Bryan Cranston discusses confronting his own white privilege in a candid interview with the Los Angeles Times. The 65-year-old explains how, after two years of grief and pain, he ditched his plans to direct an L.A.
production of “The Foreigner”, in which an Englishman stops the Ku Klux Klan from converting the Georgia fishing lodge where he’s staying into a Klan meeting place.
Cranston tells the publication, “It is a privileged viewpoint to be able to look at the Ku Klux Klan and laugh at them and belittle them for their broken and hateful ideology. “But the Ku Klux Klan and Charlottesville and white supremacists — that’s still happening and it’s not funny.
It’s not funny to any group that is marginalized by these groups’ hatred, and it really taught me something.” READ MORE: Paul Stanley’s Son Evan Covers Maroon 5 With A Little Help From Bryan Cranston He continues, “And I realized, ‘Oh my God, if there’s one, there’s two, and if there’s two, there are 20 blind spots that I have….
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