‘The Upside’ Director on ‘Intense’ Bryan Cranston Performance and Being ‘Truthful’ to Disabled Character
“The Upside” director Neil Burger described a scene early in the film in which Bryan Cranston, portraying a quadriplegic man, nearly topples out of his wheelchair. It’s played for a laugh at Kevin Hart’s expense, but Burger said that Cranston was so committed to the role, he might’ve hurt himself if Hart wasn’t there to catch him.
“Bryan is such an intense actor, if he started to fall over, and there’s a scene where he does start to fall out of the chair, if they hadn’t gotten to him, he wouldn’t have protected himself,” Burger said in an interview with TheWrap. “He would have just fallen on his face just the way someone with a similar disability would have. He was all in in that way.”
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