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
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.
If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.
I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing. I am finding new ways to allow myself to soar beyond the parameters of what the writers have written. My key is to commit, and love your character.
I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.
I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.
Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.
When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.
When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.
To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
When you're with another actor and doing something very intense, often you pull them over to your side, or they pull you over to theirs. But if you stay in your own truth, you can play that perfect tennis match. I always want to bring my power, but not in a way that eliminates the whole game!
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.
People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.
Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and mediation practice.
When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.