Bryan Cranston, star of Breaking Bad, has disclosed that he lost his virginity to a sex worker in Austria when he was 16 years old.
The 66-year-old has revealed the complete story of how he lost his virginity while travelling throughout Europe with two older companions in the 1970s.
While his companions were keen on the idea, Bryan recalled how he ‘got cold feet’ in the Austrian brothel, before a woman of an unknown age came up to him and took his hand.
What ensued was, as Bryan put it, a ‘traumatic and a great, exhilarating, memorable experience’.
‘It was the thing to do,’ he said in an interview on the latest episode of the podcast Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend.
‘I was actually looking forward to it’ the actor scoffed. ‘And nervous as hell, of course – I was 16.
‘And a bunch of friends, we were out together and it’s like, “We’re gonna do this, let’s go, let’s go” and I’m like, “Yeah, yeah, sure let’s go!” but I’m like “Oh god…”.’
Bryan told how they arrived in Salzburg’s red light district, and how, while his two other companions, who were approximately a year and a half his senior, entered a brothel, he stood back and stated, ‘I don’t think I brought enough money.’
The actor laughed at this, and joked: ‘I don’t think I have enough Austrian Franks to be able to make this transaction.’
His two pals struck a ‘deal’ and ‘went upstairs,’ while he ‘tried to imply’ with gestures that he didn’t have enough money.
The Malcolm In The Middle star continued: ‘I sat down in the foyer, and then this woman came up to me, and – everyone’s older than you when you’re 16, I could not tell you how old she was – she came up and she indicated to my pockets.’
Bryan then suggested that he didn’t have enough money and pulled out a few pennies to demonstrate this before she ‘seized the money and she grabbed [his] hands’.
Shocked, the actor recalled thinking, ‘Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, this is happening, this is happening, oh my god oh my god oh my god’, before arriving in a room with a single bed, a sink and a trash can.
The anonymous woman mockingly pointed at Bryan’s clothes, prompting podcast host Conan to remark that his penis would ‘be up within my body at this time, it would have retracted into my left lung’.
‘So then, yeah, I had to stand up while taking my clothes off and putting it on a hook,’ remembered Bryan.
‘I was so nervous that I didn’t even feel anything. My brain was on fire.’
At one point, the actor thought ‘I should touch her breast’, and when he did the woman slapped his hand away.
‘It was like, “Which one should I touch? I don’t know,” and so I just touched one of her breasts and all of a sudden I just felt her hand slap mine,’ he said.
Bryan then quipped that he was’smoking my imaginary cigarette’ with his friends later.
In what was generally a light-hearted retelling of the event, Bryan concluded that losing your virginity is a ‘seminal moment in a person’s life’.
‘I’ve been going back to Austria ever since,’ he quipped.
Conan, bewildered by the star’s candour and generosity in sharing so frankly about this incident, joked that he didn’t even ask for the anecdote, but Bryan simply told it anyhow. Good job!
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