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Bryan Cranston Says He Was Once Wanted for Murdering a Chef

Bryan Cranston recounted the time he and his brother were suspects in the murder of a chef in Florida during the 1970s.

Bryan Cranston casually recounted the time he was briefly a suspect in a murder case during his appearance on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Dinner’s On Me podcast. Cranston was prompted to share the tale — which he previously wrote about in his 2016 memoir — after Ferguson noted that recent guest Ed O’Neill revealed he’d once been approached to join the mob while growing up in Youngstown, Ohio. By the time they got to Daytona, Florida, they were broke, so they picked up jobs as servers at a restaurant overseen by a “cantankerous chef named Peter Wong, who just hated everyone,” Cranston said.

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