Actor Giancarlo Esposito is opening up about the "self-annihilation" he contemplated before landing his award-winning role in "Breaking Bad."
The actor, 65, revealed he once planned his own murder before he achieved success with “Breaking Bad” on Sirius XM’s “Jim and Sam Show”
Hollywood star Giancarlo Esposito has revealed he was once so broke prior to being cast in the hit series Breaking Bad that he contemplated plotting his own death to get his family an insurance payout.
Hollywood veteran Giancarlo Esposito recently appeared in an episode of the Jim & Sam show on SiriusXM’s while promoting his new drama series Parish on AMC, and the conversation got dark. Variety reports that Esposito revealed he was so broke before booking his villainous role of Gus Fring on the iconic “Breaking Bad,” that he […] The post Giancarlo Esposito Once Considered Staging His Murder for Life Insurance first appeared on The Source.
Giancarlo Esposito knows — people think everyone who is on TV or in the movies is rich, and will always stay that way. But it's not always so, by a long shot. In fact, the "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" villain's imagination went pretty darn dark when his own times were tough. It was a while back, before those two Vince Gilligan series cemented him as a famous face, and there wasn't much money coming in, he said on a recent episode of the "Jim and Sam Show" podcast with comic Jim Norton...
Giancarlo Esposito was struggling financially before he landed the role of a lifetime on "Breaking Bad." Esposito, who portrayed Gus Fring on the hit AMC drama, reached such a low point in life in 2008 he considered arranging his own murder so his family could benefit from a life insurance policy. "My way out in my brain was, ‘Hey, do you get life insurance if someone commits suicide? Do they get the bread?’" he said during an appearance on SiriusXM's Jim & Sam show. "My wife said, ‘Well that’s...
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