Pablo Escobar’s life on the line in Narcos season two

Season two of Narcos narrows its scope to Colombian drug lord Escobar’s final days on the run, hiding out with his family, writes Ed Power

WAGNER Moura has lost the double chin and is working on the pot-belly. As he walks away from two years of playing cocaine kingpin, Pablo Escobar, in the Netflix hit, Narcos, he is deep into what he describes as “detoxification”. You don’t shrug off a character such as Escobar with a finger click. Week by week, day by day, you shed his skin.

“Losing weight is not only about losing weight,” he says. “It is about losing Pablo. I lived two years with this body that is not mine, this energy that is not mine. It is a process of detox. I have to get rid of the spiritual, psychological, physical aspects of Escobar. ”