This very funny video with Bryan and his Breaking Bad co-stars Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul and Betsy Brandt was made after his Emmy win last year, I never got round to posting it, but I felt better late than never.
Bryan Cranston’s face would be right at home in a cartoon. It just has an especially elastic quality to it. “I’ve been teased by my family all my life,” said Cranston “I can open up a jar of pickles and make the most excruciating face. . . . I don’t even know I’m doing it.” – latimes.com
20 September – Bryan won for the 2nd year running in the category Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Walter White in Breaking Bad at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy awards. Congratulations Bryan!
Watch Bryan accept the award above and below chat in the press room and on the red carpet…
Bryan Cranston has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role of Walter White in Breaking Bad. Bryan was also very excited for his co-star Aaron Paul’s nomination for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ and the show for ‘Best Series’. Breaking Bad has already won an Emmy this year for editing. The predications are looking good for the show. The Emmys air live tonight 8pm EST on CBS. Can Bryan win 2 years in a row?
It’s like being crowned homecoming king, except you don’t have the pimples anymore….It’s one of those things where you get the call in the morning and you think, ‘Oh, my God, somebody died.’ You can’t imagine what that is for a split-second. You think no good can happen that early in the morning.
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Jane stars in legal drama Raising the Bar as Judge Trudy Kessler on TNT. We posted the whole first episode of Season 1 a while back, but now the Season 1 DVD is out and available on Amazon.com.
Season 2 started airing in June and has just finished mid-season with 12 episodes. The final 3 of the season will air early next year (2010).
Jane Kaczmarek (Lois) did a short interview with ExpressNightOut.com in June (before the divorce news broke) She seems very upbeat, “It’s a wonderful life” we can only guess if this was genuine or if she was just keeping things private.
» EXPRESS: “Raising the Bar” is such a change from your “Malcolm” days.
» KACZMAREK: The funny thing is that I went to Yale School of Drama, and the work that I got for years afterwards was serious stuff. I couldn’t even get auditions for comedies! After “Malcolm,” people now think of me as such a comedian. But “Raising the Bar” is really returning to what I’ve done for most of my career.
» EXPRESS: Do you prefer being on a drama?
» KACZMAREK: Doing comedy is really a blast, but “Malcolm” had its challenges, like working with children all the time. What I really love about “Raising the Bar” is working with adults. It’s fun to go to work and be surrounded by grown-ups — really, really good-looking grown-ups.
» EXPRESS: It is a very young, attractive cast.
» KACZMAREK: At 53, I’m the veteran. When I hang out with the other actors, I think, “Boy, they know a lot about computers and popular music.” And then I realize it’s because they’re 20 years younger. It’s funny to work with these boys who you think are so cute, and then you realize you could easily be their mother.
» EXPRESS: You once said a great thing about playing a judge was getting to wear comfy clothes under your robe.
» KACZMAREK: If there’s one thing that every actress asks before a scene, it’s “Are you going to see my feet?” If you are, you put on your beautiful shoes that are killing you. If you’re not, you put on your Uggs.
» EXPRESS: Your wardrobe must be all black robes and fancy collars.
» KACZMAREK: I love that because my character is unmarried, has no children and has no life other than her political aspirations, she really dolls herself up. You mostly see the robe, but they always add beautiful scarves, earrings and bracelets.
» EXPRESS: Are you a clotheshorse in real life?
» KACZMAREK: As I’ve gotten older, I realize I have a lot of beautiful things. What am I saving them for? Now I take the time in the morning to put on a nice necklace and a bangle. I feel so much better when I’ve put attention into what I’m wearing.
» EXPRESS: Your charity, Clothesoffourbacks.org, auctions celebrity clothes and swag for children’s groups.
» KACZMAREK: When Brad was on “West Wing” and “Malcolm” was in its heyday, you wouldn’t believe the stuff we’d get! If you were a presenter at an awards show, they would give you a gift basket that they’d usually have to wheel out to your car. It would make me anxious. I knew something had to be done with it.
» EXPRESS: You’ve kept busy since “Malcolm.”
» KACZMAREK: I take classes in letterpress, oil painting and music theory. I’m having a mad affair with Beethoven! It’s a wonderful life — kind of like college again.
April 3 2004 – Jane Kaczmarek (Lois) and then husband Brad launched the A World of Happiness music CD for kids. They sing a song entitled The Jiggles on the celeb filled album. Proceeds go to various charities, Jane picked the Children’s Defence Fund, who she often supports. The song is quite catchy and very well produced, I’m sure kids love it.
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At the launch event Jane and Brad taught kids The Jiggles dance, check out the photos in our GALLERY.
The CD was just recently re-issued so go and grab the whole album as an MP3 download on Amazon.com for $8.99 or just Jane’s track for $0.99 (Amazon.co.uk £6.99/£0.79)
Jane Kaczmarek and Bradley Whitford where married for 16 years and where considered one of the most successful celebrity couples. It certainly came as a shock to many. However with hindsight, we hadn’t seem them in public together for about a year. Bradley filled for divorce in June, they cite irreconcilable differences.
More interviewed Jane prior to the divorce going public and when asked about her love life “That’s a big no comment..” She continued by saying around her girlfriends she was able to be “safe and vulnerable” instead of “thinking I’m capable of doing everything,” she’s now inclined to call a friend and say, “Could you meet me tomorrow for coffee, I’m really in a bad place. It gives you such sustenance and courage to face whatever the day’s going to present to you.” She also said that while she once thought she could “go it alone and as long as I had some fabulous boy on my arm, or man, and my career was sailing, that’s all I needed,” she now realizes “how important, how healthy, and how necessary good supportive girlfriends are. To talk about kids, to talk about marriages, to talk about just life.”
There where reports that Jane was fighting for full custody of their children, however Jane said the break-up was amicable and custody will be split 50-50.
We hope that the process goes as smoothly as possible and are hearts are with their 3 children Mary (6) George (9) and Frances (12).
A highly interesting look into Jane’s life, in her own words.
There’s a saying that your emotional growth stops at the year you become famous – that’s if you become a celebrity when you’re 11, you never mature past the age of 11. My fame came when I was in my forties. I was grown up, so I think I was able to take the fame in stride. It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa. I had been doing the acting thing for so long that when it took off with Malcolm, it was hard because my kids would want me home with them. Every time Brad and I went to the Emmy Awards, the kids would weep! As an actor, I was thrilled to be nominated for something and there were the kids, weeping! You’re torn.
When I was on Malcolm, I’d often work 14 hours on the set. I would go days without seeing my children. I’d see the kids at night and they’d say,
“Mommy, will we see you at breakfast?”
“No, honey, I’ve got to work at 5:30.”
“Will we see you at bedtime?”
“No, it’s going to be a late night tomorrow night.”
We had a lot of good people helping us and the kids were okay, but you pay a price for that. I like to be with my children – not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they’re waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.
Taking on the role of Judge Kessler on Raising the Bar was much more of a practical decision than anything else.
My kids were born and growing up all during those seven years on Malcolm and that was a time-consuming enterprise. I took a couple of years off and didn’t work much and this came along. I told the producers [of Raising the Bar] my concerns: I wanted to be a full-time mom and work on a limited basis. And Judge Kessler was a character that I could do that with. I work about twenty days a year and I get to have my life the rest of the time. It’s a magnificent hobby.
I am thrilled to be back at work. Nothing feels better than doing a television show, having it be picked up and getting to film another season. That kind of stability in an actor’s life is very, very welcome. I’m also happy to go and be with grown ups every now and then. For two days an episode I get to go and have stimulating conversation with the people on Raising the Bar, who are funny and educated. People need that. Your brain would turn to mush if you were working on science fair projects all the time.
I’m lucky enough to make a living this way, to make choices as to how I want to spend my time. It’s important for women to be self-sufficient. To be able to make decisions about how you want to live and what you want to spend money on without having to ask someone else’s permission. That’s important to me.
There’s a wonderful quote from Marian Wright Edelman, who runs the Children’s Defense Fund: “Service is the rent we pay to be living.” The higher your intellectual or financial gifts, the higher your rent. In 2002, I started a foundation, “Clothes Off Our Backs,” which raises money for children’s charities by selling celebrity clothing and memorabilia through online auctions. We’ve raised over $4 million dollars all from, what I like to think of is, the embarrassment of riches. I always thought that, making it in Hollywood, I had a really high rent to pay. I have the greatest luxury of all, which is healthy children. That’s not the case for so many mothers and children in the world.
As for my daughters, I hope they learn from my experiences and the work that I’ve done. I hope they find some kind of employment that they love doing – something that feeds their creativity and their sense of order and their sense of productivity. I want them to always be aware of people less advantaged than they are. And I hope they know that the most important products you can have in your life are your children
Jane was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and still feels a strong connection with it (while currently living in Pasadena, California) in March she sent Governor Jim Doyle and legislative leaders a letter asking them to work on improving the state’s current film incentive program rather than scrap it. Film incentive make it attractive for film makers/produces to work in a location due to things like tax rebates. Governor Jim Doyle wanted it stopped due to a $5.7 billion budget shortfall, instead giving grants of up to $500,000 per year for projects that create permanent jobs.
One year hardly seems like a sufficient time to make an informed determination on whether the incentives should be discontinued…There’s something about this place…It’s magical, it’s beautiful. It offers everything you could possibly want.
Jane won’t normally work outside of California due to her children said she would make an exception if she could come to Wisconsin for work. She has supported the incentives since 2006 and has worked with the Film Wisconsin website in the past.
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