Matias Varela 2017+

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Get all the latest news on Matias Varela in 2017+.

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Looking forward to Narcos in 2017

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When is it airing? I need to do some viewing of the earlier seasons.

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Matias continues to shoot Narcos...

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The star treatment 

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Matias is covering King Magazine in Sweden this month. I'll see if I can find the article and its translation.

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This is a partial interview


EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW IN KING: Matias Varela is in the next season of "Narcos"

Swedish actor Matias Varela is in the next season of Netflix TV series "Narcos".

In an exclusive interview with King he tells how it is to film in Colombia, and that he has one of two main roles.

Matias Varela, 36, will appear in the next season of the hit Netflix series "Narcos". The series is about the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar's life, where the main role is done by Wagner Moura. The first season was released in August 2015 and a second season viewers could see in September, 2016.



In the new issue of King released next week says Matias Varela how it is to record in Colombia.



What is a typical workday?



- Although the Narcos are so big the budget is limited. I can not say exactly what it is, because I do not know, but I can guess that it is located at 40-50 million dollars a season. A fraction of what it costs to record a great movie. We will do ten hours for the money. Therefore, we can not spend as much time on each stage. I do one of two main roles, and therefore I am in many scenes, so there will be long days. Then I study the script, five or six pages a day. It does not get much spare time. Colombia's not a country where you can move anyway. Some places are dangerous. With that said, people are very accommodating and dimmed. Always with the smile, he tells unique to King.

How's security?



- Many of the stuff that we are filming takes place in rough areas, and it pops up the people who live there to watch. It can be quite stressful. I'm standing there with a cap gun, and so will the guys who have riktig.Vid few occasions we had the army with us, when apparently not even the security guards sufficed. Someone made a deal with some commanders and borrowed the thirty soldiers of any battalion.



Matias tells King that the Narcos are much, much more physical than he expected because the series is played out in an authentic setting.

- Take a scene like this: I would skid into a car, stop it, jump out and run the fastest I can out of the picture. The street is not empty, but full of extras that I must either collide with, avoiding or pushing off to make it look as effective as possible. Some are stuntmen. I run everything I can, with a quad 750 cc for me where there is a cameraman. A drone overhead filming too. An A camera stands on a dolly and is moving towards me. Everything happens at the same time. After four shots, you have been running between 60 and 80 meters as fast as you can, with microphones in ordinary clothes and boots, on uneven ground.



The third season will thus Matias Varela have a role in, which will have its premiere in 2017 at Netflix. Matias Varela has previously played Jorge Chavez in "fast cash", and also appeared in Arne Dahl, Point Break, and Assassin's Creed.



Read the interview with Matias Varela in the new issue of King available in stores next week.

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Happy birthday to Matias!

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I've missed a few Mattias posts but this one really counts. Mark your binge calendars ya'll Narcos September 1st.  :popcorn

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deadline.com/2017/08/narcos-season-3-trailer-cali-cartel-pedro-pascal-1202141466/

‘Narcos’ Season 3 Trailer: Attention Now Turns To The Cali Cartel

Netflix has released the official trailer for the third season of drug cartel drama Narcos. It was unveiled today in New York City, where this season was partially filmed.

Now that the bloody hunt for Pablo Escobar has ended, the DEA turns its attention to the powerful Cali Cartel and its four Kings — Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (Damian Alcazar), leader of Cali Cartel; Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela (Francisco Denis), brains behind the rise of the of Cali Cartel and Gilberto’s brother; Pacho Herrera (Alberto Ammann), the on-the-low hitman, runs the Mexican connection and international distribution and Chepe Santacruz Londono (Pepe Rapazote) who runs the satellite NYC empire of the Colombian drug network.

Other new players this season include Jorge Salcedo (Matias Varela), Cali’s head of security who prioritizes his wife and kids’ protection over his bosses; DEA agents Chris Feistl (Michael Stahl-David) and Daniel Van Ness (Matt Whelan), who enter the operation with enthusiasm and inexperience; Franklin Jurado (Miguel Angel Silvestre)- the cartel’s money launderer who unknowingly puts his wife, Christina (Kerry Bishe) in mortal danger and David Rodriguez (Arturo Castro), Miguel’s oldest son, who is reluctant at first to take a leading role in the cartel structure.


Pedro Pascal stars as DEA agent Javier Peña.


Narcos Season 3 launches globally on Netflix September 1.

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‘Narcos’ Season 3 Trailer Teases the Rise of Cali Cartel

Narcos season 3 now has a full trailer. And although Pablo Escobar is dead, the action only seems to be heating up. The third season of Netflix’s ‘inspired by real events’ drug drama is due to land online soon, and by the looks of it, it’s set to be a very tense run of episodes.

With Escobar (Wagner Moura) out of the picture, his rivals in the Cali Cartel are due to rise in both prominence and notoriety. This new empire will be every bit as drug-fuelled, dodgy and deadly as the reign that preceded it. You can watch the preview in the space above.

“It was cocaine incorporated,” the trailer teases, spelling out the scale and ambition of the Cali Cartel in ominous tones, “and they ran it like a Fortune 500 company.”

Deadline explains that Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (Damian Alcazar) was the big chief of the Cali Cartel. Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela (Francisco Denis) was his brother. Pacho Herrera (Alberto Ammann) was a hitman connected to the crew. And Chepe Santacruz Londono (Pepe Rapazote) was their connection in New York City.

Pedro Pascal Narcos Season 3 Trailer: Witness the Rise of an Empire

Judging by this new teaser, these four heads of the Cali Cartel will be sitting pretty atop of the DEA’s hit list during Narcos season 3. Returnee agent Javier Pena (Pedro Pascal) will surely be hot on their heels throughout. Presumably, a number of less law-abiding enemies will be hunting them down, too.

It seems safe to expect things to go from bad to worse this season, with massive piles of cocaine and near-constant gunfire surely being on the agenda. Plus, Netflix has already ordered season 4, so there’s no need to wrap things up neatly in these next ten episodes.

In fact, rather than winding things down, Netflix seems to be ramping them up. There will be new faces added to the mix this season, including the Cali Cartel’s security expert Jorge Salcedo (Matias Varela), money launderer Franklin Jurado (Miguel Angel Silvestre) and reluctant gang member David Rodriguez (Arturo Castro). There are also two new DEA agents: Chris Feistl (Michael Stahl-David) and Daniel Van Ness (Matt Whelan).

Place your bets now on which of those characters will actually make it through the ten episodes of season 3. If previous episodes are anything to go by, the only thing worth betting on is an ever-increasing body count on both sides of the war on drugs.

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Matias doing press for "Narcos 3" with his beautiful co-star actress Taliana Vargas

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Matias at the Narcos 3 premiere

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Matias with the Narcos lead the talented Pedro Pacal at the 3rd Season Premiere in Bogata, Columbia

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Don't want to spoil anything for you if you haven't watched and I'm surely not someone who lives to scribe Yelp reviews but I had to say a few words about Matias's impressive performance in "Narcos 3".

Up until now we've seen Matias in a few minor roles; most recently in "Point Break" with Luke Bracey. Mostly all quality projects but not complex multi-dimensional work that gave an inkling of his true potential. That's why Matias's role as Jorge Salcedo in "Narcos 3"(please don't google the character's name if you don't want to spoil the series ending) is such a surprise.

Matias's portrayal is a thrilling roller coaster of quiet machismo, physical action sequences, and simmering panic.  He has the ability to shift emotions masterfully consuming the viewer with the realization of how high the stakes are for all involved. His skillset is so taut he could easily be mistaken for an A-list actor. That being said, I predict Matias will be one of Sweden's most sought after talents in the years to come. 

... yes, he was that good.

Even if subtitles (Much is also in English) and crime dramas aren't your thing. "Narcos 3" is worth the 10 episode Netflix commitment, and you don't even have to watch the first 2 seasons to know what's happening. 

If you have a few nights to binge a new show and a Netflix account, I highly reccomend "Narcos 3". And if Matias happens to come across this review post, you should be very proud Sir.

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www.bigissue.com/interviews/narcos-star-matias-varela-question-culture-question-poverty/

Narcos star Matias Varela: “The question of culture is a question of poverty”

Spanish-born, Swedish-raised actor Matias Varela talks about class, immigration and his role as Jorge Salcedo in Narcos

Jorge Salcedo is the most morally conflicted character in the third season of Narcos. In preparation were you able to speak to the real-life Salcedo?

That was an impossibility given the fact he’s on the witness protection programme. That said, I had the chance to talk to people who talked to him. This happened in the early ’90s, which means there is a lot of people around today that documented what happened at that time. The internet is our best friend, ask Mr Google anything and he will answer. My research wasn’t only about the cartels, also about the country itself, the people and the music. There’s a little bit more to Colombia than just cocaine.

The main character of the show is Colombia
How important is it that Narcos was filed on location in Colombia?

Being able to shoot on the streets helps you a hell of a lot as an actor. Whenever you’re boring something in the background is super interesting. It really helps you get away with bad acting – that is a reality. And it helps you get into the story yourself. You believe it is happening for real because it is happening for real.

If they had done the show in a different way it wouldn’t be what it is. The main character of the show is Colombia.

Salcedo makes the decision to leave the Cali Cartel, but how do you think he justified working for them in the first place?

That is the most crucial question about the character I portray. He is a man who has been to university, he comes from upper middle class, his father is a general, his wife is a lawyer, a very strong woman. My answer would be greed, and that was his way of becoming someone. There was a big portion of naivety when he went into the cartel. He didn’t comprehend the mechanics in which this organisation actually works. He thought he was so fucking smart: ‘When I’m done I’m going to leave, say thank you guys and take my expertise somewhere else’. That was very naïve.

Is the story of your character the most tragic?

I would say so, for sure. Ultimately it’s a question of class. How do you cope, say no to money or wealth in a country that has cocaine? By educating the young, by giving people the chance to do something else. I grew up in a working class society, as an immigrant.

You moved from Spain to Sweden when you were very young.

My parents were immigrants. I don’t consider myself Spanish or Swedish, I consider myself a human being, that’s it.

In the last seven years, my life has had a pretty dramatic change. I know some millionaires now and it’s funny, they do the same things regardless of ethnicity or religious beliefs. They all go to the same schools, drive the same cars, collect the same art. It seems to me the question of culture is a question of poverty. The rich Muslims drink the same champagne as the rich Catholics and the Buddhist and the Hindu.

We live in a time racism is blooming, especially in Europe where it’s more pronounced. You can get a truck and run people over. It’s a question about class, not religion.

That’s why Colombia doesn’t have the same problems anymore, because people are doing better here, the school system is good here, people are getting educated. If you give a person the chance to do good and have a salary – or do bad and sell drugs, I believe most will do good. As long as you give them a chance to do good they will do good.

The third season of Narcos is available now on Netflix. Read more about the show in an upcoming edition of The Big Issue

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Jorge Salcedo: Was the Narcos Season 3 Character Real?


Narcos Season 3, now available for streaming on Netflix, doesn’t focus much on Pablo Escobar, and it introduces compelling new characters and narratives that appear ripped from the headlines. The most compelling character, in many people’s minds, is Jorge Salcedo, the head of security for the Cali Cartel.

Even more intriguing, Salcedo is real.

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The show starts each of its 10 episodes by showing a Time Magazine cover that features the four “Godfathers” of the Cali Cartel, a nod to its realism. They’re taking over the Colombian cocaine trade to the U.S., in the vacuum caused by Escobar’s downfall, but they’re soon riven by differences over whether to go “legitimate” (on the surface at least.) A DEA agent’s sense of justice – much to the frustration of the CIA – leads to dangerous paranoia and increasing violence within the cartel, as well as revelations about the extent of its political power.

However, the true soul of series 3 seems, in many respects, to be Salcedo, who maintains a sense of nobility and decency among the mayhem, the mirror, in a way, of Javier Pena’s DEA agent. Good people can sometimes do very bad things, as Salcedo admits when he tells his wife he is a good person before catching himself and telling her that he was one. He’s played by Matias Varela, a Swedish-born actor with Spanish heritage, who captures the character’s humanity through the eyes. He, along with Pena, gets the most screen time.

That all has a lot of people wondering: How historically accurate is Narcos Season 3? Was there really a Jorge Salcedo? How accurate was the portrayal of the character? The show starts each episode with a disclaimer that, although it’s based on real events, there were some dramatic liberties taken.

Warning: There are some plot spoilers ahead.

Yes, there really was a Jorge Salcedo. In fact, the real Jorge Salcedo consulted on the show, and he spoke to EW about it. Although he didn’t actually do everything he’s shown doing in Narcos 3, Salcedo believes the portrayal is largely accurate. You can see a photo of the real Salcedo here. He’s really in the witness protection program, although his penchant for fast food and whether he worked as a car mechanic are details unknown. Thus, there are no recent photos of the real Salcedo.

You’ll have to do with Varela:

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There’s a book on the real Salcedo by William Rempel.

Does the real Salcedo think Narcos Season 3 is accurate? He thinks it’s substantially true, but not specifically so in every case.

“The story in general remains the same [as the truth]. However, they present some happenings, and they put them so that it was me that made them. So he told me about one or two incidents that I may have known about or was around when it happened, but it wasn’t always me who was executing all those things,” he told EW.


He says that some of the most dramatic scenes in the show were real, though, or close to real. For example, asked about the scene where Miguel Rodriguez, a Cali Godfather, puts a plastic bag over the character’s head, the real Salcedo said: “Something very close happened to that. Because at that point, they were suspecting about me. They were having a meeting, and they were excluding me of everything.”

Other things didn’t happen the way the show said they did, though. For example, the real Salcedo says he never killed the hitman Navegante, and he did have conflict with Miguel Rodriguez’ son, but his name was William, not David. It was true that he was the son of a general who wanted to leave the cartel to start his own security firm. You can read more of the Salcedo interview with EW here.

CNN published an article in 2012 by the real Jorge Salcedo that was titled “What I saw inside the Cali drug cartel.”

He wrote, in part, “First, some background: I used to be Jorge Salcedo. I left my name in Colombia when I entered the U.S. witness protection program 16 years ago. I also left a home, a country, friends, family, even my past. But maybe my experience will help show the importance of fighting corruption as a way to fight the cartels.”

He ran security for Miguel Rodgriez Orejuela and “managed to deliver nearly a million dollars in payoffs. And I witnessed many, many millions more.” He added, “When I agreed to assist U.S. drug enforcement agents 16 years ago, the Cali cartel was making $7 billion a year. Cartel documents turned over to Colombian authorities exposed a vast network of corruption. There was public outrage. Widespread arrests and firings followed, and the grip of corruption was broken.”

In 2007, The Los Angeles Times reported, “The Colombian drug lords Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, 63, and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, 67, entered guilty pleas and were ushered off to federal prison for the next 30 years.” The newspaper interviewed Salcedo.

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“Aiding U.S. drug agents unexpectedly and at great risk was a senior cartel official, the head of security and intelligence for the syndicate. For years he had protected the bosses, their wives and children. Then, he crossed them,” The Times reported, quoting Salcedo as saying, “It was very risky, but I was trapped in a nightmare, in a totally corrupt environment. I had to escape.” As a result, he was marked for death by the cartel.

Described the Times: “The wonkish, soft-spoken family man was an unlikely drug gang recruit. He held university degrees in mechanical engineering and industrial economics. He started his career designing forklifts and other machinery. Later he ran an oil recovery business.”

The Rempel book blurb on Amazon reads in part, “Jorge rises to become head of security for Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, principal godfather of the $7-billion-a-year Cali drug cartel. Jorge tries to turn a blind eye to the violence, corruption, and brutality that surround him, and he struggles privately to preserve his integrity even as he is drawn deeper into the web of cartel operations. Then comes an order from the godfathers that he can’t obey—but can’t refuse. Jorge realizes that his only way out is to bring down the biggest, richest crime syndicate of all time.”

There’s no question that Salcedo is the heart of the Narcos Season 3 series, along with Javier Pena as the DEA agent determined to find justice in a scenario without any real victories. They give viewers people to root for amidst the corruption.

Boyd Holbrook, who played character Steve Murphy, isn’t in season 3 for long. Both Murphy and Pablo Escobar do make appearances at the beginning of the story 3 series, but we will leave it at that so as not to spoil the plot (suffice it to say that Salcedo gets a lot more screen time.)