Giancarlo Esposito reveals he considered plotting his murder when he was broke [Video]

Breaking Bad actor Giancarlo Esposito may be a household name now, but there was a time he was so down on his luck he considered hiring someone to murder him so his family would get an insurance payout.

The actor talked about going through two bankruptcies and a foreclosure on his home before he landed his iconic role as Gustavo Fring in Breaking Bad.

“My way out in my brain was, ‘Hey, do you get life insurance if someone commits suicide? Do they get the bread?’ My wife had no idea why I was asking this stuff,” Esposito recalled in an interview on SiriusXM’s Jim & Sam.

“I started scheming. If I got somebody to knock me off, death by misadventure, [my family] would get the insurance. I had four kids. I …