'Breaking Bad's' Bryan Cranston Steals the Show in 'Trumbo'

Bryan Cranston's first film following the end of Breaking Bad is the lead in Jay Roach's upcoming film Trumbo, which also seems like it might get some attention around Oscar season. "Cranston has cranked up his film work in recent years, with supporting roles in movies like Godzilla, Argo, and Total Recall," Yahoo! News reports.

Helen Mirren also stars in the film and had only wonderful things to say about Cranston when the film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. The film will apparently have some comedic elements to it seeing as Roach, who is best known for Austin Powers and Meet the Parents, is behind it. On the big screen, Trumbo "dramatizes how the scribe wound up blacklisted from Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s for being a Communist and how, after a stint in prison, he conspired to secretly churn out an endless cache of scripts under pseudonyms. While many of those scripts were written for a quick buck, two of them (The Brave One and Roman Holiday) would earn him eventual Oscars in 1975 and then posthumously in 1993, though Trumbo was never allowed to attend the ceremony," Yahoo! News reports.

Cranston spoke to the Hollywood Reporter about the film and specifically about his role and explains that the film is about "tolerance and acceptance of opinions that you don't share." He admits to only knowing some general knowledge about the blacklist, the Un-American Activities Committee and the hearings with Joseph McCarthy. He told Fox411, "I had heard the name Dalton Trumbo, and I knew he wrote Roman Holiday and Spartacus, but I didn't really know the extent of it...But he was a playwright as well and a novelist. Very prolific. Very opinionated. And he was a member of the American Communist Party."

The more the actor learned about Trumbo, the more interested he got. "The whole point of this movie that fascinated me is that, as Trumbo says in the film, 'We both have the right to be wrong...That we may have a difference of opinion, but your opinion doesn't threaten me, and my opinion shouldn't threaten you. That we should defend each other's right to be able to voice that opinion,'" Fox411 reports. We can't deny that Cranston rocks this roll and that it will be great to see him in the lead once again, playing a much different character and yet, in a way, still behaving rebellious and going against the odds set firmly against his character.