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Giancarlo Esposito Finds Elegance in Every Bad Guy
The Gentleman and Parish are giving one of Hollywood’s greatest journeymen his long-deferred shot at antihero stardom.
He gets to drive (literally, in the case of Parish) the action and bury that coiled sense of menace that served him well on Breaking Bad down deep, playing it small until it’s time to go big. Born in Denmark to an Italian stagehand father and a Black American mother who was a nightclub performer and opera singer, Esposito grew up in New York City with an intense anxiety about his family’s lack of material comfort. Gracián Parish can cover up a lot for a certain period of time, because, you know, we’re all too busy with our phones and other objects to really look at each other and go, Oh, yeah, he’s in a good space today.Or, Oh, no, wait a minute.
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