Matthew Broderick and John Cusack were the first choices to play Walter White in Breaking Bad!

Matthew Broderick and John Cusack were the first choices to play Walter White in Breaking Bad!

For fans of Breaking Bad, it might be hard to imagine anyone other than Bryan Cranston as Walter White.

In fact, Emmy voters find Cranston so good in his portrayal of a chemistry teacher-turned-meth dealer they have rewarded him with three statuettes.

But the actor previously best known for playing the dad on Fox's Malcolm in the Middle wasn't the first choice of network AMC or production company Sony Pictures Television.

Series creator Vince Gilligan had been impressed with Cranston's 1998 guest-starring turn on The X-Files, on which he played a desperate man suffering from radiation exposure, and pushed for the actor. But the suits had trouble envisioning Fox's suburban dad as their star and wanted to cast a big-name movie star.

Their first picks? Matthe Broderick and John Cusack, however, they both refused the role!

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