Pablo is back… kind of.
And now he comes back to finish the job he started.
The cast and crew loved him, all the other actors were excited to work with him.
Johnny Rey Diaz, Wagner Moura, and Bobby Soto on the set of ‘Narcos: Mexico’.nicole franco/ netflix
And he just killed it.
I was really impressed by his work."
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Wagner, welcome back toNarcos!
Wagner Moura on ‘Narcos’.netflix
How are you feeling?
So the film is in opposition to his views of it.
So it’s a war.
So that’s a huge victory.
Yeah, can you believe that this is 2021?
Starting at the beginning, how did you directing on the final season come about?
Were these conversations that went back to your Pablo days?
No, it was sort of because of my film.
Eric gave me a lot of feedback when I was editing, and he was very excited about it.
I don’t really consider myself a director.
Honestly, I think I’m an actor who directed this film and thenNarcos.
AndNarcosis also very personal.
I wouldn’t do it if I hadn’t had a very strong connection with the show.
Because I was in the first season and now I’m in the last one.
So I immediately accepted.
It was like, “Yeah, let’s do it.”
Once you were on board, what were the conversations like in determining which episodes you’d get?
Did you have any input on that?
My film is mix of genres, but it has a lot of action in it.
There was slight change where they were doing it more classy.
In that case, there were a lot of images that we could really look and attempt to replicate.
But no one really knew where they were going and which parts of the airport they went to.
We storyboarded everything and created a sequence of events.
What really happened is El Chapo escaped into the baggage carousel.
He really did that, and I thought that that was fun to do.
But it was tragic.
That was a tragedy because a lot of people died.
That event changed a lot of things.
It really sends the show on the trajectory toward where it ends.
How surreal was that part of the experience, just being sent back to that time?
It was a little weird for me to deal with that.
Like I was editing myself in my own episodes.
But in a way there is also a connection, right?
I mean, I’m there and I’m directing.
And that was all old footage, right?
Yeah, we tried to re-edit.
That was actually Carlo’s idea.
You mentioned earlier how this kind of felt like a full-circle moment.
At least for now, as Carlo has said the door’s open for possible further extensions.
But if this is it, what hasNarcosmeant to you?
A lot.Narcoswas a really important thing for me in my life, in very different aspects.
These are the places where young people are getting killed, are dying, for nothing.
And of course,Narcosmade people know who I was everywhere in the world.
And I had many personal joys and connections.
It really connected me with being Latin American and working with people from all different countries in Latin America.
I’m still very connected to the people that madeNarcos.
There’s so many in the crew that was on the first season ofNarcosand they were still there inMexico.
So yeah, it’s very special in my life.
And I’m really proud of the show.
I think it’s important.
It’s a political show, and I love it’s also pure entertainment.
I find that sort of balance very, very hard to make.
At the same time, it’s fun to watch.
