Giancarlo Esposito says it’s ‘very possible’ that Gustavo Fring was gay

Although the need to queer-code villains is getting less and less, it's safe to say that when Breaking Bad killed off Gustavo Fring in season four (2011) it left more questions than answers.

Giancarlo Esposito showed us all what a badass villain should look like when he made his bit-part role as Gus Fring into one of the most menacing bad guys in TV history.

The 65-year-old famously starred as a restaurant entrepreneur and narcotics distributor who didn't take s**t from anyone.

Opening up about the character, Esposito told LADbible: "I think that when it comes to business, Gustavo Fring is all business.

"Although I think he hires meth cooks and chefs who are the best.

"But he demands excellence. And I think what you people really may not know is that Gustavo can cook himself. He is that good."

But one fan theory that's always been up in the air is about Gus' sexuality.

In Better Call Saul - the prequel to Breaking Bad - season six suggests that Gus has a romantic attraction to a man named David.

And in Breaking Bad, the distributor has a very 'close' relationship with Max, his former business partner who gets shot in the head.

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When asked straight up if Gus was gay, Esposito told us: "That [theory has] been since Breaking Bad."

"Surmise, it was very possible," he admits.

Although he said the great thing is that it's still not 'definitive'.

"I really like the fact that you don't know either way."

Now, the veteran actor stars in Guy Ritchie's new The Gentlemen series, playing American billionaire and methamphetamine mogul Stanley Johnson.

Perhaps a nod to his Breaking Bad days.

"It was [exciting] to be able to play one of the richest men in the world, and to have him be African American, is just even more fitting," he said.

"I was excited to be able to work with Guy Ritchie and be in conversations with him about who this guy really was, underneath at all, and to join this incredible British cast of really fine actors who are telling Guy Ritchie's tale in such an eloquent way."

The eight-part Netflix series follows the Duke of Halstead, Eddie Horniman (Theo James), in a sort of spin-off from the 2019 film of the same name.

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Horniman is a soldier who returns to his family seat after the death of his father.

He then unwittingly inherits the entire estate - including a secret family drug business - over his older brother Frederick 'Freddy' Horniman (Daniel Inge).

Ray Winstone stars as drug kingpin Bobby Glass, who runs a London-based industrial cannabis empire from prison.

Meanwhile, Kaya Scodelario plays Susie Glass, Bobby’s fashionable and ruthless daughter, handling the drug operation while her dad is locked up.

Vinnie Jones also features as the estate's groundskeeper Geoff Seacombe.

The Gentlemen is available to watch on Netflix now.