Bryan Cranston mourns ‘Breaking Bad’ co-star RJ Mitte: ‘My sweet son’

Emmy-winning actor Bryan Cranston on Monday lamented the death of “Breaking Bad” co-star RJ Mitte, calling the late actor and disability advocate “my sweet son.” Cranston, 70, said he was in “deep despair” over Mitte’s death by suicide and wondered whether he’d still be alive today had they only met up for lunch in recent days. “It is especially devastating to hear that he took his own life. Why? We were texting each other just a few weeks ago — figuring out when we could meet for lunch,” Cranston said in a statement Monday night. “I don’t know if that lunch would have changed his future. … But I do know that I loved him, and thoroughly enjoyed being with him throughout the years on the series.” Mitte, 34, who played the son of Cranston’s lead character, Walter White, in the hit AMC series “Breaking Bad,” died Monday in Brownsville, Texas.

“I’m in deep despair as I write this tonight. RJ Mitte, my sweet son on Breaking Bad has died,” Cranston said. “I met him when he was only 14 years old when he was cast as Walter White Jr., a part he played with such joy and enthusiasm.” Mitte had cerebral palsy, and Cranston said that challenge never slowed him down. “He met the demanding shooting schedule head on