Giancarlo Esposito: ‘I hope Disney will always support what their stars say, but they have to be careful’
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Here comes John Leguizamo and David Labiosa and all these Spanish guys so I stood aside because I thought they should have the opportunity to play who they are.” open image in gallery Esposito garnered a huge fanbase for his role as meth kingpin Gustavo ‘Gus’ Fring Then came the rise of “unconventional casting” – what we might now refer to as blind casting – and a whole new range of roles opened up for Esposito. In “joining Spike Lee’s camp”, Esposito learnt of opinions on race relations beyond his own. “It helped me to have something to hold onto outside of myself.” Still today, Esposito’s language often leans towards the spiritual. “I’m tickled that I have all these action figures from all these different shows that people are collecting and sending me to sign,” says Esposito, a self-confessed Star Wars fanboy.
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From Gus Fring to Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Giancarlo Esposito plays "the humanity of all people"
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