Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThe one Emmy acting nomination this morning for Disney+’s The Mandalorian belonged to Giancarlo Esposito, who plays the series enigmatic baddie Moff Gideon who squares off with the title bounty hunter.
Esposito’s nomination, out of the series’ 15 count, was in the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama category.What’s a Moff you ask?
For the Star Wars faithful, it’s a select group of sector governors on the Imperial side, who are the villains in the franchise, and Esposito plays Gideon with such silent fierceness one wonders who is the more dangerous: Gideon or Esposito’s drug kingpin Gus Fring on Better Call Saul, for which the actor also earned a nomination today in the Supporting Actor.
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