LFF Premiere Interviews: Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren & John Goodman on Trumbo

On hit TV show Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston played the anti-hero Walter White, a morally dubious and complicated man. But it appears his evil deeds on the show weren’t enough for the American actor who told Metro.co.uk that he can’t wait to play a really “nasty” villain.

The 70-year-old screen queen was attending the premiere of her latest blockbuster Trumbo as part of the 59th BFI London Film Festival held at the Odeon in Leicester Square. “I think that’s the best kind; it didn’t feel like he was directing a comedy at all”. As a result of his fight for equality in the business, the press slandered him, he was arrested and studios refused to work with him. Trumbo follows the life of Dalton Trumbo, the whiskey-drinking, ever-smoking, bath-dwelling Hollywood screenplay writer who was an integral member of the Hollywood ten blacklisted for communist beliefs.

Cranston said: “I think the message resonates internationally, when a government overreaches its powers and the press breach the civil rights of a citizen”. It happened in the United States and this man went to prison for almost a year without committing a crime.

The 59-year-old actor laughed off any awards buzz surrounding his performance, saying: “That’s not something I focus on”.

He explained: “Any misbehaviour is certainly bad”. If you have skeletons coming out of your closet that expose yourself to abnormal or criminal behaviour, then yeah, you put yourself on that blacklist.

O.J. Simpson was infamously tried for murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, but was found not guilty.

This led to the Blacklist – a lineup of people with no proven ties to the Reds but who nonetheless were blocked from working on any major productions, just because someone said so. WireImage The actress dazzled on the red carpet in London Helen plays the role of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper within the film & posed for photos alongside co-stars Bryan Cranston & John Goodman.

Trumbo is released 5th February.