The most popular series "Breaking Bad" fell in love with millions of viewers and was appreciated by critics. For five full seasons the plot was kept in suspense and intrigued. The project was awarded 6 Emmy nominations. One of the main villains of the series is Gustavo Fring - the largest drug dealer. His meeting with the main character radically changed the fate of both.
Short story
The television movie "Breaking Bad" (season 1) tells the story of the fate of an ordinary chemistry teacher - Walter White. One day he learns that he is terminally ill. Then the man decides to manufacture synthetic drugs - methamphetamine. His goal is to provide the family with the means that would have sufficed even after his death.
Gustavo Fring appears in the series in season 2. He is introduced to White regarding the purchase of a drug. Gus becomes one of the central characters in season 3.
Then Walter learns that the disease has receded, and he will live. Now the whole drug venture becomes a constant occupation of the hero. Because of this, he loses his wife.
Gus, through threats, forces Walt and his partner to work for themselves. White doesn't like this, and he decides to hide with his family. However, his plans were not destined to come true. Then the hero decides to eliminate the dangerous enemy and kills Fring at the end of the season.
All that is known about Fring
Fring emigrated from Chile to Mexico during the Pinochet regime. Rumor had it that he was close to the dictator, but it is not known exactly who Gustavo Fring was in Chile.
Together with their friend Maximino, they opened a network of restaurants "Brothers Chickens." Under the cover of one of them, amphetamine-producing chemists work.
The only storyline where you can see any of Gus’s emotions is his close relationship with Max. After the Mexican cartel kills him, Fring focuses all his attention on revenge on Hector Salamanca.
Gustavo is smart, prudent and cold-blooded. He manipulates people so subtly for his own benefit that it is impossible to think that this is done only out of selfish motives. Fring is a strategist who decides the intentions of his enemies in advance. His knowledge of human psychology more than once helped to get dry out of the water.
Even at the time of his death, Fring does not lose his temper. Behind ice calm lies a hurricane of passions and the only desire is revenge. That is why Gus is the most dangerous and terrible villain in the series.
Who plays the role of a villain
Superbly performed the role of Gustavo Fring actor Giancarlo Esposito. He is familiar to viewers on TV shows such as Miami Police, Bones, Fool Me, and many others. Esposito tried his hand at directing, produced some projects.
The role of the antihero pleased the actor. He hopes that the audience will remember Gus for a long time, "and he will appear to them in a dream." Giancarlo took a lot of skill to recreate the image of Hus as he intended the director. The dual nature, tranquility and intelligence is inherent in the actor himself in ordinary life. That is why he managed to accurately display the smallest details of Fring's character. For this it was necessary to feel through what cruelty and pain of loss Gustavo went through.
The death of the hero in the series was inevitable. And the director and the actor decided to do it at the end of the season. By that time, something was already known about Gustavo, and his struggle with the cartel sooner or later ended tragically.
The character Gustavo Fring performs in the series the role of the antipode of the protagonist. It is with the help of Gus that Walter realizes many important things in life.
Interesting details
In the scene of the death of Gustavo, the make-up artists had to work hard. Professionals from The Walking Dead worked almost a day to create the Death Mask. Critics appreciated their work, calling the scene "the peak of make-up art."
Initially, the anti-hero of the 3rd and 4th seasons was not conceived by Gustavo, but by Hector Salamanco, who appears in the series Breaking Bad in Season 1.
The series received recognition not only from viewers, but also hit the Guinness Book of Records in 2014 as the most popular television movie of the period.
There is information that Gustavo Fring will appear in the 3rd season of the spin-off “Better Call Saul”. The series tells about the events that took place several years before the story of Walter White.
In the scenes, methamphetamine was replaced with blue tinted candies. Actors were “trained” by real professionals — a chemistry professor and an agent in the anti-drug department.