Actor Bryan Cranston sounded a hopeful note while discussing President-elect Donald Trump on The Today Show Tuesday, telling host Matt Lauer that while he didn’t vote for the Republican, he hopes he’ll do a good job as president.
“He was not my candidate, but he is going to be my president, and I truly hope he does an exceptionally good job,” the 60-year-old Breaking Bad star said. “I really do, because if that is true, he has done well for the country, and that’s much more important than who I personally wanted to be president.”
Cranston — who appeared on Today to promote his forthcoming comedy Why Him? — also told Lauer that he desperately wanted Trump to give him a shout-out on Twitter over his Saturday Night Live cameo last weekend, in which he reprised his role as meth cook Walter White, who in one sketch is being considered to head Trump’s Drug Enforcement Administration.
Cranston’s comments on Trump are reminiscent of his initially hopeful thoughts on the candidate during the early days of the long presidential campaign. In August 2015, the actor told Nerdist that he found something “refreshing” about Trump’s candor.