„The Studio“ -Star Bryan Cranston nennt David Zaslav auch „langweilig“, um seinen Charakter zu stützen, enthüllt echte Inspiration

>“I did a deep dive on (Zaslav) and I thought, ‘Well, he’s so boring,’” Cranston told the audience on Saturday at the Television Academy’s Televerse festival. “There’s nothing funny about David. I’m sure he’s a great CEO.”

>Cranston was also quick to brush off the theory that Mills is based off Tim Robbins’ producer character of the same name from the 1992 film “The Player.” Instead, he credited the writers for creating the character and said that he found inspiration for his performance from the audiobook “The Kid Stays in the Picture,” written and narrated by producer Robert Evans. The actor then humored the crowd with an impression of the old Hollywood mogul recounting his pursuits of a beautiful woman in the Paramount commissary.

>After listening to the memoir, Cranston said that his reaction was, “Oh my God. That’s inappropriate at every level. This is the guy I’d like to play.” He then celebrated the fun of playing Mills, who serves as an antagonist throughout “The Studio,” prioritizing profit over creativity and indulging in every outdated, politically incorrect habit of Hollywood’s old guard.

>“In shooting this show, we were free to do every single inappropriate thing we ever thought of,” he reflected. “That’s the fun. We get to let you know dark sides of our character, or their inappropriate sides. It was a blast.”