Amy Jo Johnston (original pink ranger) asked David Yost (original Blue Ranger) what he thought of Cranston's casting. Yost is not happy.
In an interview from 2009 with IGN, they asked Cranston about his former ties with the franchise since he did some voicework for the show. This lead to the following exchange.
Cranston: One of my jobs as a young actor starting out was voiceover. I also did dubbing. A lot of dubbing and a lot of voiceover. [...] I had already been there for a number of years, just as a freelance guy coming in and coming out. [...] So I had been there for awhile already and then the Power Rangers came in . They actually named one of the Power Rangers after me.
Vince Gilligan: Yeah?!
Cranston: The Blue Power Ranger's last name is Cranston.
IGN: [Laughs] Wow, that's pretty funny.
Vince Gilligan: That's an awesome story!
Cranston: He's the fey one, that's the problem.
It's the last line of the interview so there's no follow-up, and it's essentially used as a "punchline" for the end of the article. Yost's problems with it are understandable given his own history wrestling with his sexuality, and the treatment he received on the set of the show because of it.
When IGN reused the excerpt about him doing voicework in a 2013 article, that last line was omitted.
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In other Power Rangers news, instead of just admitting he got some nice, fat check to play Zordon, Bryan Cranston said the script is what won him into signing onto the film. He was initially reluctant because he remembered it as "kind of farcical and silly and ‘pow’ and ‘zow’ — weird movements and things like that.”
"I wasn’t really high on it until I talked to the producer and read the script and talked to the director. After that I went, ‘This is different. This is as different a reimagining as the ‘Batman’ television series as it became the [Nolan Batman] movie series. You can’t compare those two, and nor can you compare this movie version of the ‘Power Rangers’ to that television series. It’s unrecognizable for the most part. There are tenets of the folklore that you hold onto for sure, but the inspiration is different, and the sensibility of it, and the approach to the film making is completely different.
"So the appropriateness of that, and real teenage life, and going through high school and the cliques and the popularity or lack thereof, and the bullies and all the different sections and sub-sections of high school life, and the insecurities of these kids and things like that — hopes and dreams — and you embrace all of that into a retelling of the ‘Power Rangers.’ And what you would get is this new version, this new reimagined version."
He clarifies that he doesn't think it'll be quite as dark as The Dark Knight since you're dealing with teenagers.
source:1/2/34
he tweeted about this last week, but sites are just picking up on it now
🤔Not cool. I'm not a fan of homophobes https://t.co/QfJ5O60ay0 last page last line. Fey/gay = a problem https://t.co/qVHwILjNVV
— David Yost (@David_Yost) June 22, 2016
In an interview from 2009 with IGN, they asked Cranston about his former ties with the franchise since he did some voicework for the show. This lead to the following exchange.
Cranston: One of my jobs as a young actor starting out was voiceover. I also did dubbing. A lot of dubbing and a lot of voiceover. [...] I had already been there for a number of years, just as a freelance guy coming in and coming out. [...] So I had been there for awhile already and then the Power Rangers came in . They actually named one of the Power Rangers after me.
Vince Gilligan: Yeah?!
Cranston: The Blue Power Ranger's last name is Cranston.
IGN: [Laughs] Wow, that's pretty funny.
Vince Gilligan: That's an awesome story!
Cranston: He's the fey one, that's the problem.
It's the last line of the interview so there's no follow-up, and it's essentially used as a "punchline" for the end of the article. Yost's problems with it are understandable given his own history wrestling with his sexuality, and the treatment he received on the set of the show because of it.
When IGN reused the excerpt about him doing voicework in a 2013 article, that last line was omitted.
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In other Power Rangers news, instead of just admitting he got some nice, fat check to play Zordon, Bryan Cranston said the script is what won him into signing onto the film. He was initially reluctant because he remembered it as "kind of farcical and silly and ‘pow’ and ‘zow’ — weird movements and things like that.”
"I wasn’t really high on it until I talked to the producer and read the script and talked to the director. After that I went, ‘This is different. This is as different a reimagining as the ‘Batman’ television series as it became the [Nolan Batman] movie series. You can’t compare those two, and nor can you compare this movie version of the ‘Power Rangers’ to that television series. It’s unrecognizable for the most part. There are tenets of the folklore that you hold onto for sure, but the inspiration is different, and the sensibility of it, and the approach to the film making is completely different.
"So the appropriateness of that, and real teenage life, and going through high school and the cliques and the popularity or lack thereof, and the bullies and all the different sections and sub-sections of high school life, and the insecurities of these kids and things like that — hopes and dreams — and you embrace all of that into a retelling of the ‘Power Rangers.’ And what you would get is this new version, this new reimagined version."
He clarifies that he doesn't think it'll be quite as dark as The Dark Knight since you're dealing with teenagers.
source:1/2/34
he tweeted about this last week, but sites are just picking up on it now