Audrey Cleo Yap John Cusack takes on his first regular TV role in Amazon Prime Video’s “Utopia” as Dr. Kevin Christie, the charismatic, megalomaniacal CEO of a Silicon Valley-esque tech corporation hiding dark secrets.
But it’s rumored that Cusack turned down a different morally ambiguous role: that of Walter White in “Breaking Bad.” The role ultimately went to Bryan Cranston, who earned six Emmy awards, and Cusack confirms to Variety that he was never actually offered the part.“No, I never was, and it was one of those things where I heard it so many times I started to think maybe it was true.
And I ran into the creator of ‘Breaking Bad’ [Vince Gilligan], and I said, ‘Am I crazy or did you offer me Walter White? He’s like, ‘No,’” Cusack.
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