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    From "Breaking Bad" To "The Boys" – Giancarlo Esposito Breaks Down Some Of His Most Iconic Roles

    "I'm honoured to have played a character like this who is regarded as one of the best ever."

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    Benjamin Dzialdowski
    by Benjamin Dzialdowski

    BuzzFeed Staff

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    Ada Enechi
    by Ada Enechi

    BuzzFeed Staff

    It's fair to say that Giancarlo Esposito has had quite the impressive career, spanning multiple genres, and cementing himself in TV and film history. We had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with him and show him some clips from some of his most iconic roles.

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    Here are some takeaways from the video, where he breaks down some of his roles:

    On Do the Right Thing and his relationship with Spike Lee:

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    "The film hasn't lost any power in its message. And that's a tribute to Spike's writing, and to all the performances in the film as well. I feel like my relationship with him has been very particular, a very dear, dear friendship. And I'm always trying to be in service to what he wants to get from a movie.

    We had no clue that this film would be as big as it is until we were halfway through it. And we felt an energy, we felt this energy shift and change, and we were doing something that was really important and they need to be seen. It was a message needed to be heard and seen by our community especially. 

    When I started with Spike, we we talked a lot about the ability to see images of ourselves as African Americans, as Black people in America and around the world that really reflected who we really were, and really are."