Not only is Giancarlo Esposito preparing to turn his graphic novel The Venetian into a film (“I wanted to explore my Italian and African American heritage, and I wanted to explore an expatriate from America going back to Italy. We have a script already written … we’ll raise funds to shoot it in Venice”) but one of the GFFA’s uber-baddies makes it very clear that he’s not done exploring his dark side yet, as he explains to Deadline.
“I’m not typecast, I can make a choice to do what I do. I think I’m still eradicating the bad guy within me. There’s darkness and light in all of us, and I think from the traumatic childhood that I grew up in, I’ve had to spend time letting go of that angry Black man who wasn’t accepted in America for being part Italian and part Black. I’m not done with being a bad guy.”
