Why Bryan Cranston bowed out of directing a comedy about the KKK

Bryan Cranston is acknowledging his white privilege. The Tony-winning actor has revealed that he stepped away from directing a comedy about the Ku Klux Klan and instead took a part in another play about Holocaust denial. In 2019, the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles offered the actor, 65, an opportunity to direct. The play Cranston had in mind was a 1984 comedy called “The Foreigner,” by Larry Shue, about an Englishman who spoils a plot by the Ku Klux Klan to convert the Georgian fishing lodge where he’s staying into a Klan headquarters. But the murder of George Floyd and… Read Full Article