Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Espositois an Italian-American and African-American actor and director. He is best known for his portrayal of Gustavo "Gus" Fring on the AMC series Breaking Bad, for which he won the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama award at the 2012 Critics' Choice Television Awards and was nominated for an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series award at the 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 April 1958
CityCopenhagen, Denmark
CountryUnited States of America
I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.
I feel that our stories are cross culturally irrelevant, and I'm a member if a larger community of people who have no boundaries in terms of color or in terms of how I look at other people and their stories.
I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.
For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.
It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive.
I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.
I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.
Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?
Cable was a blessing for me. Thank god, I've done a show that's going to be iconic. So, if I screw up, it's all right because I already have something that's going to be iconic.
I can only control what I do. I can try to suggest and be open, but trust is the key.
There is a dream that the world could be at peace, but that requires that all the folks with arms disarm, or take over all the arms and allow us to trust them.
What I love about 'Breaking Bad' is the reflection of many people's - it's more real in terms of people have faults, people have character traits that they don't like about themselves. It resembles more of what the human journey really is and it's less fantastic and hero-driven than other characters and shows that we watch.
The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.