Giancarlo Esposito Reveals ‘It Would Be an Honor’ to Join the MCU

For some fans, Giancarlo Esposito will forever be synonymous with Breaking Bad’s Gus Fring, The Boys baddie Stan Edgar, or The Mandalorian’s Moff Gideon. However, there are those who wonder what role Esposito might tackle in a DC Comics or Marvel adaptation. One X user wrote they could see Esposito “killing it” in the role of DC’s Ray Palmer, aka Atom. The Atom was portrayed in the CW’s Arrowverse by Brandon Routh, and, as it turns out, Esposito would consider it “an honor” to be a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And he’s particularly interested in the X-Men characters Charles Xavier and Magneto. Esposito answered the question during British GQ’s Actually Me: