Bryan Cranston was offered a role in ‘Spotlight’ and regrets turning it down
Bummer.
Can you imagine a Spotlight movie without Michael Keaton or Mark Ruffalo or Brian d’Arcy James’s mustache? Really, can you? In some alternate reality, the Academy Award-winning film, about The Boston Globe investigation into the systemic sexual abuse of children and years of coverup in the Catholic Church, could’ve had a slightly different cast — one that featured Bryan Cranston.
The actor, who’s won many awards for his role in Breaking Bad, said in an upcoming interview on Larry King Now that he was offered a role in the movie, but it didn’t work out.
“I had to turn it down because I was already committed to [The Infiltrator] and there was a crossover of time,” Cranston told King. (The Infiltrator is Cranston’s upcoming movie about Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.) “I had to turn it down.”
Cranston didn’t specify which role he was in the running for, but he added to King that after he saw Spotlight, he gave it a thumbs-up.
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