.”
He continued, “We’re not making them [studios and streamers] the enemy, they’re not villains. These are people we all will be working with once again at some point. We just want them to see reality and fairness and come back to the table and talk to us.”
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The 67-year-old actor told THR that he is hoping for an “equitable contract” for talent to earn a guaranteed living wage.
“Something that makes the working actor able to pay their bills, pay their rent, buy food for their families,” Cranston told the outlet. “I mean, it’s really to that point. It’s a watershed moment.”
The “Breaking Bad” alum also came down hard on the use of AI. 
“This contract will have a sentence in there that states, ‘Actors must be human beings.’ This is mind-boggling, but that’s what it will say, and the same thing with the Writers Guild contract: ‘Must be written by a human being,&#8217;” Cranston said. 
“We’ve never had to imagine that before but that’s here right now. It’s possible of happening right now and we have to step in and say, ‘You are dehumanizing the workforce and it cannot continue.&#8217;”
Former Breaking Bad actors Aaron Paul, Betsy Brandt, Jesse Plemons, and writer Peter Gould joined Cranston on the picket line.
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Plemons, who played Todd Alquist in the series, spoke up on the issue of residual payments for actors, another key item in the contract negotiations. “I started acting quite a while ago and that’s how people survive when they’re not working,” Plemons said.
WGA representatives met with studio executives last week but failed to make any progress toward coming to an agreement. They expressed disgust that the execs shared contract details with the public, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/studios-share-contract-details-after-wga-leaders-meet-with-hollywood-ceos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
“This was the companies’ plan from the beginning – not to bargain, but to jam us,” the reps said at the time. “It is their only strategy – to bet that we will turn on each other.”
The WGA has been on strike since May 2, while the SAG-AFTRA strike began on July 14. This is the first dual strike since 1960.

‘Breaking Bad’ Cast Reunites On Picket Line, Slams AI: ‘Dehumanizing The Workforce’

'Breaking Bad' Cast Reunites On Picket Line, Slams AI: 'Dehumanizing The Workforce'

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Actor Bryan Cranston <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2023/07/25/bryan-cranston-sag-aftra-rock-the-city-rally-speech/70464165007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excoriated</a> Hollywood executives and singled out Disney CEO Bob Iger on Tuesday for the use of artificial intelligence in the film and television industries as actors in Hollywood have gone on strike.
Cranston appeared at the SAG-AFTRA &#8220;Rock the City For a Fair Contract&#8221; rally in Times Square, New York. Earlier this month, Iger <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2023/07/13/sag-aftra-actors-strike-2023-live-updates/70410271007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on CNBC that the demands from actors and writers were not realistic, saying, “I understand any labor organizations&#8217; desire to work on the behalf of its members to get the most compensation and to be compensated fairly based on the value that they deliver. There&#8217;s a level of expectation that they have that is just not realistic. And they are adding to a set of challenges that this business is already facing that is quite frankly very disruptive and dangerous.&#8221;
“I find it very ironic that we are all gathered here today in unity in front of an entity that is run by Disney,” Cranston preached. “We’ve got a message for Mr. Iger: I know, sir, that you look through things in a different lens. We don’t expect you to understand who we are. But we ask you to hear us and beyond that to listen to us when we tell you: We will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots.”
“We will not have you take away our right to work and earn a decent living,” he continued, declaring, “And lastly and more importantly, we will not allow you to take away our dignity.”
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Claiming that “our industry has changed exponentially,” Cranston added, “We are not in the same business model that we were even 10 years ago. And yet, even though they admit that that is the truth in today&#8217;s economy, they are fighting us tooth and nail to stick to the same economic system that is outmoded, outdated. They want us to step back in time. We cannot and we will not do that.”
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SAG-AFTRA’s contract expired with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) in mid-July. The actors’ strike immediately followed; SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher claimed, “We are the victims here. We are being victimized by a very greedy entity. You are systematically trying to figure out ways to carve us out of what is due us. Shame on you!”
Prior to the actors&#8217; strike, writers in Hollywood began a strike on May 2.

SAG-AFTRA Members Hold “Rock The City For A Fair Contract” Rally In Times Square

Bryan Cranston Singles Out Disney CEO, Slams Hollywood’s Use Of AI

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Some of Hollywood&#8217;s leading men like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bryan-cranston-cancel-culture-kills-forgiveness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bryan Cranston</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-hemsworth-confronts-mortality-after-discovering-genetic-predisposition-for-alzheimers-disease" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Hemsworth</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/actor-tom-holland-wants-to-take-break-from-acting-to-focus-on-starting-a-family" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Holland</a> made headlines recently after revealing that they are choosing to step away from the spotlight.
The actors, who have all been part of the movie-making business for at least the last decade, are saying goodbye to Hollywood for a variety of reasons that include the demands of their career on their marriage and family.
In June, 67-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bryan-cranston-said-he-will-retire-from-acting-to-focus-on-marriage-we-want-to-go-the-distance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cranston</a> said after some twenty years of putting his career front and center he plans to take a prolonged step away from acting in three years following the completion of several projects. The star, who&#8217;s career really took off with his 2009 TV show &#8220;Breaking Bad,&#8221; said his wife, Robin Dearden, has supported him all these years and it&#8217;s time for the &#8220;paradigm&#8221; to change.
&#8220;For the last 24 years, Robin has led her life holding onto my tail,&#8221; the &#8220;Better Call Saul&#8221; star told <a href="https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/bryan-cranston-interview-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British GQ</a>. &#8220;She&#8217;s been the plus one, she&#8217;s been the wife of a celebrity. She&#8217;s had to pivot and adjust her life based on mine. She has tremendous benefit from it, but we&#8217;re uneven. I want to level that out. She deserves it.&#8221;
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&#8220;I look at it like the warning light going off on your dashboard,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s telling you, &#8216;You might want to pay attention to this.&#8217; I love my wife, and we want to go the distance, but I want to do it in a healthy way. I don&#8217;t want to just be with her. I don&#8217;t want to just have the two of us go into a restaurant and no one says a word.&#8221;
After the report came out, Cranston took to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CtR4NjnPceC/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> and said he wanted to clarify he wasn&#8217;t retiring but instead hitting the &#8220;pause&#8221; button to do things like &#8220;spend time with Robin&#8221; and get a sort of a &#8220;reset&#8221; in his career.
Dearden and Cranston met on the CBS show &#8220;Airwolf&#8221; in 1986. At the time, both were with involved with other people but soon started dating, and in 1989 they tied the knot. They have one daughter together.
Chris Hemsworth&#8217;s career skyrocketed after he took on the superhero role of &#8220;Thor&#8221; in 2011. Since that time, he&#8217;s played an essential role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in numerous Marvel films.
Recently, the 39-year-old actor learned that he inherited two copies of the APOE4 gene (one each from his mother and his father), which showed he was at greater risk of developing Alzheimer&#8217;s disease than others.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thor-actor-chris-hemsworth-may-take-fewer-roles-in-the-future-heres-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reports</a> then surfaced that a source close to the Marvel star said after he completes a few current projects — he plans to step away from Hollywood to spend more time with his family while his kids are young.
In a <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/chris-hemsworth-exclusive-interview-alzheimers-limitless" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vanity Fair</a> interview published in November, Hemsworth said learning that he had a higher risk of developing Alzheimer&#8217;s really hit him as he faced his own &#8220;mortality.&#8221;
&#8220;It really triggered something in me to want to take some time off,&#8221; the actor said. &#8220;And since we finished the show, I&#8217;ve been completing the things I was already contracted to do. Now when I finish this tour this week, I&#8217;m going home and I&#8217;m going to have a good chunk of time off and just simplify. Be with the kids, be with my wife.&#8221;
In June, the &#8220;Thor: Ragnarok&#8221; star clarified the Vanity Fair <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-hemsworth-clarifies-comments-about-taking-a-break-from-hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments</a> about taking a break and said that he wanted to take time off because he&#8217;s &#8220;been working for 10 years, and I&#8217;ve got three kids that I want to spend more time with.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been running from project to project for a long time, just to avoid being unemployed or that fear that it&#8217;s the last job you&#8217;ll get, you know?&#8221; Hemsworth said. &#8220;I want to be more curated about the choices I make, things I immerse myself in or I&#8217;m involved in. I want to have greater value and work with great people.&#8221;
Hemsworth married actress Elsa Pataky in 2010 and the couple share three kids together.
Another star connected to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marvel-star-tom-holland-announces-break-from-acting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Holland</a>, a 27-year-old actor who recently announced he&#8217;s taking a break from the spotlight after executive producing the new Apple TV+ thriller &#8220;The Crowded Room.&#8221;
Holland said the series, which deals with mental health issues, was &#8220;a tough time for sure&#8221; as he took on the role of Danny Sullivan, a young man arrested for a shocking crime in 1979. The series is based on the real-life story of Billy Milligan, who was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder.
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Tom Holland breaks free. 
After six stints as Spidey and eager for post-superhero adventures, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheCrowdedRoom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheCrowdedRoom</a> star opens up about the pressures of mega-celebrity, life with Zendaya and his group chat with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield: <a href="https://t.co/qLFCgO4THA">https://t.co/qLFCgO4THA</a> <a href="https://t.co/zugVj9vyri">pic.twitter.com/zugVj9vyri</a>
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&#8220;We were exploring certain emotions that I have definitely never experienced before,&#8221; the &#8220;Spider-Man&#8221; star told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJLfw2jJjQw&amp;t=154s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Extra</a>. &#8220;And then on top of that, being a producer, dealing with the day-to-day problems that come with any film set, just added that extra level of pressure, but I really enjoyed it&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;But then again, the show did break me,&#8221; he added. &#8220;There did come a time where I was sort of like, &#8216;I need to have a break.&#8217; I disappeared. I went to Mexico for a week and had some time on a beach and lay low. And I&#8217;m now taking a year off, and that is a result of how difficult this show was.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been seeing my family. I&#8217;ve been seeing my friends. I&#8217;ve been playing golf,&#8221; Holland continued. &#8220;I’ve been going to the garden center and buying plants and doing my best to keep them alive and all that sort of stuff. I&#8217;ve just been trying to be (a) regular bloke from Kingston and just relax.&#8221;
In 2021, the &#8220;Spider-Man: Far From Home&#8221; star said he was looking forward to taking a break from acting to start a family.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve spent the last six years being so focused on my career,&#8221; Holland told <a href="https://people.com/movies/tom-holland-talks-plans-after-spider-man-family/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People magazine</a>. &#8220;I want to take a break and focus on starting a family and figuring out what I want to do outside of this world.&#8221;
At the time, Holland was dating his co-star in the Marvel films, actress Zendaya. The pair are rumored to be dating for years but it is unclear how long. As of June 2023, the Hollywood couple is still believed to be together.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-is-not-america-why-so-many-celebrities-are-leaving-los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Hollywood Is Not America.&#8221; Why So Many Celebrities Are Leaving Los Angeles</a>

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bryan-cranston">Bryan Cranston</a> said he’s ready to be done with acting within three years so he can focus on his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marriage">marriage</a> instead.
The 67-year-old “Breaking Bad” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">alum</a> made the comments during a recent interview with <a href="https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/bryan-cranston-interview-2023">British GQ</a>. Cranston said after asking his wife, Robin Dearden, to support him in his career for decades, it’s time for him to “change the paradigm.”
&#8220;For the last 24 years, Robin has led her life holding onto my tail,&#8221; the actor said. &#8220;She’s been the plus one, she’s been the wife of a celebrity. She’s had to pivot and adjust her life based on mine. She has tremendous benefit from it, but we’re uneven. I want to level that out. She deserves it.”
Cranston said they’ve been going to therapy together since before they were married. 
&#8220;I look at it like the warning light going off on your dashboard. It’s telling you, ‘You might want to pay attention to this,’&#8221; he explained. &#8220;I love my wife, and we want to go the distance, but I want to do it in a healthy way. I don’t want to just be with her. I don’t want to just have the two of us go into a restaurant and no one says a word.”
The couple met in the 1980s while filming a scene on the CBS military drama “Airwolf.” Both were in other relationships when they met but found themselves dating soon after and tied the knot in 1989. They have one daughter, Taylor, who was born in 1993. 
 Dearden called Cranston “the funniest man I’d ever met” during a People <a href="https://people.com/movies/bryan-cranston-met-wife-robin-dearden-while-holding-her-captive-on-airwolf/">interview</a> in 2016.
“It was 30 years ago that we met on that terrible TV show,” Cranston said of their initial meeting. “It changed both of our lives.”
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“I think it was serendipitous, because, as Robin says, if we had been unencumbered at the time and started dating, she doesn’t think that we would have stayed together,” he said. “But because she had a boyfriend and I had a girlfriend, we were able to flirt without the heavy sexual tension, but there was sexual tension, let me tell you! But not the heavy sexual tension, not the ‘faux pas’ sexual tension, but it was there.”

Bryan Cranston To Retire From Acting To Focus On Marriage: ‘We Want To Go The Distance’

Bryan Cranston Said He's Retiring From Acting For The Sake Of His Marriage

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Actor Bryan Cranston, who shot to international fame playing Walter White in “Breaking Bad,” reiterated his belief that the “Make America Great Again” slogan has racist implications.
Cranston spoke on CNN with host Chris Wallace when making his remarks. Wallace asked him about his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDs1PkfeNqc&amp;t=1029s">recent conversation</a> with Bill Maher in which Cranston implied that the “Make America Great Again” slogan had racist implications.
“This conversation I had with Bill, we&#8217;re talking about critical race theory,” Cranston said to Wallace. “And I think it&#8217;s imperative that it&#8217;s taught, that we look at our history much the same I think that Germany has looked at their history involvement in the wars, one and two, and embrace it and say this is where we went wrong. This is how it went wrong.”
“When I see the Make America Great Again, my comment is, do you accept that that could possibly be construed as a racist remark?” he continued. “And most people, a lot of people go, how could that be racist? Make America Great Again? I said so just ask yourself from an African-American experience, when was it ever great in America for the African-American? When was it great? So if you&#8217;re making it great again, it&#8217;s not including them.”
Maher had protested Cranston’s supposition that Americans were innately racist, saying to him, “The people who are running things, I just don’t think that that’s — their mindset is ‘Let’s be racist to people of color.’”
“They don’t understand it but they are innately that way,” Cranston responded. “You recognize your experience. What we don’t recognize is the privilege, the advantage that you have. Look at Congress: look at the makeup of Congress. You cannot deny that older white men are the predominant factor in Congress.”
“It’s 400 f***ing years that we’ve dealt with this, and our country still has not taken responsibility or accountability,” Cranston declared.
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“For what?” Wallace asked.
“For the history of the systemic racism that’s in this country,” Cranston insisted.
“What should we do more?” Wallace pressed.
“Well, I mean, for one thing, critical race theory, I think is essential to be teaching. &#8230; I mean, teaching how the race trade and racism is systemic in everything we’ve done in government, in social activities. It’s embedded in it,” Cranston told him.
“When you look at this guy’s hat, ‘Make America Great Again,’ what do you think about that?” Cranston asked Maher. “Would you &#8230; also accept that there’s a large swath of people in this camp and other people like him, who have no clue that that’s a dog whistle? That they think ‘Make America Great Again’ is for everyone? But when was it great? Let me ask you this: When was it great for African Americans in this country? When was it great?”
“Well, if you’re applying for college now, I would say now,” Maher replied.

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After two long years of waiting, “Better Call Saul” fans will finally see the triumphant return of the drama series as the sixth and final season kicks off tonight. 
Some fans of the “Breaking Bad” prequel will have already re-watched the fifth season or the entire series in anticipation of the premiere. It would make sense, considering the season 5 finale aired in April 2020, which feels like a lifetime ago.
For anyone who doesn’t have that kind of time, there are a few key elements to remember before watching the first two episodes of season 6, which will both air back-to-back on AMC beginning at 9 p.m. Monday.
The official “Better Call Saul” YouTube channel published a 15-minute recap to catch everyone up on the most important events from Season 5. In it, fans watch as Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) explains to Kim Wexler why he’s taking on the Saul Goodman persona going forward. Ignacio “Nacho” Varga breaks the news to Jimmy/Saul that “When you’re in, you’re in” after the lawyer helped with a favor for the cartel. This is the beginning of a downward spiral that will end with Jimmy putting the “criminal” in criminal lawyer. 
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Later, Howard Hamlin of HHM insults Jimmy by offering him a job at the law firm his older brother Chuck helped found. Jimmy gives his response by lobbing a bowling ball at Howard’s Jaguar. Gus Fring saves Mike Ehrmantraut’s life and enlists him as a “soldier,” saying they both operate with the same goal in mind: revenge. In Fring’s case, he’s trying to get back at the Salamanca family, while maintaining the pretense of being business partners all working for the same drug cartel.
Kim and Jimmy seem like they’re going to break up following the debacle with Mesa Verde Bank and Everett Acker, but then they get married instead. Then Kim and Jimmy decide to hatch a plot to take down Howard with Kim taking the reins.
Nacho betrays Lalo at the behest of Fring in a coup at his hacienda. Lalo escapes, figures out it was Nacho who left the gate open to let the hitmen in, and walks away furious. The recap ends with a reminder about the flash-forward scenes to a post-&#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; world where Saul is managing a Cinnabon in Omaha while hiding from his mortal enemies. But while there, someone recognizes him and makes him say the famous line, “Better call Saul.”
The final season of the award-winning drama is composed of 13 episodes split into 7 and 6, with the first half airing April-May and the second portion premiering in July. “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan is back to work on the final season alongside co-creator Peter Gould. During a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-bad-duo-walter-white-and-jesse-pinkman-will-appear-in-better-call-saul-season-6">recent panel discussion</a>, Gould confirmed that Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) will be making cameos in the final season.

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Bryan Cranston can afford to be picky with acting roles. The 62-year-old industry veteran took on the part of a lifetime in “Breaking Bad,” solidifying his status as a Hollywood legend with the bank account to match. He’s been discerning with projects ever since the series ended in 2013. 
Most recently, Cranston walked away from the chance to direct a play about an Englishman who foils an attempt by the Ku Klux Klan to turn his fishing lodge into a meeting place. Instead of taking the helm of “The Foreigner,” the “Malcolm in the Middle” alum chose to star in a different play entirely.
“It is a privileged viewpoint to be able to look at the Ku Klux Klan and laugh at them and belittle them for their broken and hateful ideology,” Cranston told the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-02-16/bryan-cranston-interview-power-of-sail-geffen-playhouse">Los Angeles Times</a>. 
“But the Ku Klux Klan and Charlottesville and white supremacists — that’s still happening and it’s not funny. It’s not funny to any group that is marginalized by these groups’ hatred, and it really taught me something.”
The actor recalled laughing at the story and, according to The Times, this helped him realize his “white privilege.” Instead of going with that opportunity, he headed in a new direction.
“And I realized, ‘Oh my God, if there’s one, there’s two, and if there’s two, there are 20 blind spots that I have … what else am I blind to?” Cranston continued. “If we’re taking up space with a very palatable play from the 1980s where rich old white people can laugh at white supremacists and say, ‘Shame on you,’ and have a good night in the theater, things need to change, I need to change.”
Now the actor is headlining a production at L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse, but it has a different tone compared to “The Foreigner.” 
The LA Times described Cranston’s character Nichols in his production “Power of Sail” as, “an aging, highly respected Harvard professor who faces intense backlash for inviting a white nationalist and Holocaust denier named Carver to speak at his annual symposium. As student protests intensify, Nichols presses forward, claiming his intention is to give Carver and his repugnant ideas a thorough dressing down in a debate.”
Nichols is described as a  “free-speech absolutist” who believes “The answer to hate speech is more speech.”
Cranston apparently said the play took on new meaning following the death of George Floyd and “transformed Cranston, who says in these troubling years he came face to face with his own ‘white blindness’ and privilege.”
The play questions if free speech should have limits or if some rhetoric should be prohibited. 
“Power of Sail” is described as questioning these concepts. The Times said, “The play asks if there should be limits to free speech, and if so, why? It tests the boundaries of the free speech ideal by examining the traditional arbiters of that speech — those who get to decide whose voice is lifted and whose voice is quashed. It suggests the existence of a moral compass in an age when truth is often called relative by special-interest groups opposed to it.”
“There need to be barriers, there need to be guard rails,” the Emmy Award winner told the publication. “If someone wants to say the Holocaust was a hoax, which is against history … to give a person space to amplify that speech is not tolerance. It’s abusive.”
Cranston insists he’s just trying to make people think about these kinds of issues. “A good play may not change your life, but it could change your day,” he said. “To go deeper, a play can also stimulate the mind. It can make you question your thought process — your dogma. It could challenge you.”
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Cancel culture just got another opponent: &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; star Bryan Cranston.
Speaking with The <a href="https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/entertainment/2021/january/theres-less-forgiveness-in-our-world-bryan-cranston-condemns-evils-of-cancel-culture">Associated Press</a> last week, Cranston said that cancel culture has created a world of no mercy.
“We live in this ‘cancel culture’ of people erring and doing wrong — either on purpose or by accident — and there’s less forgiveness in our world,” he said.
“I think we’re unfortunately in a coarser environment. I think our societies have become harder and less understanding, less tolerant, less forgiving.,&#8221; he added. “Where does forgiveness live in our society? Where can we accept someone’s behavior if they are contrite, if they are apologetic and take responsibility? Isn&#8217;t it possible that forgiveness plays a part of that and they are welcomed back in, as opposed to creating more fences, creating more, &#8216;you&#8217;re out, you&#8217;re in, that&#8217;s it.&#8217; You make one mistake, gone. &#8220;
Cranston felt that society needed to &#8220;take a second look&#8221; at the concept of ostracizing people, extolling the concept of mercy and forgiveness as a human strength.
“I think we need to take a second look at that, exhale, and realize that asking forgiveness and receiving forgiveness are not weaknesses, but are human strengths,&#8221; he said.
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Cranston is just one of many celebrities to come out against cancel culture. Just last week, actor Rowan Atkinson, forever known as Mr. Bean, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rowan-atkinson-star-of-mr-bean-condemns-cancel-culture-a-medieval-mob-looking-for-someone-to-burn">likened cancel culture</a> to the “digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn.”
“The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society,” Atkinson told the U.K. Radio Times. “It becomes a case of either you’re with us or against us. And if you’re against us, you deserve to be ‘canceled.’”
“It’s important that we’re exposed to a wide spectrum of opinion, but what we have now is the digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn,” Atkinson added. “So it is scary for anyone who’s a victim of that mob and it fills me with fear about the future.”
Speaking with <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-john-cleese/cancel-culture-takes-the-fun-out-of-life-says-comedian-john-cleese-idUSKCN24M2QV">Reuters </a>this past July, &#8220;Monty Python&#8221; actor John Cleese said that cancel culture, often fueled by political correctness, “misunderstands the main purposes of life, which is to have fun.”
“Everything humorous is critical. If you have someone who is perfectly kind and intelligent and flexible and who always behaves appropriately, they’re not funny. Funniness is about people who don’t do that, like Trump,” he said.
Cleese added that political correctness creates a problem for comedians because they “have to set the bar according to what we are told by the most touchy, most emotionally unstable and fragile, and least stoic people in the country.”
Comedian Ricky Gervais has long been an opponent of cancel culture and the excesses of political correctness in general. During an episode of the podcast “SmartLess” with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett, Gervais said that being woke in today’s environment could be taboo in the next 10 years based on cultural shifts.
“The scary thing is being canceled if you say the wrong thing and suddenly Netflix can take you off their platform,” Gervais said.
“You could be the most woke, politically correct stand-up in the world at the moment, but you don’t know what it’s going to be like in 10 years time. You can get canceled for things you said 10 years ago,” he added.
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&#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; star Bryan Cranston joined the chorus of celebrities calling upon people to &#8220;wear the damn mask&#8221; this week after announcing his recent recovery from COVID-19.
In an Instagram video posted on Thursday, Cranston said that he will be donating his plasma, which contains antibodies, to help combat the spread of the virus, while calling on others to do their part.
&#8220;About now you’re probably feeling a little tied down, restricting your mobility and like me, you’re tired of this!!&#8221; wrote Cranston in the caption. &#8220;Well, I just want to encourage you to have a little more patience. I was pretty strict in adhering to the protocols and still&#8230; I contracted the virus. Yep. it sounds daunting now that over 150,000 Americans are dead because of it. I was one of the lucky ones. Mild symptoms. I count my blessings and urge you to keep wearing the damn mask, keep washing your hands, and stay socially distant. We can prevail – but ONLY if we follow the rules together.&#8221;
In the video message, Cranston recorded himself inside the UCLA Blood &amp; Platelet Center in Los Angeles, California, where he made the plasma donation.
Speaking <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/07/31/fauci-another-lockdown-coronavirus-pandemic-curve-impossible-predict-town-hall-bts-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus/">with CNN’s Anderson Cooper</a> and Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Thursday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that America will not go into lockdown again if they wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines.
“I don’t think we need to go all the way back to lockdown,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-i-dont-think-we-need-to-go-to-lockdown-again">he said</a>. “And the reason I say that is that we’re learning more and more. If you do five fundamental principles, in any situation, one, wear a mask all the time, consistently, when you’re outside, and can be exposed. Number two, keep physical distance. Number three, avoid bars or close bars if you can. Keep away from crowds, big congregations, and maintain hand hygiene.”
Aside from Cranston, other celebrities, from Tom Hanks to Matthew McConaughey to Jennifer Aniston to rapper Eminem, have called upon Americans to wear a mask and stop the spread of COVID-19. Just last week, &#8220;Pitch Perfect&#8221; actress Anna Camp, who played Aubrey in the series, claimed she contracted the virus after not wearing a mask in public just one time.
“I was incredibly safe. I wore a mask. I used hand sanitizer,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pitch-perfect-actress-anna-camp-says-she-got-covid-19-after-not-wearing-a-mask-one-time">said Camp</a>. “One time, when the world was starting to open up, I decided to forgo wearing my mask in public. One. Time. And I ended up getting it.”
“People are saying it’s like having the flu, but I’ve had the flu, and this is absolutely not that,” she continued. “The panic of contracting a virus that is basically untreatable and is so new that no one knows the long-term irreparable damage it does to your immune system is unbelievably stressful.”
Prior to Camp, actress Jennifer Aniston shared a photo of her friend, named Kevin, on a ventilator and implored people to “wear a damn mask.”
“This is our friend Kevin. Perfectly healthy, not one underlying health issue. This is Covid. This is real,” Aniston wrote. “We can’t be so naive to think we can outrun this… if we want this to end, and we do, right? The one step we can take is PLEASE #wearadamnmask.”
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Over the weekend, “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston targeted President Trump on Twitter, stating that he was &#8220;not sane.” Cranston tweeted, “I&#8217;ve stopped worrying about the president&#8217;s sanity. He&#8217;s not sane. And the realization of his illness doesn&#8217;t fill me with anger, but with profound sadness. What I now worry about is the sanity of anyone who can still support this deeply troubled man to lead our country.”
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I&#39;ve stopped worrying about the president&#39;s sanity. He&#39;s not sane. And the realization of his illness doesn&#39;t fill me with anger, but with profound sadness. What I now worry about is the sanity of anyone who can still support this deeply troubled man to lead our country.
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Cranston’s tweet came after the mainstream media commented on Trump’s remarks, which he later said were sarcastic, regarding the idea of using light or disinfectants to counter the effects of the coronavirus.
Cranston&#8217;s anger seems at odds with remarks he made in May 2016, during a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/fashion/barack-obama-bryan-cranston-table-for-three.html">dinner for three</a> for former President Barack Obama, Cranston, and New York Times reporter Philip Galanes in the Oval Office. Cranston was asked by Galanes if he had any optimism that America could have a “common conversation on national issues.” Galanes queried, “It feels like we can’t have that anymore. We have Republican facts and Democratic facts, the relentless messaging of false facts. Any optimism here?”
Cranston replied, “I do. There’s no denying the polemic nature of politics has pushed everyone to the fringes. And the reaction to your administration has been an arms-folded, “We’re not budging.” Instead of the horse-trading of L.B.J.’s time, giving this senator or that congressman what they needed to get where we need to go, we’ve turned to an athletic kind of partisanship. If you’re on the other side of the fence, I can’t support you even if you have a good idea. And the vitriol on the talking-head shows —&#8221;
Galanes interjected, “This doesn’t sound very optimistic.”
Cranston concluded, “But it can be. Start right away. Do it with your friend. Disagree without being disagreeable. Don’t diminish him or her. Just work to find a common ground that we can build on.”
Cranston has been an unabashed admirer of Obama; before Obama spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&amp;v=IhpQzeDX7To&amp;feature=emb_logo">ten-minute video</a> was played, narrated by Cranston, lauding Obama’s achievements, including the Affordable Care Act.
In July 2016, Cranston <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm1IGxCiOdI">appeared</a> on “Larry King Now,” where he stated, “I think what President Obama has shown is actually very presidential in the sense that he shows restraint; he engages in diplomacy and caution; he’s introspective; he’s mature. And you meet him in person, he’s engaging and funny and bright and presidential.”
King replied, “And he’s way up in popularity. How do you account for that?”
Cranston replied, “I think in comparison … I think it’s time now that people are saying, “He’s about to leave office and now we can have a chance to glance back and see what he’s been able to accomplish, and I think in time, the healthcare act that he passed, I think, is going to be his legacy. And I think it’s going to be tremendously successful.”
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