Bryan Cranston Shares Secret to His 34-Year Marriage: ‘Marry the Right Person’ (Exclusive)

Bryan Cranston reveals the secret to making his 34-year marriage to wife Robin Dearden work.

Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE at the London premiere of his latest film Argyll on Wednesday, the actor (67) talked about how he spent more than three decades with his wife (70) and wants to spend more time with her.

“Marry the right person,” Cranston tells PEOPLE of the secret to his relationship with actress Dearden, whom he married in 1989. “I think there are five things you should look for in a partner. Whatever those five things are to you, you need them. After that, let go. We will never be exactly the same in everything.”

Cranston continues, “Someone said, ‘You don’t go shopping with your wife?’ I say, ‘No! Why would I do that? I don’t like it!’ I just don’t like it, and she doesn’t like the things I like to do either.”

The couple, who have a 30-year-old daughter Taylor, first met on the set of the 1980s TV series Air wolf and they got married on July 8, 1989.

Robin Dearden and Bryan Cranston at the 73rd Tony Awards in New York.

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Meanwhile, Cranston also spoke to PEOPLE about his decision to take a year off from acting in 2026 and how spending more time with Dearden was part of the driving force behind it.

“At some point I want to slow it down,” he said Breaking Bad alum says. “I want to have more life experiences, I want to travel, I want to feel it. When you are working, I have been working for the last 25 years non-stop and it is not a real life. And I really feel like I want more real life experiences. I want to adjust the relationship that the industry has with me and also that is created for my marriage. I just want to balance it out somehow and experience something new.”

Asked if spending more time with his wife is part of that, Cranston says, “Yes! I like it. 35 years married, she is a wonderful lady.”

Bryan Cranston at the world premiere of the film ‘Argylle’ in London.

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Until then, Cranston is very focused on work, including promotion Argyllthe upcoming spy thriller in which he plays the villain Ritter.

Expressing how much he enjoyed the role, Cranston tells PEOPLE, “I enjoy being the villain. It’s so much fun. It’s really fun to be able to determine the fate of someone else’s world and life. It’s like, you know, I thought I liked you, but I don’t, you’re gone! And when I say gone, I mean gone.”

As for what drew him to the film, which also stars Henry Cavill, Dua Lipa, Samuel L. Jackson, Ariana DeBose, John Cena, Cranston says director Matthew Vaughn made him sign on the dotted line.

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“He’s crazy, in a wonderful way, bold and daring and he never plays it safe and I love that kind of filmmaking,” Cranston explains to PEOPLE. “I like to take risks. Now there are other stories where you want a small story, an intimate story about relationships, that’s not it! This is big, broad, have fun, laugh, be silly. It was so much fun to shoot and even more fun to watch.”

The film follows Elly Conway (played by Bryce Dallas Howard), the reclusive author of a string of best-selling spy novels, as she finds herself in the company of a real-life spy (played by Sam Rockwell) as the two race “across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Elly’s between the fictional world and her real one begins to disappear,” reads the synopsis.

Argyll hits theaters nationwide on February 2nd.

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