Giancarlo Esposito was struggling financially before he landed the role of a lifetime on “Breaking Bad.”
Esposito, who portrayed Gus Fring on the hit AMC drama, reached such a low point in life in 2008 he considered arranging his own murder so his family could benefit from a life insurance policy.
“My way out in my brain was, ‘Hey, do you get life insurance if someone commits suicide? Do they get the bread?’” he said during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Jim & Sam show. “My wife said, ‘Well that’s kind of tricky’ … She had no idea why I was asking her this stuff.
I just started scheming. If I got somebody to knock me off, death through misadventure, they would get the insurance.
“I had four kids. I wanted them to have a life. Like, it was a hard moment in time. I literally thought of self-annihilation so that they could survive. That’s how low I was.”
