Before he was Walter White, Bryan Cranston played Hal, the oddball father of a dysfunctional family in Malcolm In The Middle.
Though the show was a technically a family comedy, Cranston recently revealed he had to perform some dangerous stunts for the role.
During a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show with his Argylle co-stars, Cranston revealed that his body began to “shut down” after he had to be fully covered in paint for a scene on Malcolm In The Middle.
“One time, I did a thing where my character was in a depression, and he started painting, and I was completely covered in blue paint,” he said, per Entertainment Weekly. “Completely, head to toe, in blue paint.”
Cranston’s Argylle co-star Bryce Dallas Howard interjected to comment, “That’s not safe, Bryan,” to which Cranston agreed.
“It’s not safe,” he said, “because your body can’t regulate the heat if you’re covering up all your pores.”
He explained that he began to feel uncomfortable when they started filming. “As you shoot, you’re moving around, and then there was a part of me, at one point, I was like starting to shut down the circuits,” he said. “And they went boom, and they grabbed me, and they threw me in the shower and they just… It was weird.”
Host Graham Norton then joked that it would certainly be an interesting way to kill someone.
“It’s a very slow way to murder someone,” he commented. He then began pretending to paint someone. “Nearly finished!”
Argylle premieres in theaters Feb. 2.
