"Breaking Bad" award-winning actor Bryan Cranston is starring as Bob Mazur in "The Infiltrator" (Photo : Twitter/The Infiltrator)
In an exclusive clip of "The Infiltrator," real-life undercover Bob Mazur (Bryan Cranston) and his partner Emir Abreu (John Leguziamo) were seen brainstorming for new aliases in a local cemetery. They pretended to be visitors whenever a gravedigger would approach since they did not have the permit to film in the cemetery.
The cemetery scene, first published by The Entertainment Weekly, was filmed in Florida. There were only five of them including two production interns who shot the scene. The whole process of how it was filmed was hilarious as the director and actors pretended to innocently observe the tombstones every time a gravedigger was approaching. This scene feels non-serious, but "Lincoln Lawyer" director Brad Furman says that this scene was portrayed as genuinely as possible.
Interestingly, director Furman tells the source that "The Infiltrator" was mostly shot in modern-day London, despite taking place in Miami during the 80's. The rest of the few scenes were taken and produced in Tampa. He further stated that it was "an absolutely insane challenge" for him to be able to achieve the 80's drug-riddled era by filming in London.
"The Infiltrator" is a true-to-life story about two drug enforcement agents going undercover as money launderers in an attempt to bring down arguably the most renowned lord of cocaine, Pablo Escobar, taking place in Florida in 1986. The film has been opened to theaters on Wednesday in the United States.
This unusual filming tactic chosen by the director has been reflected in the main actors because they loved shooting that way after starring together in "The Lincoln Lawyer". With only a few people on set every time they would shoot, and authenticity of being laid-back as friends while performing were caught in footage, and it gave the off the feeling of being too magical because it felt very real.
On another note, a viral video of Cranston making a Donald Trump impression has circulated the internet. "I'd like to play Donald Trump at some point," GQ Magazine quoted the "Breaking Bad" actor as saying. He said that Trump's nature was Shakespearean.
