Bryan Cranston Was Once Accused Of Murdering His Co-worker: 'They Put Out An APB On Us'
"Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston once became the subject of an all-points bulletin (APB) after his former colleague turned up dead.
On Tuesday's episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson's podcast "Dinner's on Me," the 67-year-old actor recounted the time he and his brother Kyle became murder suspects in the 70s.
Cranston said he was traveling the country with his brother at the time. They stopped in Florida and got jobs as waiters at the Hawaiian Inn restaurant.
But soon after they left Florida to resume their expedition, the restaurant's chef, Peter Wong, went missing for two weeks until his body was found in a car trunk.
"Little did we know that right at the time we said goodbye and left the job, Peter Wong went missing. He was not found for a week, week and a half, two weeks," the multi-awarded actor recalled.
He continued, "Little did we know, they put out an APB on us and to find us. We were somewhere in the Carolinas, I think, at that point."
The actor admitted that it came to a point when people started pointing fingers at them.
Fortunately, the real culprits, Billy Wayne Waughtel and two accomplices, were arrested by the police before the Cranstons were found.
This was not the first time the "Wakefield" star talked about how he and his brother became murder suspects.
In 2017, he appeared as a guest on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" alongside Timothée Chalamet.
When Corden asked him what he was doing when he was 22 years old, he shared that he was riding a motorcycle across the country and became a murder suspect.
"I was wanted for murder. I actually was. For a short period of time, I was riding around the country on my motorcycle because I didn't know what I wanted to do," he said at the time.
"So, I took off for two years and did odd jobs here and there. One [of] my jobs was at a Polynesian restaurant in Daytona Beach, Florida. There was this chef named Peter, and Peter was a horrid man. He hated everyone," he continued as Corden and Chalamet listened to him attentively.
"So all the waiters talked about 'How will we kill Peter?'... We talked about it all the time," he quipped.
He revealed that the police came into the restaurant once and asked if anybody ever talked about killing Peter, and the others said, "Cranston did."
The actor also shared this anecdote on the "Late Show with David Letterman" in 2011, per the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
