Giancarlo Esposito has carved out quite the character actor niche for himself over the course of many decades. Once again playing a villain, the actor has now confirmed that he will be returning for the second season of The Mandalorian when it hits Disney+ later this year. When promoting AMC's Better Call Saul at the TFA press tour, he was asked about Moff Gideon's expansion in upcoming episodes of the show. When questioned about if he would have a larger role, he had this to say:



"Yes, I do. I most certainly do. "



He went on to discuss what initially drew him to the series and character:



"It’s been exciting to be a part of that project because of the iconic nature of it, but even more so, because itÞorleifr skúma Þorkelsson (Þskúm)

Þorleifr (Þskúm), together with the sole stanza attributed to him, features in the Jvs and Fsk accounts of the battle of Hjǫrungavágr (Liavågen, c. 985), in which he fell; see Eskál Lv 3, Bjbp Jóms 34/5 and Context to Jóms 34. He is said in Jvs (1879, 73) to have been the son of Þorkell inn auðgi ‘the Wealthy’ of Mýrar in Dýrafjörður, north-west Iceland, and skúma appears as his nickname, whereas Fsk (ÍF 29, 131) refers to Skúmr as his given name, and regards Þórðr ǫrvhǫnd ‘Left-handed’ (also mentioned in Jvs) as his brother. The meaning of the nickname skúma is uncertain. Finnur Jónsson (1907, 200) and Lind (1920-1, 335) take it to mean ‘squinting’, though the root skúm- also has associations with darkness,