{"id":504031,"date":"2026-06-21T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/504031\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:11:08","slug":"breaking-bad-actor-giancarlo-esposito-embraces-islam-in-saudi-arabia-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/504031\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Bad actor Giancarlo Esposito embraces Islam in Saudi Arabia: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">American actor Giancarlo Esposito, known for his role as Gus Fring in the television series Breaking Bad, has embraced Islam during a stay in Saudi Arabia, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Saudi Gazette reported on Sunday that General Entertainment Authority Chairman Turki Al-Sheikh said Esposito recited the Shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith, and joined members of a production team in prayer at a mosque while filming in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">According to Al-Sheikh, the actor&#8217;s decision followed positive experiences during his time in Saudi Arabia and interactions with Muslims while working on a production in the country.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">He also said Esposito expressed appreciation for the community and hospitality he encountered during filming.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">A video shared on social media showed the actor praying alongside members of the production team inside a mosque, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American actor Giancarlo Esposito, known for his role as Gus Fring in the television series Breaking Bad, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-504031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}