Bryan Cranston
Bryan Cranston has dominated the Emmys in recent years, winning three straight awards from 2009-11 for best lead actor in a drama series for his role as Walter White on Breaking Bad.
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‘Breaking Bad’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann "I love to act. But if it ever got to the point where you couldn't really fulfill your job, I think that's when I would hang it up," Bryan Cranston says.
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Damian Lewis
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann Homeland's Damian Lewis on the actor he connected with: "I really responded to Jack Lemmon and a British actor working at the moment called Mark Rylance. He was a generation ahead of me, and I used to see him as a student at school and was just cowed by his brilliance."
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‘Homeland’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann "I remember something that you [to Sutherland] said once, which I thought was really pertinent. As the bottom fell out of the independent film market, all those people were gravitating toward cable TV," Damian Lewis said during the THR drama actor roundtable.
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Drama Contenders
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann Bryan Cranston, Damian Lewis, Peter Krause, Jon Hamm, Kelsey Grammer and Kiefer Sutherland speak candidly about their craft, their current shows and past experiences during THR's drama actor roundtable.
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Black and White
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann The Emmy contenders take part in THR's annual drama actors roundtable.
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Jon Hamm
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann Mad Men's Jon Hamm on his worst moment as an actor: "Mine would be living in L.A. for 10 years and not working, having no money and no prospects. The days were kind of great; it was the long nights staring at the ceiling waiting for the phone to ring. The uncertainty is always the difficult part, at least it has been for me."
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‘Mad Men’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann "I have a special relationship with Matt [Weiner]. I can ask questions, but I made a decision early on in the run of the show to trust that he's going to tell the story," says Jon Hamm.
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Kiefer Sutherland
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann "24 was an amazing experience. I did not run into what you described with the networks. They did not recut our stuff. I think the secret was we shot so far out in Simi Valley that no one wanted to drive out there," says Kiefer Sutherland.
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‘Touch’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann "The ambiguity is fantastic. When I call home I can tell my mom, 'It's much bigger than you think it is and much better than you think. Huge DVR numbers,' " Kiefer Sutherland says of the lowered audience expectations for shows.
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Kelsey Grammer
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann Boss star Kelsey Grammer opens up about the show's low ratings: "Well, if it was HBO it wouldn't be a relief; it would be, 'You're on the chopping block.' But because it's Starz, you have an opportunity to kind of brand the network. I think there is a more generous, open expectation about it."
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‘Boss’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann "We don't work more than 10 hours in a day on Boss," the former Fraiser star revealed.
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Peter Krause
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann Parenthood's Peter Krause recounts a horrifying moment years ago: "I was doing summer stock in Woodstock, New York, and unbeknownst to me, we shouldn't have been drinking the well water. It's in a barn, I'm wearing a tuxedo and in incredible gastronomic pain. Things progress, I'm in a panic, and I soil myself. All I could think was, how far is it to the lodge where I can get to the bathroom? It was the most terrifying experience I've ever had as an actor."
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‘Parenthood’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Wesley Mann Peter Krause, who previously starred in HBO's Six Feet Under, on fighting for certain things on his NBC drama: "On Parenthood, Jason Katims allows us to bend the dialogue a little bit, but he takes it all back in the end and edits the way he wants. There have been times when he's taken scenes from one episode and it appears in another if the timeline works out right. So he's quite open and free with his own writing in terms of the end product."