Bryan Cranston on Winning an Emmy for The Studio & Trying Mushrooms for the First Time in Vegas

Our first guest tonight is an enormously talented actor who just won his seventh Emmy. He has six for making drugs on Breaking Bad, and now one for doing them on the studio. How you doing, bud? Oh, god. Oh, god. Who are you? It's Al Saperstein, man. BP Production. Oh, my god. I don't know you. Oh, hi. Hi, Gwen. Yeah, hello. You know her name. Me, too. All right, we're going to get him somewhere. My legs are working. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got to fire those quadriceps, buddy. Come on. Oh, my god. Oh, wow. Oh, right leg. Right. Good. Good. I had a lobster. You had a lobster? His name was Stuart. Oh, I love that. I love Stuart. Just sit him down. Sit him down. Here we go. Nice and easy. Sit him down. Jesus Christ. Are you a puppet? Oh, my god. We found him. Holy s***. Oh, my god. God, he's so f***ed up. The studio is on Apple TV Plus now. Please welcome Bryan Cranston. Oh. You know, good to see you. You look so normal now. You look like a normal person, you know? Am I not? I've been watching you on the studio, and it just kind of became you to me, I guess. Well, you know, when Seth Rogen says, do whatever you want, it's like, OK. Can I tell you something? Honestly, that is, and that scene, you've got to, that episode in particular, that's one of the funniest scenes I think I've ever seen in anything. I mean, it is fantastic. Fall in that gondola and start floating down. I mean, it is unbelievably funny. The character is so good, too. You know, initially, it was patterned after a certain studio head here, but I thought that that person was rather boring. Uh-huh. So I took a different one, Bob Evans. Robert Evans, who was a producer back in the 70s, and he wore the big chilis, and he had the suntan, and he was this guy. He would say things like, ah, this broad walked into the commissary, and I knew I had to have her. But then he would create, like, false modesty. But who am I? I'm a schmuck. I'm a nobody. Only to overcome that. But you know what? In the end, I got it. And I'm listening to this. So that's the guy. I wonder if Bob in those days ever got his hands on some mushrooms like your character did in that. I don't know. In those days, I don't know. I mean, yeah. I mean, they were around for a long time in the 60s. You, um, you, had you ever done mushrooms in real life? Is that something I can ask? I hadn't. You hadn't. Until the studio came along. Oh. So I'm playing this character who is wiped out. And I had never had any experience in that. Not many drugs at all, as a matter of fact. And so I didn't know really how to behave. So I was asking Seth Rogen and Ike Barinholtz, you guys are huge druggies. What can you tell me? Yeah. And he said, well, you know, you would start out with microdosing. I said, I don't even know what that is. What is that? Well, it's a microdose. You know? And I said, well, what would the effects be? And he said, well, we'll try something. I go, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on. And he said, and we were in Las Vegas shooting this crazy show with Seth Rogen and we all decided to go to the sphere to see the Grateful Dead. Great. That's the way to do it. If God wasn't telling me to do microdosing, what was he telling me? He was sending a message, yeah. So Catherine O'Hara and I were clutching each other like, you're going to try it? We'll try it together. You're going to try it? OK, we'll try it. And we were nervous. And Ike Barinholtz was our drug dealer. And can I say that? I think he can. And he said, I'll take care of you. And I said, I've heard that before. And so Catherine O'Hara and I were very nervous about trying it. He says, I promise you, I promise you, I promise you, it's not going to be anything. So he gave us these little thin square chocolates. You know what it is. I've seen it. But some people don't. And these little square chocolate, I go, it's a piece of chocolate. It's like a wafer. He goes, yeah. And so I broke it in half. I took it. Nothing. I didn't feel anything. Mm-hmm. And so he said, should I take it? Yeah, take it. It felt like maybe I took three sips of wine. It was nothing. You had no effect? Nothing! Really? It didn't kick in later and get you? No! Now I'm angry. What about? Yeah, I know, really. So you really are a great actor, it turns out. Because that was all acting. It was acting. I didn't know what I was doing. Speaking of acting, you won the Emmy. Congratulations. Thank you. Yes. This particular role. Thank you. At the non-televised Emmy Awards on Saturday was your award? Saturday and Sunday. They tell me it was Saturday. I was at a wedding in Minnesota. I see. Lizzie and Lucas's wedding. Hi, guys. And we were celebrating that. And that's been planned for a long time. And so the bride's mom, Callan, came over and said, you won. And at first I looked down at my plate and I said, taking the most food? And it left my mind. And I got to say that this wasn't televised, was it? No, it was a non-televised event. So I'm thinking, if an Emmy Awards is not televised, did you really win? It's an interesting question. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, well, I tell you what. So you're saying you have to get it on television? I think you have to record it in some way. I have an exciting surprise for you in that case. Would you mind actually taking a seat somewhere with our studio audience? You can just get up and have a seat in the crowd. Anywhere? Anywhere you like. The nominees. There's no seat. I'll sit here. We'll share a seat. The nominees for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series are Anthony Mackie for the studio. Ron Howard for the studio. Bryan Cranston for the studio. Marty Scorsese for the studio. Dave Franco for the studio. And Jon Bernthal for the bear and the winner. The Emmy goes to Bryan. Congratulations. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Oh, this is like the real thing. Jimmy. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay. Well, the person I really need to say thank you. Oh, I'm so sorry you've run out of time, but we will have more with Bryan Cranston. Mingling with the audience here. Bryan, the show is back. The commercials are over and yeah, well, yeah, come on here. Look at that. You want to pass it around? Yeah. Seriously, go ahead. Feel it. It's cool. You know what? I'm glad you did that because people love touching the Emmy, don't they? They like holding it. But you've got to be aware of the wings. The wings will take out your eyes. Yeah. When it comes around to you, feel the tip of the wing and you realize there's danger there. A lot of people have been killed by those Emmys. A lot of people have been blinded by those things. Well, I know that when I won my first, I slept with it and I had puncture marks all over my face in the morning. Where do you keep your many, many awards? I keep them in my office upstairs where I keep, you know, all little treasures of mine. I see. When people see them, they come up and look at them? Well, if they come upstairs and look at them, but I don't want them out in the main part of the house. Where do you keep yours? I don't have any, so it's not a problem. I keep them in my castle. There's something else that I have kept in my office, which I'm very proud of. It's a trophy that I think you're going to remember. Oh, I'm going to remember? You're going to remember this. Okay, alright. It is very, very important. I won it fair and square, and I want to give it back to you now because... To me? Yes. The, uh, yeah. What? The Statue of Limitations is up. It's a Statue of Limitations? It's a Statue of Limitations. They should get one of those. Oh, wow! That's right! The San Gennaro people, you know, you've raised so much money and awareness for the charities. That's... And they made this. This is a 198.6 pounds of a meatball. Yeah, we set the Guinness World Record for largest meatball, and my wife gave this to you because she didn't want it in our house. Oh, I... Okay, I take umbrage of that comment. What do you mean? Because I won it in a contest fair and square in a game you had outside called Win Jimmy's Crap. Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Molly asked me the question, what is your name? And I answered correctly. Yeah, yeah. And then you got my... So I won the meatball. And now I can have this back? Now it's yours. Oh, this is great. Okay, this is great. Thank you very much. So I want to bring up something that I know for you I know is better than an Emmy, all 70 are Emmys. Oh, it's got to be something pretty good. Is that your daughter, Taylor, is on the show The Pit, and she's great on it. Thank you. It's so much fun to see her on the show, and she plays such a delightful character. She plays a doctor on The Pit. She plays Dr. Mel King on The Pit, and she's a neurodivergent person who is so filled with love and empathy and care that it's part of what makes her a great doctor on the show. And actually, it's been a benefit to us in our personal lives. Whenever there's any malady going on, we call Taylor and say, these are the symptoms. What do you think it is? And she's actually said, well, you should check for this and that. And she was right. She knows from the show? Well, they have to. The Pit. The Pit is nominated for an Emmy. It is, yeah. And it's a fantastic show. Yeah, it is. It's a great show. And so is the studio. And we're hoping they could win it. When they start a season, they go for two weeks to a medical boot camp. Because as playing doctors and nurses, they really have to know what they're saying. Yeah, the show's very realistic. It's amazing, yeah. Your kid is not only an actor, but also a doctor. How could you be prouder than that? I know! And you have a movie also that I know that we wanted to mention. Oh, it's Everything's Gonna Be Great. Everything's Gonna Be Great. Everything's Gonna Be Great with Allison Janney. It's on all kinds of platforms. It's a feel-good movie. It's really sweet, and sad, and funny, and life. Everything's Gonna Be Great. Will you be doing season two of the studio? Well, I first go to London. I'm doing a play in London. So if you're in London, November, December, January, February, come see me doing All My Sons. Are Americans allowed into London? Because I know we're not letting them over here. Yes. Well, you have to give a dowry. Okay, alright, alright. I gave a cow and a chicken. Okay, alright. And that seemed to work. Alright, well, it's great to see you. Thank you, man. Congratulations on the Emmy, and thanks for my meatball. I'm glad to have it. You're back home, baby. You're back home. I miss you so much. All episodes of the studio are on Apple TV+. Now, the movie Everything's Gonna Be Great is video on demand. Now, Bryan Cranston, everybody, will be back with Christopher Lloyd. 20 million. That's right, yeah. That's why we're wearing these glasses. Thanks for being a subscriber. 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