The Breaking Bad star worked in the special effects department of the 1980 creature feature.

Warning: This post contains spoilers forAlligator.

Bryan Cranstonis an acting legend thanks to his portrayal of Walter White inBreaking Bad.

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Bryan Cranston worked in special effects department of the 1980 film ‘Alligator’.Image Group LA/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images

“So, I said, maybe that’s a new path that I can take.

I’m tired of being an extra and I want to learn something new.

It was really boring and I thought, I’m not really learning anything this way.”

Alligator

Alligator.Scream Factory

And I happened to hear that, and I turned and I said, ‘I’ll do it.

I’ll do it.

Get me out of here, I’ll do it, I’ll do it’ …

Alligator

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So, I became the assistant to the assistant’s assistant.

I’m not kidding.

I was that far down the totem pole.

And I was the least experienced, but I guess the most willing.

And we were tasked with filling the hero alligator with packets of blood and guts.

This was going to be an alligator that blew up at the end.

Watch Cranston talk aboutAlligatorbelow.

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