Bryan Cranston is angling for a cameo in a non-existent Office movie

Bryan Cranston gets what he wants. If he wants to do two seasons of Your Honor, playing what Wikipedia describes as a New Orleans judge with nothing to lose, well, then he’s going to do it. What can we say? He loves to work, which is why he was willing to canonize PopCorners in the Breaking Bad universe. But Cranston’s demands are strange, and like seemingly everyone on planet Earth, he’s desperate for The Office to continue.

Before Netflix had become a $16.99/month knockoff TBS, the only thing people used the streamer for was watching reruns of The Office. However, after the show’s rights reverted to the Scheinhardt Wig Company, millions of Office streamers desperate to hear Michael Scott say, “That’s what she said,” were scattered to the wind. Some went to Peacock. Others simply waited for “Scott’s Tots” to play on television. Bryan Cranston, meanwhile, goes on Office Ladies to demand a role in a non-existent reboot movie.

Appearing on the ever-popular Office recap and discussion podcast, Cranston asked hosts Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey if they would be interested in a movie rather than the reboot series that is frequently the subject of rumors. “Let’s say that there’s not a reboot series, but what if there was a movie?” Cranston asked. “Something to where we can see where these people are. These people in the entire cast that we’re curious about. We wondered at the end, where did they go? What did become of them?”

Presumably forgetting that the show’s finale depicted where these characters ended up (well, at least a year later), Fischer and Kinsey answer in the affirmative, but only if “Greg [Daniels] is writing it and he’s in charge of it,” says Fischer. Kinsey would do it because her kids “would think that’s fun.”

However, Cranston comes from the Glengarry School of Showbiz—he always be closing—and used the podcast appearance to book another gig. “I just want to be an extra in it,” Cranston said. “I would be some guy. I’d be a crossing guard or something like that. Just something.”

Cranston acted in and directed the 2012 episode “Work Bus,” which The A.V. Club declared the best episode since season seven. Cranston could be the man for the job if an Office movie were to happen. More likely, Greg Daniels gets his spin-off off the ground. If two-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston plays his cards right, he could probably land the role of crossing guard if he auditioned.

[via The Hollywood Reporter]