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Giancarlo Esposito, best known for such critically praised roles as Mickey from Sesame Street and Jumpin’ Jack from Equalizer, has been pretty busy following his departure from Breaking Bad. Not only does he have roles in movies such as Alex Cross and the psycholigical thriller Adele (not to be confused with the singer of course), but he’s also still keeping busy with television, with a recurring role on Once Upon a Time and as a new regular in the J.J Abrams/Eric Kripke Revolution, set to premiere tomorrow. Well doing interviews on that one, Esposito let it slip that there has been talks about him returning to Breaking Bad…and his idea on how his character should return is, well, pretty interesting to say the least.

Note: Spoilers up until Season 4 of Breaking Bad will be revealed in this post. So if you are for some reason interested in reading this article and DON’T watch Breaking Bad, turn away now.

So yeah, that dude’s face TOTALLY got exploded off, right? So the idea of Gus returning to the show is as far fetched as say Tuco coming back from the grave. But lo! Giancarlo Esposito has an explanation for that! In an interview with E! Online, Esposito pitched how he would best like to return to the role of Gus Fring:

“I want to come back in Walt’s dream and haunt him.”

So yeah…pretty simple pitch there. Could Esposito have been joking? Well, it’s a possibility, but he did mention before hand that “there have been talks” and certain ideas have been “floating around.” So that’s a light confirmation that the Vince Gilligan and Co. have been at least THINKING about it. The question is, do we even want him back? The end of Gus Fring was amazing, and I’m not sure I would want to see him back as a spectral haunting Walter White’s dreams. That just seems to generic and on the nose to me. That said, maybe a flashback would be okay. Lord knows we still have a few lingering questions about him. Like what the hell was with the whole Chilean background thing? Was that intentionally ignored to add some mystery to the character. If not, it sucks that that plot line was dropped.

Whatever the case, what do you guys think? Is Esposito’s idea for bringing back Gus a sound one?

-Matthew