Giancarlo Esposito Sells Memoir After Bidding War (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comWilliam Earl Giancarlo Esposito is ready to tell his life story. The actor, who memorably played Gus Fring on “Breaking Bad” and its spin-off “Better Call Saul,” has sold his memoir after a bidding war.
The Crown Publishing Group, in partnership with Sugar23 Books, will release the book. Per the official description, “The memoir will explore Giancarlo’s upbringing as the second child of a black American opera singer and an Italian theatrical set builder.
Born in Europe in the late 1950s and identifying as Italian, he experienced no racism that he understood until his parents moved to the States — where his complex relationship with them continued out of a one-bedroom apartment in Elmsford, New York.
In a bizarre and tragic turn of events, Giancarlo became his family’s sole breadwinner at the age of eight when he was cast in a Broadway musical.
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