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Giancarlo Esposito portrays Gus Fring in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Gustavo Fring is named after the former German international footballer Torsten Frings. [1]When Raymond Cruz was unable to continue as Tuco Salamanca in Breaking Bad 's second season due to his commitment to appear in The Closer, the Breaking Bad writers wrote Tuco out of the series and created the character of ...
"Hermanos" was the first episode to delve into Gus Fring's backstory, although much remains unexplained about the character's past in Chile, which Gus seems anxious to keep concealed. Series creator Vince Gilligan has said Gus was likely involved in the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet , but the writing staff had deliberately ...
Maximino Arciniega (played by James Martinez) is Gus Fring's business associate and romantic partner. [23] Gus paid for Max's education in biochemistry and chemical engineering, at the University of Santiago in Chile. The pair then moved to Mexico and opened a chain of Los Pollos Hermanos chicken restaurants together. In the drug business, Max ...
Esposito appeared as Gus Fring on 26 episodes of “Breaking Bad,” then reprised the role on the prequel series “Better Call Saul” for 34 episodes.
In the episode "Abiquiu" of the US TV series Breaking Bad, the character Gus Fring, a prominent Chilean methamphetamine distributor in the southwest of the United States, prepares a paila marina for Walter White while explaining the origin of this typical Chilean dish.
Gus visits a hospitalized, unconscious Hector Salamanca and recounts a childhood story about a coati that ate the fruit from a lúcuma tree Gus had carefully tended in Chile. He trapped the coati, which broke its leg while trying to escape. Rather than killing it, which would have been humane, Gus held it and let it suffer until it died.
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (Italian: [dʒaŋˈkarlo dʒuˈzɛppe alesˈsandro eˈspɔːzito]; born April 26, 1958) is an American actor.He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, from 2009 to 2011, as well as in its prequel series Better Call Saul, from 2017 to 2022.
Los Pollos Hermanos was founded by Chilean nationals and business partners Gus Fring (played by Giancarlo Esposito) and Max Arciniega (James Martinez) in Mexico. [1] An apocryphal story as told in a fictional television commercial suggests that it was inspired by recipes cooked by Gus' uncles.