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Bryan Cranston joked about Shia LaBeouf’s legal troubles during an interview with Frankie Muniz, who revealed he almost starred in “Holes.”<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n\n![](\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/04\/08\/USAT\/89519053007-20260409-ent-jane-kaczmarek-bryan-cranston-16-x-9-thumb-1.jpg?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0\"\/)
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Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek explain the return of the infamous back-hair shaving scene in “Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Bryan Cranston<\/a> just went all Walter White on Shia LaBeouf<\/a>.<\/p>\nCranston took a shot at the troubled actor during an interview with his “Malcolm in the Middle<\/a>” son Frankie Muniz<\/a>, who discussed missing out on LaBeouf’s role in “Holes<\/a>” to star in 2003’s “Agent Cody Banks<\/a>.”<\/p>\n“I was signed to be in the movie ‘Holes,’ and it was all 100%, like, they’re about to start filming, but then ‘Cody Banks’ was greenlit,” Muniz said in a conversation with Cranston for “Esquire<\/a>,” released Wednesday, April 15. “They were like, ‘Which one do you want to do?’ I immediately picked ‘Agent Cody Banks,’ but I remember everybody really pushing me to do ‘Holes.'”<\/p>\nMuniz said the thinking behind it was that the Walt Disney Pictures film was more dramatic, with the actor wondering if he would have been “taken more seriously as an actor,” especially given that the prison comedy-drama film jumpstarted LaBeouf’s film career.<\/p>\n
“I wonder what my career or my life would have been [like] \u2026 I mean, that’s what every decision you’re making,” Muniz continued.<\/p>\n
But Cranston found the silver lining.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair’ revives shaving scene<\/p>\n
Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek explain the return of the infamous back-hair shaving scene in “Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Bryan Cranston<\/a> just went all Walter White on Shia LaBeouf<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cranston took a shot at the troubled actor during an interview with his “Malcolm in the Middle<\/a>” son Frankie Muniz<\/a>, who discussed missing out on LaBeouf’s role in “Holes<\/a>” to star in 2003’s “Agent Cody Banks<\/a>.”<\/p>\n “I was signed to be in the movie ‘Holes,’ and it was all 100%, like, they’re about to start filming, but then ‘Cody Banks’ was greenlit,” Muniz said in a conversation with Cranston for “Esquire<\/a>,” released Wednesday, April 15. “They were like, ‘Which one do you want to do?’ I immediately picked ‘Agent Cody Banks,’ but I remember everybody really pushing me to do ‘Holes.'”<\/p>\n Muniz said the thinking behind it was that the Walt Disney Pictures film was more dramatic, with the actor wondering if he would have been “taken more seriously as an actor,” especially given that the prison comedy-drama film jumpstarted LaBeouf’s film career.<\/p>\n “I wonder what my career or my life would have been [like] \u2026 I mean, that’s what every decision you’re making,” Muniz continued.<\/p>\n But Cranston found the silver lining.<\/p>\n