He intended to collapse.
Giancarlo Esposito admitted that he once found himself in such a dire financial situation that he considered suicide so his family could get insurance money.
“That’s how low I was,” the 65-year-old actor, who eventually went on to star in “Breaking Bad” and many other shows, said during a recent episode of “The Jim and Sam Show.” from SiriusXM.
“My idea was, ‘Hey, do you have life insurance if someone commits suicide?’ Do they receive the bread?’ “, explained Giancarlo. “My wife didn’t know why I was asking this question. I started plotting.
He thought that if he could convince someone to kill him, “death by misadventure,” as he called it, his wife and four children would benefit from the insurance.
“I wanted them to have a life. It was a difficult time in life. I literally thought about self-annihilation so they could survive,” he said.
“It was the first idea for me that there was a way out, but I wouldn’t be there to be available for it, nor for my children,” he added.
Ultimately, he decided he could not carry out such a plan because it would leave his family traumatized.
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“I started to think that it wasn’t sustainable because of the pain I would cause them, and that it would be lifelong – and permanent trauma that would only prolong the generational trauma that I’m trying to get over. ‘go away,’” Esposito said.
Esposito, who shares daughters Shayne, Ruby, Kale and Syrlucia with ex-wife Joy McManigal, went on to receive three Emmy nominations for his role as Gus Fring in “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul.”
After the series ended in 2013, he played other notable roles in shows like “The Godfather of Harlem,” “The Boys” and “Parish.”
The “Mandalorian” actor called the Bryan Cranston-led series “the light at the end of the tunnel.”
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