Giancarlo Esposito: Last News

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The third season of “The Mandalorian” officially arrives on Disney+ this Wednesday, March 1. The third season will take place following the events of “The Book of Boba Fett,” in which “Mandalorian” lead Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) was last seen reuniting with Grogu in the miniseries. The two then left Tatooine, with Mando heading to the planet Mandalore to restore his honor and become a Mandalorian again. In a trailer released in January, Pascal’s Din Djarin and budding Jedi warrior Grogu are seen journeying across a galaxy far, far away, facing threats from Mandalore and the bustling urban planet Coruscant. Another teaser released in September showed Mando facing off against several armored warriors in their homeworld.

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EXCLUSIVE: Industry veteran Josh Kesselman is joining Sugar23 as a producer and manager in the company’s expanding management division.

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola has added Giancarlo Esposito to the all-star cast of Megalopolis. Esposito played Gus Fring in Breaking Bad and got an Emmy nom for reprising in Better Call Saul.

EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Emmy winner Bradley Whitford has signed with Gersh for representation.

The journey continues. The Mandalorian is preparing to expand the world previously introduced in the first two seasons of the Disney+ series.

Bob Odenkirk accepted the award for Best Actor in a Drama Series at the Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday after suffering a heart attack in July 2021.The 60-year-old actor was honored for his work in the final season of the AMC spin-off series Better Call Saul during the awards ceremony held at the Fairmont Century Plaza hotel.Better Call Saul also won the award for Best Drama Series and Bob's co-star Giancarlo Esposito, 64, took home the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Top actor: Bob Odenkirk accepted the award for Best Actor in a Drama Series at the Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday after suffering a massive heart attack in July 2021Bob during his acceptance speech thanked Better Call Saul creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould for offering him the 'amazing role' of Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman.'I was surrounded by the greatest writers and the greatest cast ever!,' Bob hollered.

Disney+ released the trailer for Tha Mandalorian Season 3 during halftime of the NFL Super Wild Card matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Star Wars spinoff from Lucasfilm will start streaming on March 1. Watch the trailer in the video posted above.

The first poster for the third season of The Mandalorian was shared on Monday morning.Bounty hunter Din Djarin is seen holding his cute little friend Baby Yoda, whose proper name is Grogu. The last time audiences saw the green wonder in the Mandalorian series he was with Luke Skywalker played by Mark Hamill (with the power of CGI).The trailer for the new season - which will premiere on March 1, 2023 - drops on Monday evening during the NFL game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Bob Odenkirk accepted the award for Best Actor in a Drama Series at the Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday after suffering a heart attack in July 2021.The 60-year-old actor was honored for his work in the final season of the AMC spin-off series Better Call Saul during the awards ceremony held at the Fairmont Century Plaza hotel.Better Call Saul also won the award for Best Drama Series and Bob's co-star Giancarlo Esposito, 64, took home the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Top actor: Bob Odenkirk accepted the award for Best Actor in a Drama Series at the Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday after suffering a massive heart attack in July 2021Bob during his acceptance speech thanked Better Call Saul creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould for offering him the 'amazing role' of Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman.'I was surrounded by the greatest writers and the greatest cast ever!,' Bob hollered.

ABC’s Abbott Elementary leads all contenders for the 2023 Critics Choice Awards TV nominations with six, followed by AMC’s Better Call Saul with five. Starz’s Gaslit, FX’s Reservation Dogs and Paramount+’s The Good Fight tied with four nominations each.

The Mandalorian and Grogu will ride together again early next year as Disney+ has sent a premiere date for the third season of the critically-acclaimed Star Wars spin-off.The hotly-anticipated new season will premiere on March 1 2023, three years after the second season. Deadline reported that the third season of the show will see Pedro Pascal's Mando traveling to his home planet Mandalore. Carl Weathers, Giancarlo Esposito and Katee Sackhoff are all returning to the series which added Christopher Lloyd for its highly-anticipated third season.  March 2023: The Mandalorian and Grogu will ride together again early next year as Disney+ has sent a premiere date for the third season of the critically-acclaimed Star Wars spin-offThe second season of the program came out in 2020 though Mando and Grogu made a long appearance in The Book of Boba Fett series that came out earlier this year.  Nick Nolte, Ming-Na Wen, Taika Waititi and Bill Burr have appeared in the series in the past alongside a number of other big names.  Over its first two seasons, the show has been lauded by fans and critics alike.

We’re getting the first behind-the-scenes look at Kaleidoscope (fka Jigsaw), Netflix’s upcoming heist drama anthology series from Eric Garcia and Ridley Scott, starring Giancarlo Esposito, Rufus Sewell, Paz Vega among others. The clip features cast and creatives from the series, which is set to premiere January 1, 2023 on Netflix.

Guy Ritchie is set to reunite with longtime collaborator Vinnie Jones (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) in Netflix’s The Gentlemen, a TV series inspired by Ritchie’s 2019 Miramax film. Jones joins the cast alongside Kaya Scodalerio (Crawl), Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul), Daniel Ings (I Hate Suzie), Joely Richardson (Lady Chatterley’s Lover) and Peter Serafinowicz (The Tick).

EXCLUSIVE: Sunu Gonera has been let go from AMC Networks’ series Parish, on which he was co-creator, executive produced and director.

EXCLUSIVE: Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid’s Tale) is set for a key recurring role opposite Giancarlo Esposito and Skeet Ulrich in The Driver, AMC’s remake of the British drama series that is set to launch next year on AMC and AMC+.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor “You should see the backstage,” actor Diego Luna told the D23 Expo crowd Saturday morning as he talked up his new “Star Wars”-branded Disney+ series “Andor” to the 5,000 faithful fans who packed the Anaheim Convention Center. The assembly of boldface names that were brought out at the three-day Disney fan event for a wave and brief chat about upcoming projects was a visual representation of the breadth of content produced by the studio these days. The list of boldface names included Harrison Ford, Angela Bassett, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston, Don Cheadle, Owen Wilson, Zoe Saldana, Giancarlo Esposito, Christian Slater, Pedro Pascal, Gael Garcia Bernal, Anthony Ramos and more.The star power on display was impressive and so was the brand power that Disney flexed during D23 Expo by releasing dozens of trailers, teasers and first looks at content bound for Disney+ and theaters in the coming year. The rapid-fire delivery of “Coming Soon” messages was music to the ears of Disney CEO Bob Chapek, who has been telling investors and others that Disney+’s has yet to fully hit its stride in content delivery because of pandemic disruptions.

Better Call Saul, the hit spin-off series to its widely popular predecessor Breaking Bad, wrapped up its six-season run on August 15.Witnessing the nuances they brought to their iconic characters over the years, AMC has announced that Bob Odenkirk and Giancarlo Esposito won't be leaving the network's fold just yet.Odenkirk, who played ethically challenged lawyer Saul Goodman to perfection in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is set to star in the network's new series Straight Man, while Esposito, the man behind the drug dealing Gustavo Fring character on both AMC shows, will be playing the lead role in The Driver. Staying with AMC: Giancarlo Esposito (left) and Bob Odenkirk (right) have both landed the leads for new series with AMC, which will be their third with the network following their roles in Breaking Bad and Better Call SaulBased on the Richard Russo novel of the same name, Straight Man tells the story of William Henry Devereaux Jr.

Bob Odenkirk bid his critically acclaimed series Better Call Saul farewell while thanking its many fans in a video he shared on Monday night.The 59-year-old actor appeared with a salt-and-pepper beard and unkempt hair in the relaxed and heartfelt clip, which he posted to his social media accounts.'Everybody's been asking me how I feel about saying goodbye to Saul Goodman and Better Call Saul, and I'm not good at answering the question, because it's frankly hard for me to look at that experience, and even at that character, too closely,' he admitted. Thanks for the memories: Bob Odenkirk, 59, posted a heartfelt video thanking fans for sticking with Better Call Saul through its season finale on Monday night'It's too many moving parts, and they fit together too beautifully, and it's a mystery to me how it even happened.'Thanks for giving us a chance,' he continued.

Netflix.Fans of the hit “Breaking Bad” spinoff were hit with the final episode, titled “Saul Gone,” on Monday.Odenkirk, 59, helmed the spinoff as Saul Goodman for a total of six seasons, which followed his initial four seasons on “Breaking Bad.” And to mark the end of an era for Goodman, initially known to fans as James Morgan “Jimmy” McGill, and later by the alias Gene Takavic, actor Odenkirk shared a two-minute clip on social media.“Everybody’s been asking me how I feel about saying goodbye to Saul Goodman and ‘Better Call Saul,’ and I’m not good at answering the question because it’s frankly hard for me to look at that experience, and even at that character, too closely,” the unabashedly emotional actor told fans in the video.Finale thank you from Bob Odenkirk pic.twitter.com/IFODl4bcLDOdenkirk thanked the show’s co-creators for letting him front the spinoff and for “giving me the chance.”“I did nothing to deserve this part but I hope I earned it after six seasons,” he said.He said the cast, consisting of Rhea Seehorn, Michael McKean, Jonathan Banks, Tony Dalton, Michael Mando, Patrick Fabian and Giancarlo Esposito, “made me a better actor than I am, just working with them.”“Watching them work has been an unbelievable experience,” added Odenkirk, who famously survived an on-set heart attack in July 2021 that nearly killed him.“Thanks for giving us a chance, because we came out of maybe a lot of people’s favorite show ever — and we could have been hated for simply trying to do a show,” Odenkirk went on.“But we weren’t; we were given a chance, and hopefully, we made the most of it.

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has added three agents to its Endorsements & Voiceover department: Garrett Smith, Maximillian Ulanoff and James Murray. Reporting to EVP partners and co-heads Brittany Balbo and Sam Stone, Smith and Murray will join the division in the Los Angeles office, while Ulanoff will be based in New York.