Shadowing Practice: Bryan Cranston on Becoming Walter White in Breaking Bad - Learn English Speaking with Video
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that we've seen you bear it all in a whole succession of roles.
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I made myself a note.
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You've appeared in your underwear, if not less, in Malcolm in the Middle, Trumbo, Wakefield, Breaking Bad.
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Now, what's with it, Brian?
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Is this an exhibitionist act or are you just able to subdue your vanity for a role?
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Well, when you look at it on the surface, no pun intended, of it,
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there is nothing more vulnerable than a person who is naked, figuratively or literally.
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And aside from those years that we spent in middle school or high school,
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when someone was publicly humiliated or embarrassed in public and the finger -pointing and the laughing and the giggling occurred,
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what I appreciated about the maturity of human beings is that once they are mature,
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they're in college or later, we don't laugh.
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When we see someone who's hurting, someone who's vulnerable or in pain,
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susceptible, publicly humiliated, we emotionally want to wrap our arms around them and protect them.
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And that's the joyous part of a human experience.
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And I count on that.
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I count on audiences going, oh my God, I feel for him in his pain right now,
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in his suffering, and I've been there.
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They relate to it, and they don't want to see it.
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And so they can cry with you or feel the depression or anxiety with you.
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And then hopefully the playwright
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and structure of the story lifts them up a little bit with you
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so they can you pull them out of that together
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and then you continue on with your story very well spoken well
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that old saying
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that luck is where opportunity meets experience tell me about how Breaking Bad came into your life it was just
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that I was very lucky I did a I wrote
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and directed a little movie independent movie out in the desert of california
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and i kept delaying it
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because i money kept coming in coming out coming in just
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a couple hundred thousand dollars on 35 millimeter film we're hustling
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trying to get this done it was a labor of love
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uh it was it was fun it's it's called last chance it starred my wife
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and we worked together it was beautiful but i delayed it
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so many times
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and i finally just said i can't delay it anymore i've
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got to do this i came back into Los Angeles after
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that and started editing
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and two days after I was in LA again I got
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a call from my agent saying there's a part on X -Files
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that you might be right for do you want to work
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oh yeah I could just use the opportunity to work I'm broke
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so I went and auditioned I got it that episode of X -Files was written by Vince Gilligan.
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He wrote a character that was despicable and ornery
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and an anti -Semite and just a nasty human being who was in trouble.
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And he wrote where despite his actions you still felt sympathies toward him.
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And that was my first introduction to the depth of Vince Gilligan's writing.
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Ten years later, after Malcolm in the Middle, Vince Gilligan contacted my agent and said,
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I'd like to see Brian for this new series called Breaking Bad.
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And I didn't remember him.
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I remember, oh yeah, I remember the writer.
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I don't remember what he looks like or what his name was.
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And I read this script, and I went, oh, my.
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But he was my champion to get that role
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because of the fact that I was lucky enough to be in that episode of X -Files that he wrote and produced.
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But he remembered it for 10 years.
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He remembered me.
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He remembered me.
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I didn't remember him.
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And he was my champion.
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Without Vince Gilligan, someone else is sitting in this chair right now talking to you.
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Now, true or untrue, that you, that Breaking Bad has meant so much to you, that you have a tattoo of it somewhere on your body.
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Well, that is true. But Dan, I...
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I can't show you where it is.
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It's a little embarrassing.
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No, I can't show you.
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Come on, I was going to say you said it.
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It's right here on my finger.
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I don't know if you want to see it.
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I got that.
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I don't have any other tattoos.
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I got this on the very last day of shooting Breaking Bad, and that is our symbol,
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B -R -B -A, from the table of elements.
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Now, as a person who's never been tattooed before, tell me about that
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so we're working on the very last day of production of
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Breaking Bad there are tears there's laughter there's embracing we know this was the end of something very special
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and a lot of the crew we're talking about I'm gonna
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get a tattoo I'm gonna get a tattoo I'm gonna crew guys they're gonna get tattoos
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so much so
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that I said we should hire a tattoo artist come to our party tonight let's do it there
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and then I kept thinking about it what could I get a tattoo that's
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so different it's not my generation you know
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and i thought why not where would i get a tattoo
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and so i i know i just thought you can't see it
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because i'm an actor yeah so i didn't want it to be seen
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and other people will say but you did people can't see
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that and i go it's not for other people this is for me
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and when i catch it i look at it and go wow
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that was that was a seminal period in my life more of my interview with brian cranson when we come back
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What I'd like to do is go down this list of roles.
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And you tell me what was the most difficult thing about doing the character.
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Let's start with Hal and Malcolm in the Middle.
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Well, I smile.
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I love playing him.
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Hal was afraid of everything.
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I wanted to be able to find the truth in fear with him,
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that he could be afraid of every little thing that could happen to a person,
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a bad husband, a bad father, lose his job, lose his identity, be alone, all these things,
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afraid of spiders, afraid of heights, he was afraid of everything.
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And so to try to find truth and honesty on that level, And once I found that,
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I feel then the truth in the humor can then come out to that.
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Difficult role when you play Dalton Trumbo in Trumbo.
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He, I so enjoyed playing him.
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He was a man of the times, a man seeking justice during the McCarthy era.
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And the story was really who he was, is a man saying, don't be afraid of ideas.
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That's not the thing to fear.
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That's the thing to embrace, ideas, and especially the ones that differ from yours.
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You may be a communist feminist, you may be a radical, you may be an ultra -conservative, you may be whatever.
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But it is not to fear that, it is to embrace the strengths of that.
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And ultimately that is what I see as the gift of America and our strength.
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Over deze les
In deze les ga je oefenen met het begrijpen en nabootsen van spontane spraak, zoals in een interview. Je leert hoe je emotie en diepte in je taal brengt, net als Bryan Cranston in de video over zijn rol als Walter White. Daarnaast werk je aan je IELTS spreekvaardigheid oefenen door te focussen op tempo, intonatie en natuurlijke uitdrukkingen.
Belangrijke woorden en uitdrukkingen
- Vulnerable (kwetsbaar): "Er is niets kwetsbaarder dan een naakte persoon, figuurlijk of letterlijk."
- Subdue your vanity (je ijdelheid onderdrukken): "Kun je je ijdelheid onderdrukken voor een rol?"
- Labor of love (arbeid van liefde): "Het was een labor of love, met mijn vrouw in de hoofdrol."
- Despicable (verachtelijk): "Vince Gilligan schreef een verachtelijk personage, maar je voelde toch medelijden."
- Anti - Semite (antisemiet): "Een antisemiet en nare mens, maar toch sympathiek."
Praktische tips voor schaduwspreken
De video heeft een conversatieel tempo, met pauzes tussen zinnen. Gebruik schaduwspreken om te oefenen: speel een korte zin af, pauzeer en herhaal direct na met dezelfde intonatie. Let op Cranstons stem: hij zakt bij emotionele momenten (zoals over kwetsbaarheid) en wordt iets sneller bij verhalen over zijn carrière. Schaduw spreken helpt je om deze nuances te leren. Herhaal de delen over "vulnerability" en "labor of love" meerdere keren: deze hebben een natuurlijke stroom die goed is voor je spreekvaardigheid. Met schaduwspraak bouw je zelfvertrouwen op in het spreken van complexere zinnen, handig voor IELTS spreekvaardigheid oefenen. Vergeet niet: het is niet om perfect te zijn, maar om te leren luisteren en reageren zoals een native speaker.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | we've seen · You've appeared · I've been |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was written · been tattooed · be seen |
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.