{"id":234002,"date":"2026-04-12T01:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/bryan-cranston-defends-breaking-bad-wife-when-frankie-muniz-says-he-wanted-to-kill-skyler-to-make-walts-life-easier\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:26:15","slug":"bryan-cranston-defends-breaking-bad-wife-when-frankie-muniz-says-he-wanted-to-kill-skyler-to-make-walts-life-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/bryan-cranston-defends-breaking-bad-wife-when-frankie-muniz-says-he-wanted-to-kill-skyler-to-make-walts-life-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Cranston Defends \u2018Breaking Bad\u2019 Wife When Frankie Muniz Says He \u2018Wanted to Kill Skyler\u2019 to Make Walt\u2019s \u2018Life Easier\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/bryan-cranston\/\" title=\"Bryan Cranston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bryan Cranston<\/strong><\/a> is defending his on-screen wife from his on-screen son!<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old <em>Breaking Bad<\/em> alum went head-to-head with his <em>Malcolm in the Middle<\/em> co-star <strong>Frankie Muniz<\/strong> for a new installment of <em>Hot One Versus<\/em> to promote the Hulu reboot. <\/p>\n<p>One of the question cards asks <strong>Bryan<\/strong> whether he prefers his <em>Malcolm in the Middle<\/em> wife Lois (<strong>Jane Kaczmarek<\/strong>) or Skyler (<strong>Anna Gunn<\/strong>). He chooses Lois purely from a character point-of-view, but then <strong>Frankie<\/strong> cuts in with a divisive opinion.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2195780\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I tell you an honest truth?\u201d <strong>Frankie<\/strong> started. \u201cI loved <em>Breaking Bad<\/em>. Obviously, everyone in the whole world loved it. I wanted to kill Skyler to make your life easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan<\/strong> immediately let his jaw drop to show his surprise, even as the younger actor continued, saying, \u201cYou were such a bad guy. You could have just gotten rid of her. All she did was complain. Look at the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan<\/strong> then came to Skyler\u2019s defense, as well as actress <strong>Anna Gunn<\/strong>\u2018s, noting that she \u201cgot a lot of blowback from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, first of all, <strong>Anna Gun<\/strong> is a superb actor,\u201d he said. \u201cBut she got like, \u2018Oh, why don\u2019t you get off his back?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how I felt,\u201d <strong>Frankie<\/strong> chimed in. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait a minute. Let me understand this,\u201d <strong>Bryan<\/strong> said. \u201cHer husband leaves without any explanation. She\u2019s pregnant. He\u2019s making crystal methamphetamine and people have died and <em>she\u2019s<\/em> the b\u2014h? Like, we couldn\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A seemingly chastened <strong>Frankie<\/strong> relents a little bit to say, \u201cWhen you put it that way, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frankie Muniz vs. Bryan Cranston | Hot Ones Versus\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etf6esjjjmU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan<\/strong> is correct in that there was a ton of vitriol aimed at Skyler while <em>Breaking Bad<\/em> was airing and discourse surrounding the character has persisted even a decade after it wrapped. <\/p>\n<p>In August 2013, <strong>Anna<\/strong> even wrote an op-ed in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/24\/opinion\/i-have-a-character-issue.html\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/24\/opinion\/i-have-a-character-issue.html&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em> aimed at Skyler haters, calling her a \u201ca kind of Rorschach test for society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch. But as a human being, I\u2019m concerned that so many people react to Skyler with such venom,\u201d <strong>Anna<\/strong> wrote at the time. \u201cCould it be that they can\u2019t stand a woman who won\u2019t suffer silently or \u2018stand by her man\u2019? That they despise her because she won\u2019t back down or give up? Or because she is, in fact, Walter\u2019s equal?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also called attention to some of the hatred at aimed at other \u201ccomplex TV wives\u201d like Carmela Soprano of <em>The Sopranos<\/em> and Betty Draper of <em>Mad Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/04\/23\/anna-gunn-reveals-how-peoples-opinion-of-her-breaking-bad-character-has-changed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Anna<\/strong> reflected on how the perception of Skyler has changed<\/a> and developed over the years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/04\/11\/bryan-cranston-defends-breaking-bad-wife-when-frankie-muniz-says-he-wanted-to-kill-skyler-to-make-walts-life-easier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Cranston is defending his on-screen wife from his on-screen son! The 70-year-old Breaking Bad alum went head-to-head with his Malcolm in the Middle co-star Frankie Muniz for a new installment of Hot One Versus to promote the Hulu reboot. One of the question cards asks Bryan whether he prefers his Malcolm in the Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}