“Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston officially threw his support behind Hillary Clinton for president, though he did so while praising current Republican front-runner Ben Carson.
Cranston is firmly on Team Hillary, though he told Politico’s Mike Allen he wishes the former secretary of state was “more to the center or even to the right” on monetary issues.
“I’m a social liberal but a fiscal conservative,” he said. “I don’t run my house that way. I don’t buy things I can’t pay for.”
To that end, Cranston commented on how much he liked Carson, who ranks second in the Washington Examiner‘s presidential power rankings.
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“I really like Ben Carson,” Cranston told Allen. “He is so calm and in control.”
He also said Carson would be a fun character to portray. The retired neurosurgeon was played by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 2009 TV movie “Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story.”
Cranston has been on a media blitz recently to promote his new film “Trumbo,” in which he plays the titular Dalton Trumbo, a Hollywood screenwriter and noted communist sympathizer who was blacklisted for his political beliefs.
When Allen asked if Trumbo bared any resemblance to Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked unprecedented amounts of classified information, Cranston said simply: “No. Snowden broke the law.”
Last week, in an interview with the Daily Beast, Cranston called Donald Trump, who is running neck and neck with Carson in polls, a “maverick,” and said he likes that there is a socialist candidate — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — opposing Clinton.
