USA.- With Bryan Cranston recently returning to feature films with Jerry & Marge Go Large in Paramount+, the journalist Steve Weintraub had the opportunity to interview the star of breaking bad to discuss his new comedy with Annette Benning.
The film is based on an article by Huffington Post of the same name that follows Jerry and Marge Selbee a married couple of Evart, Mich. who live a normal, homey, folk life until they hit it big. After Jerry finds a loophole in the lottery winfall from Michigan, they begin to rake in the dough, using the money not just for themselves, but for the entirety of Evart. While much of the interview focus was on the film, the talk inevitably strayed to the director. Wes Anderson.
Cranston has worked with the legendary director twice. His first, however, didn’t give him the full Anderson experience, as he was simply voicing him to the director’s only animated film of 2018, Isle of Dogs. Although he came to star as Chief with Koyu Rankin, it didn’t compare to being paired with Anderson again in his next movie Asteroid City.
With a legendary cast that has Cranston alongside Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks, Scarlet Johansson, Maya Hawke Y Steve Carell, the finer details of the film are kept under lock and key at the moment with the only major plot detail being set in a fictional American desert town as students and their families gather for a youth stargazing convention.
Asked if he ever thought his voiceover work would one day lead to a call to work with Anderson in live action, Cranston spoke about earning his trust and how different it was to be on set with the director. He described both the daunting task of adjusting to his meticulously planned vision of him and the family atmosphere that came with being a part of his film:
When you work for an author like that, it’s a great exercise in trust. We made this film, Asteroid City, in Spain, and it was not an easy job. Working for Wes is not easy. It’s very detailed and very specific, so you really have to focus a lot. What compensates for that is the sympathy and the union of the experience. We are all in this five-star hotel in Spain and every night is a banquet. Every night you’re exchanging thoughts and laughter and someone brings a guitar, and you’re singing, and you’re talking. It’s so familiar. It’s like fulfilling an actors’ dream camp. It was a very, very good experience, although, once again, the work was very specific and very difficult.
Anderson has a distinctive style in her work, which fits with the saying “every frame is a painting.” It’s part of why the director has received such widespread acclaim, receiving seven Oscar nominations for his work. Despite the difficulty, Cranston compared him to Hanks as someone everyone wants to work with. Furthermore, he describes the incredible amount of work Anderson would put in to convey to his actors what he wants, adding:
When someone like that calls, it’s the same thing, I did the same thing with Tom Hanks. When he asks for something, it’s like, yeah, and what am I doing? I say to Wes Anderson, yeah, what do you want me to do? That’s the way it is for all actors. We introduce ourselves and say, what do you want us to do, how do you want to do this? Wes makes an animatic and voices all the characters in the animatic, which he calls the cartoon. So we see it on a laptop. We watch the whole movie that he voices on a laptop and it’s like, oh, I got it. I see where you’re going. I see what you are doing and let me see if I can reach that goal, the character that you have already created. Let me see if I can aim my arrow at him and hit him on the bullseye
Asteroid City will see Anderson re-teaming with his collaborator from The French Dispatch and Isle of Dogs, Roman Coppola, to write the story. There’s no word on when the movie might be released, but it’s sure to be a big event when it finally hits theaters. For now, you can see Cranston in Jerry & Marge Go Large on Paramount+.
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Bryan Cranston Talks Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’ and His Unusual Directing