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I love “Breaking Bad” so much. It’s just a phenomenal show that manages to bring it week after week. This upcoming weekend’s episode is sadly the last of the fourth season, which makes me want to ram my fists against the wall and yell “why?!” but maybe I’ve just had too much coffee this morning.

Star Bryan Cranston was on “The Today Show” this morning promoting the finale. I kind of vacillate on whether I find him hot or not. I know he’s an older dude at 55, but there’s something really compelling about him when he has hair. Then he plays his character too well and I start to associate him with Mr. White and think he’s a nut job with cancer who just happens to be a genius at chemistry. Cranston said some pretty interesting things this morning in regard to his character and what he’s learned from the show, namely that we’re all capable of being criminals.

Matt Lauer: An article I read, which by the way called [Breaking Bad] one of the best four shows of the last ten years… says “It seemed like this was going to be the story of a man forced to become a criminal because he’s dying of cancer. That’s the elevator pitch, but that’s completely unrelated to what the show has become. The central question on Breaking Bad is this ‘What makes a man bad?’ Is it true?

Bryan Cranston: It is. What I’ve learned from this experience is that any one of us, even the meekest person among us, could become a horrible dangerous person given the right set of circumstances.

Matt: In a split second?

Bryan: Well maybe not in a split second. Over four or five seasons.

He was funnier than I expected. In a way I agree, because I know I would do some desperate things in a life or death situation. You never know what’s going to happen and that’s a large part of this show’s appeal.

As for how it’s going to go for Bryan’s character Walter White, he said “he’s down the road too far now… it started out very altruistic, he wanted to leave something for his family… He decided to do something risky for the first time in his life.”

Matt questioned Bryan about his career post-“Malcolm in the Middle” and the fact that he was only being offered goofy dad roles. Matt asked him “Most actors want to support their families, how hard was it to turn those [roles] down?”

Bryan joked “I don’t care for my family very much so I was willing to take the risk. It was easy to turn them down actually because the industry has the tendency to try and pigeonhole an actor… But I don’t want to help them do that, so I [wanted] to veer off and do something else.”

He also explained that he has to fly home every weekend to his family in L.A. when he’s away filming in New Mexico. He sounded pretty ok with it. “Actors historically have been vagabonds… so we have to go and accept that part of our lives.”

I was so impressed with Cranston and my crush was renewed with this interview. He’s funny, grounded and an amazing actor.

There are 16 episodes left for “Breaking Bad” which will be split into two seasons. While we have more of this incredible show to look forward to it surely won’t be enough.

Also, I know Gus is a terrible person and we should want him dead for Jesse and Mr. White’s sake, but he’s so badass that I don’t want him to die. If you guys request it, I’ll do a recap on Monday! Maybe I’ll just link to Videogum’s recap and add my thoughts though, because their recaps are the best.

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