Giancarlo Esposito may be a go-to bad guy in Hollywood, but he wants everyone to know it’s just an act.

“I’m playing a human being, who has all kinds of emotions from A to Z,” Esposito told a panel on “Villains We Love to Hate” at the Tribeca Festival Lisboa on Thursday. He broke out as the villainous drug kingpin Gustavo Fring on AMC’s Breaking Bad and its spinoff Better Call Saul.

Then came playing a wealthy drug lord in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen , a war criminal in The Mandalorian and menacing Stan Edgar in The Boys . More recently he played the memorably corrupt Mayor Cicero in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis.

Giancarlo Esposito may be a go-to bad guy in Hollywood, but he wants everyone to know it’s just an act.

“I’m playing a human being, who has all kinds of

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