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Giancarlo Esposito says his grandfather was minutes from execution until Mussolini needed him to find an opera set "And when Mussolini came in, many, many people were opposed to him. My grandfather was responsible for all these operas" "Now my grandfather was a drinker, he liked his alcohol, and he would drink a little too much and he'd be found in the street cursing out Mussolini" Josh: "As one does" Giancarlo: "As one does. And he was immediately put in jail. And over and over again, he was let out. And Mussolini would wanna see operas and of course that incensed him" "Five minutes away from a firing line, they had marched him out and the phone call came in, 'I'm looking for Esposito. Where's Esposito? Where's Esposito?' 'Why? Why?' 'Because I wanna see Madame Butterfly and he knows where the set is'" "And literally was saved very close to losing his life. And he delivered that set and then he and my father raced away to the resistance in the mountains and finally left Naples, that call was too close for comfort"