While talking to the folks over at Collider about his films like Drive, Rock of Ages and more, Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston revealed that he was amost cast as the villain 'Sebastian Shaw' in Fox & Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. Here is what he had to say:
I read for the Kevin Bacon role in X-Men: First Class, and it was like "Oh yeah, that’s a possibility," and then there was this thing happening over here. It’s kind of like things coming up like materials and projects that are coming in and out, because quite often it’s almost like a wave, “Oh here it comes, oh no that wave didn’t break. Why? Funding went this way, the lead dropped out, any number of things can happen.
Cranston is a great actor, and I'm sure he would be perfect playing the villain. Maybe he will have time to do a sequel playing another character? Now that would be awesome. What do you think?