‘Narcos’ Spoilers, Updates: Netflix Renews Series for Seasons 3-4; Wagner Moura Feels Freedom, Relief After Wrapping Pablo Escobar’s Life

‘Narcos’ is set to return for season 3 and 4 with a new primary antagonist after the series’ renewal was announced by Netflix only recently. Wagner Moura, who played Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar, admitted that he felt freedom and relief after wrapping up his character’s life on the small screen.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Netflix has officially confirmed the renewal of seasons 3 and 4 for the crime web televisions series ‘Narcos’ on September 6. Although the series’ main character Pablo Escobar finally met his demise on season 2’s finale, it was revealed that the show would go on.

Executive producer Eric Newman said, “I think that there’s a lot of story left to be told in Colombia…  show has always been about cocaine. We purposely did not call the show Pablo Escobar or Medellin … If somebody wants another season of the show, we would sit down and draw from the pretty massive amount of real estate and research that we’ve done and do something kind of cool.”

According to the Independent, executive producer José Padilha said in a separate interview, “We’ll stop when the drug trade stops.”

Co-executive producer Eric Newman also said, “We’ll stop when you stop. That’s our pact with America.” He added, “It allowed us to slow down and live with the characters a little bit more than we could have last season… Now we’re watching his empire collapse around him.”

Meanwhile, Wagner Moura expressed his relief over stepping down as the series’ anti-hero. Moura played the infamous Columbian drug lord and Medellin Cartel leader for the first two seasons. The 40-year old actor received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor – Television Series Drama for his performance as Pablo Escobar.

Moura admitted during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, “I feel relieved. I feel that I’m free. I can’t work as an actor for the next year. I’m not going to act, I’m going to direct, because anything that I would do as an actor would have the influence of Pablo.”

He continued, “I need some time to really get rid of the whole thing, it’s great to move on. But I look at these past two years and I look at the series with a lot of love and pride. I’m really happy and proud of what we did.”

Moura reportedly had to gain 40 pounds for the role and has recently shed it all off. When asked about what he was going to miss the most about being on the show, he replied, “I’ll miss the experience. Narcos was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.”

He explained, “For the first time in my life, I felt that I was a part of something. I was a Latin American person talking about something that resonated a lot with me and Colombia is the county that introduced me to this world, to the fact that we are all connected in South America, despite language and culture. Unfortunately, one of the things that puts us together is the drug trade. There are a lot of other great things that connect us, but one of them is a bad one, and it was great to be there and know more about this country. It was something that really changed my life.”

‘Narcos’ is a crime web television series that originally aired on Netflix on August 2015. Season 2 premiered on September 2, 2016. Season’s 3 and 4 were announced for renewal on September 6.

The first two seasons followed the story of Pablo Escobar’s rise as the world’s most notorious drug lords in history. It starred Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal, Joanna Christie, Juan Pablo Raba, Paulina Gaitan, and Damian Alcazar.