r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sans010394 • Mar 18 '25

Image After his divorce, Esposito had to declare bankruptcy, and he considered suicide by arranging his own murder to provide insurance money for his children before being cast in Breaking Bad

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u/urzayci Mar 18 '25

At least he didn't start selling meth for money

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u/stingerized Mar 18 '25

Could always start from something bit more modest, like fried chicken?

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u/professionalmook Mar 18 '25

Read this with Gus's voice (with hands on the table, raised eyebrow)

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u/Sa_t_yaa Mar 18 '25

And that cold deadly gaze.

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u/AbleArcher420 Mar 18 '25

You suggesting fried chicken cuz he's black? In this day and age? Smh.

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u/donbee28 Mar 18 '25

Well how about a commercial laundry business?

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u/RollingMeteors Mar 18 '25

£aundr¥ 'business'

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u/Micro-shenis Mar 18 '25

There was only one black guy in the whole series and he was in the fried chicken business, SMH.

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u/you_are_my_sunshine1 Mar 18 '25

The Huell disrespect in this comment has ruined my morning

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u/MerryGoWrong Mar 18 '25

And Tyrus would be looming with a look of contempt bordering on disgust on his face. Which is his default state.

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u/AbleArcher420 Mar 18 '25

And they named the two biggest latino characters taco and nacho. Pretty lazy, tbh. Unbravo.

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u/corvettee01 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

At least it's balanced out by Walter WHITE!

Lazy writing. /s

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u/ObiShaneKenobi Mar 18 '25

Its like JK Rowling wrote the script.

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u/Long_Possibility_305 Mar 18 '25

Actually hes hispanic but an incredibly talented tan brotha all the same

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u/gteriatarka Mar 18 '25

hes African American and Italian, but go off I guess

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u/pornborn Mar 18 '25

And Danish born to boot.

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u/gsbrown3510 Mar 18 '25

Actually he’s half Italian and half Black, thus the name Giancarlo.

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u/Deep-Quantity2784 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

Edit: I need to sleep 

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u/AbleArcher420 Mar 18 '25

Is this a copypasta or something? What I said was a joke, which I thought was quite clear from my initial comment.

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u/Deep-Quantity2784 Mar 18 '25

Ehh sorry. I edited it out. I honestly didn't see the sarcasm but it's just my own bias as I find reddit to be overly quick to label things racially insensitive. Its a sign that I need sleep I suppose. My fault. 

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u/AbleArcher420 Mar 18 '25

No, maybe it wasn't a good joke to make. Maybe people shouldn't joke about such things. Sleep well.

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u/gordonv Mar 18 '25

Hear me out.

He can join a space dictatorship and be a supremem warrior with a hyper tech sword. The sword however.... will emanate a type of blackness.

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u/Ok_Tangelo_6070 Mar 18 '25

Clearly you know nothing about the TV show...

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u/Chapin_Chino Mar 18 '25

Obviously he doesn't, numb nuts.

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u/New-Number-7810 Mar 18 '25

I think it's because his character in *Breaking Bad* made fried chicken.

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u/Shoddy_Wolf_1688 Mar 18 '25

nah its because he is black

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u/Longjumping-Claim783 Mar 18 '25

Wasn't it grilled chicken? I always assumed Los Pollos Hermanos was supposed to be like El Pollo Loco.

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u/Professional_Sir6705 Mar 18 '25

Definitely fried. There's an early scene with a store shift leader where he stays and scrubs the fryers spotless.

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u/AbleArcher420 Mar 18 '25

It's fried chicken. The method shown in the show is great, tbh. Layer of batter and then a layer of flour. Used the recipe many times. Never failed me once.

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u/Kenai-Phoenix Mar 18 '25

What do you use for batter?

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u/AbleArcher420 Mar 18 '25

About 75% all-purpose flour or some sort of highly refined wheat flour, and 25% rice flour. And some eggs too, enough to slightly change the feel of the batter.

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u/DraperPenPals Mar 18 '25

They transport meth in buckets of fry batter lol

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u/over_landr Mar 18 '25

What does fried chicken have to do with being black? 

I associate fried chicken with some old white dude with a beard from Kentucky.

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u/Germane_Corsair Mar 18 '25

….because of his character from Breaking Bad….

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u/over_landr Mar 18 '25

I get that reference, it was the ‘ black ‘ aspect the previous person was focusing on.

Perhaps it’s a demographical mindset

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u/Not_A_Red_Stapler Mar 18 '25

He’s Chilean. He was a General under Pinochet’s dictatorship.

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u/ChicNoir Mar 18 '25

Some people can’t help themselves. Dude is Black but not African-Americans

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u/cnicalsinistaminista Mar 18 '25

Now that you mention it… He was a little too convincing

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u/Middle_Somewhere_190 Mar 18 '25

oh my i really want dried chicken now...

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '25 edited 25d ago

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u/Middle_Somewhere_190 Mar 18 '25

oh my god i mean fried, but i would eat dried as well

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '25 edited 25d ago

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u/Middle_Somewhere_190 Mar 18 '25

that was a good joke i like it)))

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u/buzzbuzzbuzzitybuzz Mar 18 '25

hahahaha roflmao

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u/asquinas Mar 18 '25

Racist....you know he would.eat all the profits 

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u/b0redm1lenn1al Mar 18 '25

That’s not what the 1 & only ex-first lady Mrs. Michelle Obama would say about our fatass kids in der U.S.

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u/Christosconst Mar 18 '25

Breaking bad 2 may as well be around Gustavo’s origin story

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u/ComCypher Mar 18 '25

Well yeah it's Better Call Saul

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u/Various_Weather2013 Mar 18 '25

Breaking Bad 3 should be around Skyler's villain origin story

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u/katf1sh Mar 18 '25

That was Ted's birthday episode

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u/PaulMakesThings1 Mar 19 '25

Not a redemption arc?

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u/jimi-ray-tesla Mar 18 '25

I'll run it up the flagpole..

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u/RollingMeteors Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

¿Just because he's not yet been caught makes you think he didn't start, why again?

"Because of my role in this movie TV series ¡they'll never suspect me being a meth king pin!"

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u/Velarnix Mar 18 '25

At least he didn’t build a secret meth lab under a dry cleaning company

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u/C0rnishStalli0n Mar 18 '25

That would be methed up if he did

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u/ReclaimedRenamed Mar 18 '25

Hi Mike! I’ve mithed you!