Cranston, who will be 70 in 2026, says he wants to “change the paradigm once again,” learn the language of wherever they move and spend their days cooking and gardening.
“I want to have that experience,” he explains. “I want to go for day trips and have the fire in the fireplace and drink wine with new friends and not read scripts. It’s not going to be like, ‘Oh, I’ll read and see what I’m going to do.’ No, it’s a pause. It’s a stop. I won’t be thinking about [work]. I’m not going to be taking phone calls.”
He adds of temporarily stepping away from his career, “It’s about taking a chance. I’m used to that feeling — of not knowing.”“I’m curious about that family 20 years later,” Cranston says of. “What happened to them? Where are they? What are the kids doing? They’re grown men now.” 15-year reunion, but he thought, “‘In a quick five years from now we’re going to do the 20 and then the 25, then the… ’ It’s like, let’s not try to do too much.