Bryan Cranston recalled a dangerous stunt he did while filming Malcolm in the Middle over a decade ago.
The 67-year-old actor said he was covered from head to toe in blue paint for a particular scene, which became dangerous when he started getting lightheaded and nearly passed out.
‘It’s not safe,’ he explained on The Graham Norton Show on Friday. ‘Because your body can’t regulate the heat if you’re covering up all your pores.’
For the scene in a season two episode of the long-running sitcom, he said his character Hal Wilkerson was ‘in a depression’ and started painting.
At the end of the scene, the Breaking Bad star — who enjoyed a rare outing with his daughter, Taylor Dearden, 30, at a football game last month — recalled being covered ‘completely, head to toe, in blue paint’.
Bryan Cranston recalled a dangerous stunt he did while filming Malcolm in the Middle over a decade ago
The 67-year-old actor said he was covered from head to toe in blue paint for a particular scene, which became dangerous when he started getting lightheaded and nearly passed out
He then referenced the urban legend about Bond girl Shirley Eaton, who was gilded in gold for an iconic scene in 1964 film Goldfinger.
Eaton, now 87, is still alive to this day, but many believed she died from asphyxiation or skin suffocation because of the metallic body paint during filming.
Bryce Dallas Howard, Cranston’s Argylle co-star who joined him on the talk show, was convinced it was ‘not safe’.
Cranston continued telling his story of how he started feeling dizzy and the crew quickly went into action.
‘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.’
Cranston and Howard were on the show to promote their upcoming film Argylle.
During their appearance, Howard also dished on the spy movie and shut down the viral Taylor Swift-Argylle conspiracy theory.
For the scene in a season two episode of the long-running sitcom, he said his character Hal Wilkerson was ‘in a depression ‘ and started painting. At the end of the scene, the Breaking Bad star recalled being covered ‘completely, head to toe, in blue paint’
The family comedy followed the dysfunctional Wilkerson family for seven seasons from 2000 to 2006. Cranston starred as the father named Hal
‘It’s not safe,’ he explained on The Graham Norton Show on Friday. ‘Because your body can’t regulate the heat if you’re covering up all your pores’
Bryce Dallas Howard, Cranston’s Argylle co-star, joined him on the talk show to promote their upcoming film Argylle — which will premiere in theaters on February 2
The story follows a reclusive author named Elly Conway — who is played by Howard.
The character is based on the unknown, first-time author of the debut thriller Argylle, the inspiration for the upcoming film of the same name.
In the film, Conway writes best-selling espionage novels about a secret agent named Argylle — who is played by Cavill.
According to the synopsis, ‘the plots of her books start to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization’ and ‘the line between fiction and reality begin to blur’.
The star-studded cast includes Dua Lipa, Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, John Cena, Ariana DeBose, Haruka Ohshima, and Sofia Boutella.
Argylle is set to receive a theatrical release on February 2 before being released on Apple TV+ at an undetermined, future date.
