Bryan Cranston On Voicing Monsters For Old Power Rangers Episodes

With the new 'Power Rangers' movie coming to cinemas this week, Bryan Cranston reflects on his first forays into the original franchise, where he got to voice some of the villains in the 90s TV series 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'. It's safe to say he's glad to be back.

Bryan Cranston stars as Zordon in Power Rangers

The 'Breaking Bad' star plays the character Zordon in the 2017 'Power Rangers' movie; the million-year-old mentor of the teen superheroes who is much less a person than a shape in the Morphing Grid. However, his original ventures into the world of 'Power Rangers' meant voicing bad guys in the television series. 

'I got a job dubbing some of the dialogue from Japanese into English and I was glad to have that job', he revealed. 'My voice, even though I was much younger, it was always still kind of low so I always did the monsters: 'You will not escape me!' That kind of thing.'

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His short stint included voicing the characters Twinman and Snizard in two 1993 episodes entitled 'A Bad Reflection on You' and 'Foul Play in the Sky' respectively. 'It was fun to do, it was also my introduction to being able to convey a story through just your voice', he continued. 

'How do you convey emotion - anger, upset, dejection, glee, whatever - through just your voice? That was a great learning experience, I was really grateful to have the job too. That was a long time ago.' Since then, Bryan has lent his voice to many dubbed shows including 'Macross Plus', 'Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie' and 'Armitage III'. 

Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Ludi Lin and Becky G are the Power Rangers

The 'Power Rangers' cast also includes Dacre Montgomery as Jason (Red Ranger), Naomi Scott as Kimberly (Pink Ranger), RJ Cyler as Billy (Blue Ranger), Ludi Lin as Zack (Black Ranger), Becky G. as Trini (Yellow Ranger), Elizabeth Banks as villainess Rita Repulsa and Bill Hader as Zordon's robot assistant Alpha 5.

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Bryan Cranston will be lending his voice to a new movie: Wes Anderson's 'Isle Of Dogs' also starring Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Bill Murray. He's also shooting new comedy drama 'Untouchable' with Nicole Kidman, has completed work on the Richard Linklater project 'Last Flag Flying' and is set to begin work on sci-fi anthology series 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams'. Plus, he will play himself in James Franco's forthcoming movie 'The Disaster Artist' which looks at the making of Tommy Wiseau's 'The Room'.

'Power Rangers' is set to arrive in theatres this Friday (March 24th 2017).