Wagner Moura

After surprising the world with his stellar performance as Pablo Escobar in Narcos, for which he received a Golden Globes nomination in 2016, Wagner Moura disappeared as an actor until last September, when The Wasp Network, not still released commercially, was shown in Venice. So it is a big surprise to see him in his first leading role in English in Sergio, a Netflix production that was part of the Premieres program at the Sundance Film Festival, where he also was a member of the International Jury.

When Netflix launched Narcos last year, the series that dramatized the rise to power of Pablo Escobar and his Colombian cocaine cartel, they had a bona fide hit on their hands. That success was due to one of the most amazingly true organized crime sagas of our times and in no small part to the show’s star, Wagner Moura.