After working with Spike Lee and David E. Kelley on initiatives like “College Daze” and “Ladies Membership” — in addition to a task on “Murder: Life on the Road” — Giancarlo Esposito was nonetheless struggling to make a dwelling as an actor, however in 2009, he was solid as drug kingpin Gus Fring on “Breaking Unhealthy” and instantly skyrocketed to fame. (It actually helps that Gus’ extraordinarily violent loss of life on the collection supplied one in every of its most indelible photos.) He returned to play the function once more from 2017 to 2022 on the equally acclaimed “Breaking Unhealthy” prequel “Higher Name Saul,” showing alongside star Bob Odenkirk to clarify the historical past of each their characters. So would he play Gus but once more? Sure, positively.
“Yeah, I might love that,” Esposito advised British GQ in a video the place he answered submitted questions. “My backstory is he was a army man who labored his method up by way of the ranks and will have develop into president, even probably the dictator and have taken over. However he needed to do one thing that might not be managed by others, and he needed to manage his personal future. And so he took off to create a brand new life for himself in America and develop into a meth vendor, a businessman.”
Esposito really has a transparent and intensely cool imaginative and prescient for younger Gus: “I believe, in his youthful years, he was somebody who may have been extra Tony Montana. However he labored his method into turning into stage sufficient to pay attention, hear, and see by way of his emotional state. We might hope that it could be ‘The Rise of Gus.'”