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Jul 23, 2013

Heisenberg Mask Lets Bryan Cranston Cosplays As Walter White At Comic-Con 2013

Any Comic-Con attendees walking around the main floor in San Diego on Sunday may have had the opportunity to get a picture with a particularly dedicated cosplayer (person in costume) wearing a realistic mask of "Heisenberg," Walter White’s alter ego on “Breaking Bad.” What most people didn’t know, though, was that it wasn’t just a fan under that mask, but Bryan Cranston himself.

To put it another way, Bryan Cranston was walking around Comic-Con dressed as his own character, wearing a realistic mask of his own face.

Cranston revealed the ruse at Sunday’s "Breaking Bad" panel, where he stepped up to the Hall H stage wearing the mask before revealing his identity to the crowd’s applause. Cranston said he had been out getting pictures with fans, disguising his identity further by speaking “in a higher register,” EW reports.

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