We ask Narcos star Wagner Moura about his unlikely transformation into the world’s most notorious drug dealer.

To prepare for playing Pablo Escobar, the reviled and revered leader of the Medellin drug cartels in the monster Netflix series Narcos, Wagner Moura pored over any information he could find about the legendary criminal (and for some, a modern day saint). And then he wiped it all from his mind.

“So many books — especially in Spanish — but I had to forget everything I learned,” the 40-year-old Brazilian says. “I needed to bring my own interpretation to his story.”

So we kinda had to wonder — why read the books at all if you’re just going to forget them? Wouldn’t it be better to spend your free time gardening or learning... Read More