Bryan Cranston fights criminals in The Infiltrator

The Infiltrator is a true-crime story, based on the 2009 book, starring Cranston (right) and Bratt. Photo: Broad Green Pictures

In The Infiltrator, Bryan Cranston breaks out of Breaking Bad mould and works on the right side of the law. He stars as Bob Mazur, a real-life undercover federal agent tasked in the mid-1980s with helping to bring down infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar and his Medellín Cartel.

Posing as money-laundering businessman “Bob Musella”, Mazur ends up bonding with Escobar’s colleague, Roberto Alcaino (Benjamin Bratt). The two actors were in Miami, Florida in the US to talk about the movie (also starring John Leguizamo and Diane Kruger), based on Mazur’s 2009 autobiography of the same name.