Far Cry 6: Giancarlo Esposito Has Opened Up About Playing The Game's Main Villain

Giancarlo Esposito, perhaps best known for his role as the villainous Gus Fring on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is playing the villain in Far Cry 6. The first trailer introduces his character, Anton Castillo, and gives us a look at how his relationship with his son will play into the game's plot.

In an interview with Variety, below, Esposito (sporting an excellent, scraggly beard) dives into the character of Anton Castillo, and what makes him tick. He talks about the character's past, and how he's trying to prove that he's a better leader than his father, a previous president of the game's fictional setting of Yara, was. "He may not be the dictator his father was," Esposito says.

He reveals that the character is a former child soldier, who was "born with a silver spoon in his mouth" but was unable to ascend as a ruler until his father was unseated by revolutionaries. He talks about his beliefs, and there's some clear parallels between Castillo and the former leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro. "When you get in bed with America, things change," Esposito says. "But does Anton want that for his own country? I don't think so."

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