Wagner Moura playing as Pablo Escobar in 'Narcos" (Photo : Facebook)
"Narcos" has added two new series regulars for its forthcoming third season on Netflix.
As first learned by The Hollywood Reporter, producers of the drug cartel drama has cast Michael Stahl-David (Show Me a Hero) and Matt Whelan to play pivotal roles in "Narcos" Season 3. Stahl-David has been tapped to play Chris Feistl, a young American DEA agent who moves to Colombia to handle the investigation of the Cali Cartel in the wake of Pablo Escobar's death. Whelan will play his partner, Daniel Van Ness.
The duo will join Pedro Pascal who is set to reprise his role as DEA agent Javier Pena. For the part of Agent Murphy (played by Boyd Holbrook), his return on "Narcos" Season 3 is yet to be determined as the actor is currently filming Logan, the third Wolverine movie.
The first two seasons of "Narcos" polarized on Pablo Escobar's saga as the drug kingpin of the Medellin cartel. Moving forward, the new bunch of episodes will shift to Cali's leader, Gilberto (played by Damian Alcazar). However, according to showrunner Eric Newman the new major player will not necessarily be the show's new villain.
"We don't want to replace Pablo Escobar," Newman told the publication in September.
"Unlike Escobar, who had positioned himself as an outlaw, Cali was very much a part of the system. Pablo was protected by the people who loved him and Cali was protected by a political and economic system that they had rather ingeniously built. It's a different kind of villain."
In addition to Stahl-David and Whelan, fans of "Narcos" have yet to meet even more new faces in the upcoming third and fourth installments. As revealed by Newman, viewers will likely see the characters who are part of the "unknowns in the drug war" as the new season progresses.
All episodes of "Narcos" Season 3 is slated to debut sometime in 2017 on Netflix.
