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Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul have ruled out a Breaking Bad holiday special and will tour Australia and New Zealand in January 2027, with tickets on sale September 30.
Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul have ruled out any chance of a Breaking Bad holiday special. The two stars, who played Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, made clear the show's dark ending will not be brightened by a Christmas episode.
Breaking Bad Stars Reject Christmas Special Plans
Instead, they are heading to Australia and New Zealand for an unscripted live tour in January 2027. Tickets go on sale September 30, with information at fane.com.au/cranstonandpaul. Cranston laughed off the idea of a festive special. He imagined someone suggesting A Very Breaking Bad Christmas.
He said he would respond, you need to lie down. I am not doing it, and I need to take care of you because something is wrong. Can you imagine? He added that it is important for human beings not to be so sentimental about leaving something.
That allows space to move into something else, he said. That is our lives. It is cyclical. We have to end something in order for something new to begin, but the sentiment tends to make people ask, would you not love to go back?
Paul agreed the ending should be left untouched. It ended so beautifully, you do not want to mess with that, he said. It is perfect, the way it was. Yet 13 years later, the show still cannot be fully closed.
Cranston And Paul Announce Unscripted Australia Tour
The series followed a high school chemistry teacher who, after a stage 3 lung cancer diagnosis, turns his home into a methamphetamine lab with a former student. It continues to top best of all time audience polls. Cranston and Paul are heading to Australia for what is described as an unscripted evening with two men, five years of behind-the-scenes stories, and a lifelong friendship. Think of it as a slide night crossed with a TED Talk.
The format is familiar to Australian audiences who have seen similar touring shows by John Cleese, Eric Idle, Brian Blessed, Carrie Fisher and The Goodies. It is a relatively new genre for a pair of American TV actors. We want to bring a very entertaining evening, Cranston said. We have a lot of stories personally and together, and we have some ideas to present some really fun moments.
We will show some clips and do a couple of crazy things. We want the audience to leave every night after a show and go, oh man, that was fantastic. That is our job. The biggest takeaway for the two has been an enduring friendship formed in the infancy of the series.
Paul compared the start of a project to going away to summer camp. You hope for the best, he said. You hope that you connect with some of these kids. Am I going to make friends?
Or am I going to be the person in the corner not talking to anybody? Sometimes you think you will be friends forever, but then life takes hold. Cranston was the greatest leader on a set you could ever wish for, Paul said. He is the hardest worker, but he loves to have a good time while doing so.
We quickly realised we have the same work ethic. We come ready, we come prepared, we are ready to do the work. We are not going to mess this up. We are going to give it our all.
Stars Share Friendship And Mezcal Brand Dos Hombres
That off-screen chemistry led to an independent artisanal mezcal brand, Dos Hombres. Stars with alcohol products are common: George Clooney and Matthew McConaughey have tequilas, Ryan Reynolds has a gin, and Brad Pitt and Kylie Minogue have roses. Asked if the market is competitive in Los Angeles, Paul answered diplomatically. I do not feel that, he said.
We just know how we do the work. This was all self-funded. This was our brainchild. It was not an operation that came to us asking if we wanted to make a quick buck.
We just focus on the dedication to the work. The original series was wild even by cable TV standards and drew criticism for turning drug manufacturers into storybook heroes. Cranston said, I always saw the show as poor choices made by human beings at any given part of their lives. It also made surprising observations about the world, at least in American terms.
It illuminated the deficiency in the healthcare system that we have in the United States, Cranston said. The fact that teachers are not paid what they should be paid and my character needing a second job, it is shameful really, in that sense on those two issues. The immortality of the show was not wholly surprising, as its significance was clear when it popped in the cultural zeitgeist during its second season.
In Australia, its early popularity was bolstered by DVD boxed sets, when digital hard media fuelled a collector boom. It just keeps surprising us, Paul said. We always knew it was special; the moment we landed on Netflix it just exploded globally. Brian won best actor Emmy from doing seven episodes of the first season.
The critics really praised us from day one, and then Netflix kind of changed the game. Cranston likened it to becoming a parent for the first time. You do not really know what it is going to be like, he said. When we were making the show, we just knew that it was really well written and if we did not screw it up, that we might have a chance to make a good show.
Then it became something bigger than any of us could imagine. Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will tour Australia and New Zealand in January 2027. Tickets go on sale September 30. For more information, see fane.com.au/cranstonandpaul.
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