Bryan Cranston almost ‘shut down’ during dangerous Malcolm in the Middle stunt

Bryan Cranston almost 'shut down' during dangerous Malcolm in the Middle stuntThe Graham Norton Show, BBC

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00:00 Like the writers on Malcolm in the Middle, were they kind of trying to prove a point that you would do anything?

00:06 Or were they trying to get you to kind of go, "Actually, I won't do that"?

00:09 Yeah, they did. They started to think about what can we do that he won't do?

00:13 What can we write that he won't do? I was strapped on a moving bus.

00:17 I was... I had 60,000 bees, stinging bees on me at one time.

00:25 I did a thing where my character was in a depression and he started painting,

00:31 and I was completely covered in blue paint.

00:34 Completely head to toe in blue paint.

00:37 And, you know, that's how the goldfinger young woman died.

00:42 I was going to say, that's not safe. That's not safe.

00:45 Because your body can't regulate the heat if you're covering up all your pores.

00:49 You look shocked by this. I am. But you're alive.

00:53 He was lucky. He was lucky.

00:56 How long does it take for you to cover all your pores and then, like, out?

00:59 It...

01:01 Good game. Good game.

01:02 It's like a part of me. You know, it's like, "Ooooh!"

01:07 You know, I don't know, but we were shooting and I was covered in blue paint,

01:10 and then as you shoot, you're moving around.

01:12 And then there was a part of me at one point, I was like...

01:16 starting to shut down the circuits, and they went, "Boom!"

01:20 And they grabbed me and they threw me in the shower and they just...

01:23 Yeah. Yeah. It was weird.

01:25 What a way to murder someone, right?

01:27 Like, to cover them in paint? Paint them to death.

01:30 It's a very slow way to murder someone.

01:33 Nearly finished.