The actor Wagner Moura49, recalled his career after managing to attract international attention with his performance in “Narcos”. In the plot, the Brazilian played the Colombian criminal Pablo Escobar.
With the success of the Netflix series, which received its first Golden Globe nomination in Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2016, the actor assessed that the doors of Hollywood had opened, but always to stereotypical roles of Latino characters. “The amount of offers I got after ‘Narcos’ to play exactly the same kind of character… I thought ‘no’. I had to say no because It’s a perception of our people“, revealed the Brazilian in an interview with Variety.
“I don’t want to continue reinforcing this type of stereotype“, he added. The actor believes that he wants to play characters that go through different facets, not just drug trafficking criminals. “I wanted to play journalists, doctors, engineers — whatever we are. We are the majority of this society.”
“I want to play the same characters that white American actors play. I don’t need to play a guy named José. Give me Michael and guess what? He’ll talk just like me, with the same accent. Because I represent a lot of people who talk exactly like me“, he concluded.
Wagner assesses that “Narcos” made him identify with a “broader Latino identity.” “I finally felt like part of the family. But I feel a responsibility not to reinforce stereotypes.”
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