Bryan Cranston Recalls being Covered in Paint on "Malcolm in the Middle"

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Bryan Cranston Recalls "Malcolm in the Middle" Blue Paint Stunt that Made his Body Start to "Shut Down"
by Emlyn Travis
January 27, 2024


Bryan Cranston is no stranger to performing out-of-the-box stunts, but he is shedding light on one he did for "Malcolm in the Middle" that could have killed him.

The actor reflected on his stunt work on the sitcom this week, revealing that his body once began to “shut down” while he was completely covered in paint for a season 2 episode.



"One time, I did a thing where my character was in a depression, and he started painting, and I was completely covered in blue paint," he recalled on "The Graham Norton Show" on Friday. "Completely, head to toe, in blue paint.”

"It’s not safe because your body can’t regulate the heat if you're covering up all your pores."



Things then took a dangerous turn during filming.

“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,” Cranston explained, miming being woozy. “And they went boom, and they grabbed me, and they threw me in the shower and they just… It was weird.”

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