“Pablo dies, yeah.” But this attracted Wagner Moura to the role of Escobar even more when signing on for Season 1. Where its inaugural 10 episodes covered just over a decade, Season 2 looks set to flip that device on its head, instead focusing on Escobar’s final year. “It’s now about this guy running,” Moura told Empire, “he’s being hunted by everybody. He starts a war against not only his enemies, but the country itself.”
But Moura’s exit doesn’t spell bad news entirely: “the idea since the beginning was to keep talking about the drug trade, and there are so many things to talk about.” So, while Pablo may be gone, Narcos’ drug war looks set to rage on.
Season 2 arrives on Netflix on September 2. Read more on this (and more upcoming shows and films than you can shake a stick at) in the new issue of Empire, on sale now.
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