Bryan Cranston on the beauty of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Bryan Cranston is sweating. Beside him, a rocket ship stands in the courtyard of a disused razor-blade factory in suburban southwest London. Surrounded by dirt and rocks, the ship is illuminated by spotlights that pierce the predawn air. It's the hottest day of the year so far and Cranston is crammed into a spacesuit, with a cooling vest to keep him comfortable. On the set of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, it seems that even the weather is out to get you.When Channel 4 lost Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror to Netflix, Electric Dreams was its secret weapon. The ten-episode anthology series, which Cranston executive-produced, is based on Dick's lesser-known short stories. Cranston also appears in the episode Human Is, originally published in 1955 as part of pulp sci-fi magazine Startling Stories. The plot is typical of Dick's work: the strains of human nature pushed to the limit by sci-fi dystopias. Cranston and co-star Essie Davis live in a future where Eart...