Where's the worst place to get stung by a bee? Bryan Cranston has thoughts

There’s thing Bryan Cranston won’t bash successful the sanction of art.

This week, Cranston stopped by “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” to chat astir the Hulu revival “Malcolm successful the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair,” which dropped Friday — astir 20 years aft the archetypal bid bid audiences adieu.

Colbert took Cranston connected a travel down representation lane, revisiting each the chaotic stunts the histrion would get roped into during the beloved comedy’s archetypal run.

Cranston, who played Malcolm’s dada Hal connected the series, was strapped to the beforehand of a moving bus, painted bluish caput to toe, drank a concoction of earthy eggs and crushed nutrient connected camera and learned a disco rollerskating regular that helium performed to Queen’s “We Are the Champions” wearing a spandex jumpsuit.

When Colbert presented a photograph of the Emmy-winning histrion covered successful bees during a Season 1 occurrence of the wacky household sitcom, Cranston recalled a alternatively unfortunate wounded helium suffered portion filming the Fox hit.

“I had 60,000 bees connected maine and I was stung twice,” helium said. “And a mates things that you recognize erstwhile you’re wearing 60,000 bees, you should not beryllium amazed if you get stung.”

“So erstwhile I got stung, I went, ‘Oh, I deliberation I got stung!’” Cranston said. “And the bee wrangler — he’s acceptable to scrape it off, close — helium goes, ‘Where is it?’ And I go, ‘On my scrotum.’”

“And helium goes, ‘You’re connected your own.”

According to Cranston, the stunt squad was capable to screen the histrion successful bees by utilizing pheromones from the queen bee.

“They instrumentality it retired connected a small oculus dropper, and they enactment it each over,” helium continued, adding that the squad utilized insect repellent connected his look to support the bees wide from that area.

Colbert pulled retired different bid inactive of the histrion who appeared bare and obscured by an unfastened paper portion his wife, Lois, played by Jane Kaczmarek, shaved his back.

“And present you are being shaved completely,” Colbert joked.

“As 1 does,” Cranston said.

The four-episode revival, “Malcolm successful the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair,” premiered Friday connected Hulu, and according to bid creator Linwood Boomer, the full happening was Cranston’s idea. The reunion brings backmost spectator favorites Cranston arsenic Hal, Frankie Muniz arsenic Malcolm, Kaczmarek arsenic Lois, and a mates of Malcolm’s TV siblings.