The Detail About Bryan Cranston’s Pants On Breaking Bad That We Could Have Gone Without Knowing

In an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit from 2013, Aaron Paul answered a fan question asking whether there were any good stories about Bryan Cranston from on-set. One might be forgiven for dreading anything that follows the sentence, “Well we already talked about the dildo,” but that’s how Paul began his answer. What comes next is a tale of someone a bit too comfortable in their own skin.

According to Paul, Cranston isn’t wearing pants, even in the scenes where his character supposedly is. In any shot framed from the waist up, Cranston is sans pants. As the “Westworld” star related, “What you don’t know is that any close-up shot of Bryan on Breaking Bad where you didn’t see the lower half of his body, his pants were always off.” We dare you not to think about that the next time you binge the series. Try not to picture Cranston’s legs, unshackled from their khaki cages, with the cool desert breeze blowing across them just below the frame.

Paul provided no explanation for Cranston’s trousers-free sartorial sensibilities. Was it part of his acting method? Does he have sensitive legs unable to endure the friction of fabric against them? Does he simply find it funny? All Paul gives us is his word that the story isn’t fabricated (pun very much intended). “True story,” the former “BoJack Horseman” star wrote, “I’m not even joking. His pants are always off.”