Lewis Jacobs/AMC(NEW YORK) — Bryan Cranston is probably one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces, thanks to his Emmy Award-winning performance on Breaking Bad. But that doesn’t mean the actor has gotten used to the notoriety that comes with the job.
“Being [famous] is almost like being a pregnant woman. People think they can just put their hand on your belly and tell you, ‘Oh, you’re going to have a boy!’ It’s like having a complete stranger fondling you,” Cranston told The Hollywood Reporter. “And they have this sensibility where they feel comfortable coming up to you and saying, ‘You know that thing you did? I didn’t like that movie.’”
That’s something else Cranston’s not crazy about: “They’re not in the storytelling world, but they hear buzzwords. So they’ll go, ‘I didn’t like your character’s arc.’”
Even so, Cranston does admit fan engagement in itself is a good thing. “I’m open to all of it,” he says. “The only failure in art is when you move someone to no emotion whatsoever. I’d rather have people fiercely angry with me so long as they’re moved to some emotion. Even if the emotion was off-target — even if I was trying to move the audience one place and they go another. You missed, but at least they felt something.”
Cranston will next star as Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in Trumbo, out Nov. 6.
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