Bryan Cranston previously spoke with journalist Dan Rather on The Big Interview about several different topics and one of them include how his small role in The X-Files Season 6 titled “Drive”, led to landing the lead role in Breaking Bad.
He said: “I’m broke so I went to an audition. I got it. That episode of The X-Files was written by Vince Gilligan. He wrote a character that was despicable. And ornery. And an Anti-semite.
“And just a a nasty human being who was in trouble and he wrote it where despite his actions you still felt sympathy toward him and that was my first introduction to the depth of Vince Gilligan’s writing.”
Gilligan was obviously impressed with how Cranston played that character and ten years later reached out to Cranston’s agent to get him to audition for the role of Walter White.
Cranston continued: “Because of the fact that I was lucky enough to be in that episode of The X-Files, that he wrote and produced but he remembered it for 10 years.
“He remembered me, I didn’t remember him and he was my champion. Without Vince Gilligan someone else is sitting in this chair right now talking to you now.”
Check out the interview below!
