'Narcos' Wagner Moura On His Role As Pablo Escobar | Los Angeles Times

here in Hollywood, yes, and you got the Golden Globe nomination for four, it's not going very well, it's very interesting because

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works in that same prison prism. You know, police, they are not favelas, but you know the people in that last one episode and this is not a spoiler because I guess most of you know that look, all of us didn't make it out alive, you know that very well. for him, yeah, right, I was just reading about that, you know, the attention to detail in that last scene, if I'm dying on that rooftop. Europe, can you talk a little about that madness?

Because we actually filmed that scene on the same rooftop where Pablo was killed like that and that and I spent like I said two years doing this character and working with that with those people and the crew and everyone, so we all knew that that was the end of the road for that character and the fact that he was shot, I mean, I fell into the same place where the audience was written, it was a very emotional day. III I wouldn't know how to describe exactly what we felt, that David, there really was something of an energy around that scene there.

It was and I like this, you know, I like the way we shot it and I directed it very well my biostat, a Colombian director mmm, yeah, I mean, there was something strange to say, but there was something really beautiful and moving and tragic about it. it, but there was this beauty that they didn't expect, yes, it was there, you know it, but you also know that the end of Pablo and Marcos'

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was crashing, yes, yes, they did. I think that just ended the third season, which is about the Cali cartel, the idea that the idea was always that - the idea was always to make a serious story about drug trafficking and we knew that Pablo would last like one or two seasons and If in the first season we followed ten years of his life I think for a second I thought that one year was really dynamic, very fast and more the second season of the world war was more, it was more.

I think it was more dramatic and the first season was more epic in the sense that we were really trying to explain how I work on drug trafficking and in the second season we really focused on Pablo and Iran and their emotion, you know that breached the curve and the curve starts to go down, yeah, it goes down, so we don't see, we didn't get to see the powerful guy and that was very important to me as Metro because I felt the whole time that I was making a great movie, you know, that It's because I knew how my actors in general, when they do television, don't know how.

His character will end well and I knew exactly what would happen to my character. I could build this Ark, this joke land, so the second season was the second thing that was very important to me for all of us, but they will move on. so I think now it's Kali, which is very interesting and also the Cali cartel, they were really different from sophisticated drug dealing, so like I said for us, actually for everyone, because drug dealing is a big problem around the world, but it resonates a lot. For me, as a Latin American man, to understand how this happened, how it started, how the different nuances of you know layers and types of people that made this right where it is today, you know, now you look at Mexico, for example, how crazy.

Yeah, the cartels are there and I mean, you know you mentioned this a little bit earlier, but you also like the responsibility that comes with it because the stereotypes and the idea that that comes with a lot of responsibility in playing Escobar. I don't know, because you know, in terms of Brazil, we had talked about this with people asking you, oh, the Olympics, did you go to the Olympics and are you saying at least that's a positive way to think about Brazil? now? Yes, I don't know. I mean by that, playing Escobar, did you feel a big responsibility not to play with those?

I'm sure, yes, I tried not to think about it again, but I knew all the time that it was a big problem, it was the Colombian story is divided into a bit of before and after and Paulo, he was a horrible person, It was, it was very, the amount of people that were murdered when he was alive is crazy, but again, I think it was always me. I thought it was important to tell that story trying to let the people you know know it very well, it doesn't even mean there in Colombia where people are basically aware of everything good, yes, Netflix is ​​all over the world and I think it's oh yeah, and we actually have questions from some viewers, so here's Rebecca what it was like to live with 40 extra pounds and that mustache that Rebecca, the professional courtesy, yeah, the poor paws were very sad, very difficult at first , it was great because I was just eating deliciously and again.

I guess it's just work and I miss professionally. I'm doing this for, you know, what for, but at the end of my body and I couldn't my body like that - I'm still talkative, I mean, I'm wrapped up like I don't know, I finished like a year ago and I'm still trying to get back to my previous weight, which is really how easy it is to gain weight, it's very hard to lose it and I felt something about it and yeah, girl in Los Angeles, but I felt like yeah and I felt like that wasn't my body, you know, no, it wasn't my body, so I felt very lacking in energy and you know, it wasn't pleasant, it wasn't healthy at all.

All my damn texts were all crazy so no I would never do this again but it's like in a way and I think you said this is like getting rid of Escobar in a way you're like losing weight so yeah . When I rapped I made his diet like something vegan, yes, not only to lose weight but also to get rid of his weight. I managed to lose a lot of weight, I gained it back a little, but that was very important for you to know. weight of that, yeah, most mornings, getting rid of the weight was getting rid of the energy, yeah, which wasn't good at all, so okay, we have another question from Rodrigo now that Pablo is out of the picture, will you be involved in the show behind the scenes, there is a possibility of flashbacks, no, I don't think so, you know, no, I would love to, you know, maybe at some point, like in the fifth season, return as another character.

I saw animation of a guy with a great body, very sexy and, uh, clean. shaved, yes, yes, but without flashbacks, no, I'm done with Pablo, right? And you said you were directing. Sorry, a movie. Yes, will you perform in an hour? You know, you just directed me. Okay, so this sounds like a content issue too. Have you now also thought about making a little fun out of fun as if you had these heavy issues? I would love to know what I have done after making Pablo. I have this absolute publicity in a selfless assault. speaking on a panel about stereotypes and how Latinos are portrayed in movies and my goal is to produce content to produce movies that allow people to not see the way they normally see themselves, you know, or sexy Latina women, or drug dealers or violent people. things I really want I have this project about a Brazilian guy named Sergio Vieira de Melo he was a very important guy at the UN he was supposed to be the next Secretary General he was killed in Iraq at one point when they attacked the UN headquarters in Iraq so I'm trying, my goal now is to produce things where Latinos are seen, you know, with different models, for all that, nothing, I think representation matters and I and I'm into doing this and I wanted to ask you a couple of these little questions. quick questions we asked towards the end of these interviews what was the last show you binge-watched other than narcos.

I mean, you see stranger things mmm and I forget, oh dear white people. Oh, Kasich, that's a really great program, yes, both early. Great shows What show would you love? Would you like to sit and watch? They wait. What program did you love? Would you like to sit back and watch someone else enjoy themselves for the first time? That's a very strangely worded question. Yeah, okay, I didn't understand it, yeah. I know you know what, let's skip that question where I didn't write that question. I just want you to know if you could go back and be on any classic show, what would it be?

I hear ice. Now, now, I would love to. be poorer sorry nightlife Saturday Night Live at some point there would be one of them but it's not, it's already a classic for me, although it's a new show, House of Cards, I think it's a great show, yes, yes, like that yeah, well, well, maybe SNL. can you play that Comey

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we never know yeah I would love to I can be funny thank you so much this job is really fun commute and thanks for tuning in and you can see more of these chats on the LA Times chill out thanks . you