Holy Mackerel

newsweek:

In which Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston describes his fantasies of bashing his girlfriend’s head in, in the presence of Newsweek’s Andrew Romano.

“Have you ever ‘seen red’?” Cranston asks. “I mean, have you ever gone insanely mad, to where you are incredibly dangerous?”

“I did once, with a girlfriend who was nuts, a drug addict,” he says. “She was banging on my front door, and I was afraid to open it because she was a powerhouse kind of woman. I had to keep her out of my life. And I had this vision. In my mind, I opened the door—I was living in New York at the time—and I grabbed her by her hair, and I pulled her into my apartment. And on one wall of my apartment is real brick. A brick wall, 12 feet high. And I took her head, and I smashed it against the brick. Over and over and over again. Until I could see—I saw the blood splattering! I saw the brain matter! I saw…I envisioned that I killed her.”

Check out the full profile, “The Most Dangerous Show on Television,” in this week’s Newsweek.