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Bryan Cranston is an actor known for portraying the role of Walter White in AMC’s iconic drama seriesBreaking Bad.With the role, Cranston found worldwide fame with his role and a chance to work with other directors on different projects.
Talking about his 2011 movie titledDetachment,Cranston stated that he did not get along with director Tony Kaye. Kaye, known for directing the iconic 1998 movieAmerican History Xalso had similar views about Bryan Cranston and the rest of the cast.
Bryan Cranston Talks About Working With Tony Kaye
Fans have often heard celebrities complaining about working with Tony Kaye and how difficult of a director he is.Breaking BadstarBryan Cranstonwas no exception since he narrated the time he worked with Kaye on the sets of his 2011 movieDetachment.
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In 2016, the actor sat down for an interview withGet a Job(viaFar Out Magazine), Bryan Cranston seemed disgusted that the interviewer had seen his film and even questioned whether they really liked it or not. Stating that the beautiful script was not adapted on the big screen properly, theMalcolm in the Middleactor went on to insult Tony Kaye and how he would not work again with the director.
“I’m surprised to hear that [you liked the film] actually. Because, I felt that Carl Lund, the writer of Detachment, wrote a really beautiful, haunting script. And I didn’t feel that it was honoured.”
He further continued,
“I don’t believe that I’ll be working with him [Tony Kaye] again. I didn’t not get along with him on a personal level, but I just honour the writing. I really think that writing is the most important element there is. It is the springboard. It is where everything starts. And if you don’t honour that, which I didn’t feel it was, then where are you?”
Cranston isn’t the only actor who has problems with Kaye since back in 1998, the up-and-coming actor Edward Norton had a feud with the director which led Tony Kaye from retracting his name fromAmerican History X.
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Edward Norton Had A Public Feud With Tony Kaye
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Back when Kaye was directing his first major motion picture titledAmerican History X,Edward Norton was cast in the lead role. After the movie was completed, the studio demanded the movie be cut as per their wishes. As reported byThe Telegraph,Kaye wasn’t all too happy about this request.
“I’m fully aware that I’m a first-time director, but I need the same autonomy and respect that Stanley Kubrick gets,”
Edward Norton helped the director cut down some scenes and when Kaye failed to show up with another cut, thePrimal Fearstar stepped in and showcased a movie filled with his ideas that the studio loved. This led to a feud between Norton and Kaye and the director wanted to disassociate himself from the movie. Making fun of the movie with different names, Tony Kaye even sued the studio for $200 million, but nothing worked.
In the end,American History Xreceived a rating of 8.5/10 on IMDB and 86% on Rotten Tomatoes and even got Edward Norton an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The movie is currently available to stream on Paramount+ in the U.S.
Source: Get a Job (viaFar Out Magazine)
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
