Bryan Cranston on the 'Malcolm in the Middle' Revival

Bryan Cranston talks about the "Malcolm in the Middle" revival.

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00:00This is like playing Hal again. This has to be so I mean I've been asking you

00:06about this for years. For years. It's fun. Hugging Linwood Boomer for years to get

00:13it going. Mark Malgan keeps asking me about it. No and we finally got it done.

00:19We did four episodes for Disney Plus and they're really good and in true

00:25Malcolm fashion. It's a push. It's crazy and surprising and it's gonna I think

00:36it's gonna really really affect people. People have to watch the original series

00:41to get the four episodes. I suppose it helps if they have some knowledge of what

00:49the show was before but I don't know that it's absolutely necessary. I'll say no.

00:55In all these years did you think of what Hal's backstory Lois's backstory was to

01:03this point? Yeah I I thought my my pitch was they still live in the same old

01:11crappy house and that everyone in the neighborhood it was so run down that it

01:18turned industrial but they held out and they would not sell to these vipers. So I

01:25I was pitching on showing a shot of our house surrounded by huge industrial

01:30buildings all around it. How'd that go over? It didn't go over. He goes yeah no.

01:35I said okay. Thank you sir. It's so good seeing you. Same here. Thank you.