{"id":2149165,"date":"2025-11-11T16:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2149165"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:18:14","slug":"bryan-cranston-still-defends-one-role-that-made-him-a-prime-target-for-authentic-representation-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bryan-cranston-still-defends-one-role-that-made-him-a-prime-target-for-authentic-representation-advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Cranston Still Defends One Role That Made Him a Prime Target For Authentic Representation Advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bryan Cranston<\/a> plays a quadriplegic billionaire in the 2019 film The Upside<\/a>, which received significant backlash from disability advocacy groups. The Breaking Bad<\/a> actor defends his casting during an interview with the Press Association<\/a> and explained:<\/p>\n

As actors, we\u2019re asked to be other people, to play other people. If I, as a straight, older person, and I\u2019m wealthy, I\u2019m very fortunate, does that mean I can\u2019t play a person who is not wealthy, does that mean I can\u2019t play a homos*xual?<\/p>\n

Bryan Cranston instantly received backlash for these statements, but his defence does not stop here.<\/p>\n

Bryan Cranston Defends Disabled Role as \u201cbusiness decision\u201d<\/p>\n

The Upside<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bryan Cranston plays a quadriplegic billionaire in the 2019 film The Upside, which received significant backlash from disability advocacy groups. The Breaking Bad actor defends his casting during an interview with the Press Association and explained: As actors, we\u2019re asked to be other people, to play other people. If I, as a straight, older person, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2149166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2149165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bryan-Cranston-Still-Defends-One-Role-That-Made-Him-a.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149167,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149165\/revisions\/2149167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}