I’m watching The Mandalorian and thinking that I’ve never seen Giancarlo Esposito every play a real good guy. I looked him up in IMDB and he’s been in a whole lot more movies than I care to watch (I mean HOLY SHIT!, he’s been in a lot of things) but I cannot think of one thing I’ve seen him in where he didn’t turn out to be a bit of an asshole. What has he been in that you’ve seen where he played a straight up good guy?
What other actors and actresses can you think of that you’ve never seen play a good guy? The only actress I can think of who I’ve never seen play a good guy is Anne Ramsey because in Hollywood, ugly is as ugly does.
Actually, Giancarlo Esposito was the protagonist in the first role I ever saw him in. The short-lived but quite funny “Bakersfield P.D” that aired on Fox in the early '90s.
His characters in Sin City and The Wrestler aren’t scumbags at all. Those are the roles that I identify him with most closely, because I’m 33 and most of his earlier roles were before my time.
Yeah, they were scumbags for sure in both of those, especially in sin city. But they weren’t the BAD guys. Hell, EVERYone in Sin City was a scumbag of sorts.
In The Wrestler, yeah, he’s pretty much a detestable person with a constant stream of selfish and destructive choices behind him. I’m not saying I don’t feel for the guy but he’s not a mensch by any means.
He plays a dimensional cop on The Flash with suuuper rough edges, but he’s still a good guy, so long as you realize “bring 'em back alive” isn’t really on the to-do list when you’re chasing somebody who can teleport across dimensions. Plus, he only threatened to kill Cisco like four or five times, and… okay, maybe he’s not a good guy.
