Bryan Cranston has quelled speculation that his performance as the boss on Apple TV+’s “ The Studio ” was based on Warner Brothers CEO, David Zaslav . “I did a deep dive on (Zaslav) and I thought, ‘Well, he’s so boring,'” Cranston told the audience on Saturday at the Television Academy’s Televerse festival. “There’s nothing funny about David. I’m sure he’s a great CEO.”
Cranston, who plays eccentric studio head character Griffin Mills, took the stage alongside Seth Rogen, James Weaver, Kathryn Hahn, Chase Sui Wonders and Dave Franco to discuss their Emmy-nominated work on “The Studio.”
Cranston was also quick to brush off the theory that Mills is based off Tim Robbins’ producer character of the same name from the 1992 film “The Player.” Instead, he credited the writers for creatin