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Giancarlo Esposito on Breaking Bad’s Insane Season Finale and Whose Idea It Was to Straighten Gus’s Tie
It’s been almost a week since Breaking Bad’s insane season finale, and we still can’t stop talking about it. We've even turned it into a craft project of sorts. So when we saw Giancarlo Esposito, whose character Gustavo Fring has quite the explosive scene in the episode, at the opening of The Mountaintop on Broadway last night, we had a few things to go over with him. Eagerly. [Spoilers ahead.]
For starters, how did he find out his character was going to get killed off? “Vince came and spoke to me and said, ‘You know, I want to kill Gus off.’ It was a very funny moment, actually. We were having a conversation in his office and he got up to close the door and I said, ‘Don’t close the door,’ and he said, ‘No, I want to close the door.’ And I said, ‘No, you’re not closing the door.’ ‘No, I want to close the door.’ ‘No, DON’T close the door!’ And finally I allowed him to close the door because I knew what he was going to say. And then I said, ‘If it’s going to happen, it’s got to happen in a very fantastic way.’”
So not quite as simple as putting on Vulture's Gus Fring Halloween mask, which we then took the opportunity to tell him about. "Are you serious? You gotta get me one!" he said, handing us his card. "My e-mail’s there, my phone’s there as well. So reach out." We already have. Because when Gus Fring gives you an order, you listen. Unless you're Walter White.
As for how his gruesome two-face came together, he told Vulture that it was the result of “five hours in a chair in California. Casting my head … they actually made half of my face and glued it on with the craters and the makeup. Five hours in the chair to do that, after which they did some digital enhancing and then we had it.”
So not quite as simple as putting on Vulture's Gus Fring Halloween mask, which we then took the opportunity to tell him about. "Are you serious? You gotta get me one!" he said, handing us his card. "My e-mail’s there, my phone’s there as well. So reach out." We already have. Because when Gus Fring gives you an order, you listen. Unless you're Walter White.
