‘Narcos’ Season 3: New Cast Members Confirmed, Things To Expect After Pablo Escobar


Netflix hit series Narcos has been renewed for Season 3 and 4 earlier this year. Many fans wondered if the show would go on after the series documented the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar in the first and second season.

Narcos Season 3 is expected to be released next year and some of the new and old cast members have been announced. According to The Independent, Kerry Bishe has joined the cast as Christina, an American woman who is married to a Colombian that is involved with the drug business. Other new actors joining Narcos Season 3 cast are Michael Stahl-David, who appeared in the award-winning miniseries Show Me a Hero, along with Matt Whelan. Both actors will play DEA agents in Colombia.

The photo above confirms that DEA agent Javier Pena played by Pedro Pascal will be returning in Narcos Season 3. However, Pena’s partner agent Steve Murphy may not be returning. Boyd Holbrook who plays the agent also narrated the show for the first two seasons.

Narcos producer Eric Newman has stated that the series was also going to go past Pablo Escobar. The teaser for Narcos Season 3 all but confirms that the next season will focus on the Cali Cartel, many of whom have been introduced in the series due to their connection to Pablo Escobar.

Producer Eric Newman has revealed that there will be a lot of new cast members in Narcos Season 3. The next installment will be a chronological sequel and pick up where Pablo Escobar left the drug business. However, The Cali Cartel were not as violent as Pablo and were better connected politically. In the current season, we see members of the Cali Cartel indirectly work with Search Bloc through Los Pepes to aid in hunting down Pablo Escobar.

One of the new cast members to look forward to is Chepe, one of the four ringleaders in the Cali Cartel. Pacho Herrera and Rodriguez brothers Miguel and Gilberto played by Damian Alcazar will be a big part of Narcos Season 3.

Rather than thinking of the Cali Cartel as a Pablo Escobar replacement, Eric Newman reveals to the Hollywood Reporter that the new drug lords are a different animal for the Colombian and American forces to tackle.

“Unlike Escobar, who had positioned himself as an outlaw, Cali was very much a part of the system,” he said about the new but different kind of villain. “While Escobar was a single-cell organism, they were a complex, multicelled organism.”

Wagner Moura’s performance of Pablo Escobar is hard to top. In Narcos Season 3 we see a new drug cartel that have learned some lessons of the past. Rather than going to war with the government like Pablo, the Cali Cartel has more success penetrating the very fabric of the Colombian government. According to Eric Newman, the Cali Cartel were deeply involved in politics.

“They bought the presidency of Colombia in 1994. They were insiders, and it’s very much a response to the level of violence that the hunt for Escobar brought to Colombia. We’re inheriting an administration in government and populous in Colombia that were tired of the violence and that changed the way they were going to wage the war, so it’s a more complicated environment in ways. It’s difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys.”

In Narcos Season 3, you can expect a focus on corruption from the American and Colombian drug enforcement agents and the leaders pulling the strings.

There are a lot of big changes coming to Narcos with several new cast members and a new villain.

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