There are many stories of actors who have gone through real ordeals before rising to fame, such as Pedro Pascal. In this chronicle, however, the protagonist is Giancarlo Espositoknown primarily for his role as Gus Fring in ‘Breaking Bad’ and its prequel ‘Better Call Saul’. This interpreter has recently told how he spent many economic difficulties before he was famous, and desperation almost led him to commit a terrible act: he was about to order his own murder so that his family could collect his life insurance.
Giancarlo Esposito: “’Breaking Bad’ was the light at the end of the tunnel for me”
In one of the latest programs on YouTube’s Jim and Sam Show podcast, Giancarlo Esposito has talked about his life and career. However, one of the most notable points was when he revealed a very shocking fact about his life, and that is that according to himself He almost hired a hitman to kill himall of this with the intention that his family would collect the money from his life insurance. The conversation around this very sensitive matter begins around minute 12:00 in this video:
One of the hosts asks Esposito “in 2008 you were broke. What made you think there was a way out?”. Esposito answers the following: “The first thing I thought about was my father-in-law, who worked in insurance. I started asking my wife how much I was insured for.and I started to think about it. I started asking him questions like if you could collect insurance if you committed suicide., and he told me it was complex. She had no idea why she was asking him all this”.
“Then I thought about hiring someone to kill meit would be a very unfortunate death and my family would collect the insurance. He had four children and wanted them to have a decent life.. I literally thought about my own death so that they could survive; “That’s how low I fell.”continues the actor. “But Then I thought it was not viable because the pain it would cause would be for life.and precisely this trauma is what I wanted to get away from and not pass on to my children.”he declared.
“The light at the end of the tunnel was ‘Breaking Bad’. “I already had a job before this series, but ‘Breaking Bad’ was what saved me”he commented.
In other words: Giancarlo Esposito went through terrible financial difficulties in 2008and he considered ordering his own death so that his family could collect the undisclosed amount for which his life was insured. Finally He decided not to do it because he rationalized that the pain he would cause his family would be greater than the good the insurance proceeds could do them..
Giancarlo Esposito has been in the world of film and television since 1979 with his first role in ‘Running’, a Canadian film. Nevertheless, Until 2009, he has only been concatenating small roles both in feature films and TV productions. It was Gus Fring’s role in ‘Breaking Bad’ that truly put him on the map. After this role, he reprized as Fring in ‘Better Call Saul’, a prequel to ‘Breaking Bad’ and has also participated in productions of different magnitude such as ‘The Boys’ or ‘The Mandalorian’.
The story of this actor is also the story of many others. Great icons of action cinema from the 80s and 90s such as Jean Claude Van Damme either Arnold Schwarzenegger have also revealed over time the hardships they had to go through in their search for fortune in Hollywood: from living practically destitute to having to do infamous jobs for a pittance.
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