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(4 Mar 2014) BRYAN CRANSTON DITCHES WALTER WHITE FOR LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Bryan Cranston doesn't need to chase paychecks anymore. His salary for "Breaking Bad" wasn't exactly at drug kingpin levels, but he's secure.
So now what? Now it gets interesting.
Cranston's next move is making his Broadway debut in a role far from Walter White - playing former President Lyndon B. Johnson in "All the Way."
"It really appealed to me," said Cranston. "When I read this play I knew that this was what I should be doing after 'Breaking Bad.' It has an impact. It's important. It resonates with not only the historical aspect of it but the social aspect of it. Seeing how far we've come as a country and how far we still need to go. The players who were political giants back then and how they played a part in the development and the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it's all enveloped and it's quite entertaining and funny."
Cranston plays Johnson during his first year in office following the assassination of John F. Kennedy and explores both his fight for re-election and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
"The sixties was a decade that was probably the most traumatic and most change in our country's history," said Cranston, "when you consider, not the least of which but landing on the moon was one, Vietnam, the hippie movement, the music, the Beatles, the pill came into play, sexual relations changed everything, politically it was also extremely tentative and dangerous as LBJ said, he said, 'Without the Civil Rights Act, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was just a proclamation. We need laws and strict laws that enforce true freedom and equality for all people.'"
The role requires the actor to be bullying, insecure, charming, charismatic, ruthless and scary. Cranston has shown all that in a career that has gone from goofy comedy in "Malcolm in the Middle" to ferocious drama in "Breaking Bad."
"All the Way" opens Thursday (6 March 2014.)

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