Breaking Bad may have come to an end but Bryan Cranston’s career is far from over.
As well as appearing in the movies Get A Job and Godzilla, which are due to be released this year, he is taking to Broadway to play a United States president.
In All The Way, Cranston plays Lyndon B Johnson during his term in office following the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy.
The actor told Rolling Stone that when he took the role he’d been searching for something that would resonate with people. “It had to be entertaining, of course, but it also had to have some meaning beyond the words. I found a lot of layers in this show.”
A US President might seem a far cry from a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher turned meth dealer to some, but the Heisenberg appealed to playwright Robert Schenkkan.
“Bryan has the two things you want in the actor who plays LBJ,” Schenkkan told the New York Times. “He’s incredibly charismatic and charming and funny. And he’s also terrifying.”