Giancarlo Esposito Reveals What Drew Him to The Series 'Parish'

3 months ago

'Parish' star Giancarlo Esposito stops by The Hollywood Reporter's studio in Park City during the Sundance film festival to talk about the series, which focuses on a family man in New Orleans, whose son is violently murdered, his business collapses and old habits resurface. Esposito reveals how the project related to an experience that he had lived.

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00:00What do I do? What's more important? Is it that I survive or that my children survive and my wife survives to take care of them?

00:09And so that wasn't a really emotional point for me in my life, and that's what drew me to Paris.

00:18At a certain point in my career, I realized that what I do the best is what I'm really connected to.

00:24And so when this came to me through my manager, and I like to call him my producing partner now, Josh Kesselman, was the British version of this show, which was called The Driver.

00:35And what I loved about it was that it had a very dramatic characterization about it coming out of an edgy situation.

00:45And it felt to me that it was driven, not only because it was called The Driver, but driven by human emotion.

00:52And so I was looking for something to develop that could be my future.

01:00When you're able to do a lot of different kinds of work and work with great people, you sort of get focused about what you want to do for yourself.