However, the victim did not even cook methamphetamine.
68-year-old Bryan Cranston portrayed one of the most iconic motion picture criminals of all time: a Breaking Bad his chemistry teacher who advances to become a meth-chef, Walter White/Heisenberg, is a complex, three-dimensional anti-hero. The character of the outlaw drug chef became memorable not only because of Vince Gilligan’s fantastic writing, but also because of Cranston’s amazing performance.
Well, the authentic acting may have also been helped by the fact that the actor was actually tried once in his youth – for murder.
In the 1970s, he and his brother decided to motor around America, and when they needed money, they took on odd jobs. Once they were burned out and started working as servers in Daytona, Florida, at a restaurant run by a chef named Peter Wong, who
“He was a terrible person, everyone hated“,
except for the women, Cranston said.
Unsurprisingly, the feeling was mutual: staff members often joked on weekdays about how they would cut Wong out—after all, there are plenty of ways to get creative in a kitchen.
“Some people said that they would beat him to death with their own wok, and others would have pushed him into the meat grinder – we had a good laugh about these”
Cranston said nostalgically. And although the assassination plans did not materialize, Wong suddenly disappeared just as the Cranstons were leaving Daytona to continue their motorcycle trip.
“He was very insecure and, as such faces tend to be, he liked to feel great. So he always had a wad of money with him, and he often went to dog races, for example, where he bet a lot. Someone noticed it, a young woman came up to him, told him that she thought he was a cute guy, and invited him over, and he went in.”
Cranston recalled.
Wong was cheated, beaten, robbed and locked in a trunk by the perpetrators who were caught later. When the police started investigating the case, of course they also questioned the restaurant workers, who opened up to the cops: they told about the morbid banter, said that the Cranston brothers also joked about the murder, and then resigned just before Wong’s disappearance.
