Actor Giancarlo Esposito, who you may know from his iconic performance as the calm and calculating monster Gud Fring from Breaking Bad, has revealed that he is going to be appearing in an upcoming video game, although he’s remaining tight-lipped on exactly what the game is for now. That’s not going to stop us from speculating which game it could be.
He’s a great actor that has had a bunch of interesting roles over the years, including a comedic turn in Spike Lee joint Do The Right Thing, a cop operating in a morally grey area in The Box (2007), and of course his fantastic performance as the drug kingpin hiding in plain sight, operating a drug empire under the cover of a chain of chicken restaurants.
This won’t be his first time appearing in a game, as he also voiced a character for Payday 2, but from the sounds of things, this is a much bigger project. He spoke about this new role when talking to Collider, saying the following:
“…this video game I did, which is going to be huge, I can’t really mention. This new style of acting, which in a way, this pandemic has also created a new style of acting for you, through Zoom. Through our own mechanics of being able to figure out how we communicate.”
It’s obviously a pretty open-ended statement. Industry insider and games analyst Daniel Ahmad has said that he expects we’ll hear about this game later this month.
Any guesses? I somewhat think he’d be perfect to play a Far Cry villain, especially since the series has focussed so heavily on having compelling villain performances in recent entries. It would also be a nice nod to his show mate Michael Mando, who played the fantastic villain Vaas in Far Cry 3 before going on to star in Better Call Saul. Ubisoft has got a “Ubisoft Forward” digital event scheduled for July 12th, so maybe something then?
We’re expecting Microsoft to host their big Xbox Series X event later this month, so perhaps he could be in a game being showcases then, either for a Microsoft first-party title, or a third party game appearing at that event.
We also know that Square-Enix has plans to announce some games over the next month. Maybe it could be a game from them, they’re pretty hard to predict.
Any theories? Any games you’d like to see Esposito in? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.