After years of working in Hollywood, actor Bryan Cranston announced that he plans to retire from acting in 2026. He shared his three-year exit plan with British GQ for their June cover story. The 67-year-old said he plans to shut down his production company, sell his half of mezcal company Dos Hombres and move to a new country with his spouse.

France has been considered a possible place to call home for at least six months. Cranston has dreams of a small village where they can cook, learn a new language, grow a garden together, and read. The “Breaking Bad” star admitted he wanted to devote more time to his wife of 34 years, Robin Dearden. The couple said “I do” in 1989.

Cranston told British GQ, “I want to change the paradigm once again. For the last 24 years, Robin has led her life holding onto my tail. She’s been the plus one; she’s been the wife of a celebrity. She’s had to pivot and adjust her life based on mine. She has tremendous benefits from it, but we’re uneven. I want to level that out. She deserves it.”

He detailed how the idea of slowing down together excited him, sharing, “I want to have that experience. I want to go for day trips, have the fire in the fireplace, drink wine with new friends, and not read scripts. It’s not going to be like, ‘Oh, I’ll read and see what I’m going to do.’ No, it’s a pause. It’s a stop. I won’t be thinking about work; I’m not going to be taking phone calls.” Cranston also shared that he and his wife had been in therapy since before they married.

He said, “I don’t want the obstacle in my real life. You want to be obstacle-free in real life. But it takes work to notice when an obstacle is forming. He continued, “I look at it like the warning light going off on your dashboard. It’s telling you, ‘You might want to pay attention to this.’ I love my wife, and we want to go the distance, but I want to do it in a healthy way. I don’t want to just be with her. I don’t want to just have the two of us go into a restaurant, and no one says a word.”

Cranston looked back on his life. According to the outlet, his father was an aspiring but “failed” star. The patriarch left Cranston’s mother for another woman when Cranston was just 11 years old. The family’s Los Angeles home was foreclosed, and Cranston’s mother suffered from alcoholism. The matriarch married twice before she later passed away from Alzheimer’s. The outlet described how Cranston was sent away to live with his grandparents after his parents’ breakup. After he moved back in with his mother, he took odd jobs like working as a house painter.

Later in the 1980s, Cranston immersed himself in acting, taking ad work and participating in weekly classes with Los Angeles improv coach Harvey Lembeck, who originally had Robin Williams as a student. After 10 years of estrangement, Cranston reconciled with his father, but as Cranston starred in “Malcolm in the Middle,” his father began asking for loans that would never be repaid, the outlet shared. Cranston’s father died in 2014.

As Cranston looks to the future, one thing is sure for him. He told the outlet, “It’s about taking a chance. I’m used to that feeling of not knowing.”