Odds and Ends From the Emmy Press Room

BuzzSugar — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:30:51 -0700

I'm still feeling the afterglow today from my time in the Emmy press room, where so many happy stars came to talk about their big awards. There are a bunch of tidbits I didn't get to share with you live, so to see what Bryan Cranston, Paul Giamatti, and Laura Linney had to say, read on!

Bryan Cranston was maybe the happiest guy on Earth when he came back to the press room, clutching his Emmy in one hand and the envelope with his name on it in the other. "I thought I was the dark horse, I really did," he said. "I thought I should have been in the back of the pack. Breaking Bad only had seven episodes to air. I didn't know if that would be enough sampling for the academy to take a look. I'm shocked and wonderfully surprised."
Cranston also talked a little about his bald head, a look he's currently sporting for the role as his character is going through chemotherapy (he's also lost 17 pounds, he said). Immersing himself in a character that way, he said, is "something actors dream about." That said, he compared baldness to having a skull made of velcro. "There are all kinds of things that are sticking to my head — fuzz, a jujube . . . "
Someone asked Jon Hamm about his reaction to his success and whether he was getting either a) shy or b) a big head. After laughing that both of those things were true, Hamm got serious: "I still feel like I'm in 10th grade and no one will talk to me at lunch," he said.
Laura Linney said she's still got a huge stack of history books by her bed, long after her work on John Adams was done. "I had a real understanding of how people get addicted to American history," she said, because each person leads to another. "I'm still reading, actually."

To hear from Jerry Bruckheimer, Jeff Probst, and January Jones, just

First Look: Breaking Bad

BuzzSugar — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:30:00 -0800

AMC struck it big with its first stab at original scripted programming: the Golden Globe-winning drama Mad Men. The cable channel's newest series starts Sunday, and with scripted shows fading fast due to the strike, it couldn't come at a better time.

Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston — best known as the dad from Malcolm in the Middle — as Walt White, a high school chemistry teacher with a struggling family. He's the kind of guy who just lets life happen to him until he's diagnosed with a terminal illness. That's when he decides to make a change, creating a meth lab in an old RV and generally raising hell. It sounds a little like Weeds meets The Bucket List, and that's an intriguingly bizarre combo.

With new TV dwindling by the day, are you up for giving Breaking Bad a shot? To watch a couple of previews, just

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Odds and Ends From the Emmy Press Room

First Look: Breaking Bad