Cranston expects 'Breaking Bad' death

Bryan Cranston has admitted that he thinks his Breaking Bad character will die at the end of the show.

Cranston plays Walter White, a high school teacher who starts producing and dealing crystal meth when he discovers that he has lung cancer.

Speaking to Parade, the actor explained that Walter continues to change in the third season.

"This season really explores Walter's transformation to adapt to his new lifestyle of crime and how you have to manipulate and manoeuvre in order to navigate the dangerous waters," he said. "It's all about Walter starting to come to grips with who he is, why he's doing this, and acceptance of that.

"He's taking control, allowing himself to be the intimidator. It's about the seductive power of money and how that changes a person."

Cranston described Walter's journey as "Mr. Chips to Scarface" and added: "I don't really know where he's going to go, but that's the excitement of it. Just as we don't know where we're going to go in our own lives.

"I'm pretty darn sure that he'll die at the end of the show. But how he dies, I really, honestly don't want to know and I don't want to. Would you want to know how you were going to die? It would freak you out."

The third season of Breaking Bad premieres Sunday on AMC.