Giancarlo Esposito, who portrays Gus Fring on AMC’s Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, indicated in a recent interview with Insider that series creator Vince Gilligan may be ready to explore his character’s origin story in a prospective spin-off.
“The last days [on set of Better Call Saul], I’m tearing up and looking over my shoulder and I hear Vince say, ‘You never know,’” Esposito said of the possibility of Fring headlining his own spin-off series. “And so, I’ve always wanted, and felt like, there’s room for material for the rise of Gus. I feel like it’d be interesting to know where he came from.”
While Breaking Bad did go into some into about Fring’s origin story, Esposito obviously believes there’s room for a deeper dig into what makes the drug lord tick. “I feel like he came from a really wealthy family, had the opportunity to run, not only the family, but government in another country,” he added. “He had that kind of brain, that charisma, that stature, and he traded it in because he wanted to be his own man. There’s something fascinating to me about that.”
On April 18, AMC will air the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul, which will feature cameos from Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.