Narcos: Mexico, the acclaimed spinoff of the game-changing Netflix series Narcos, returns for its final blow on November 5. After two seasons focused on the death of DEA agent Kiki Camarena (Michael Peña, Ant-Man and the Wasp) at the hands of the fast-rising drug lord Félix Gallardo (Diego Luna, Andor), the latter’s arrest has left the door open for the third season to usher in new faces in the mad scramble for power.

But though erstwhile narrator Walt Breslin (Scoot McNairy, A Quiet Place Part II) is still gunning for the cartels, especially current big man around town Amado Carrillo Fuentes (José María Yázpik, who has been part of the franchise since Narcos), the series has also broadened its scope to include the perspective of female characters in the fight. Enedina Arellano Felix (Mayra Hermosillo) finds herself more involved in the family business than ever after a personal tragedy while journalist Andrea Nuñez (Luisa Rubino) will stop at nothing to expose the corrupt truths in her town.

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Hermosillo and Rubino spoke with Screen Rant about bringing these women to life, and how their private desires mix with a war much larger than themselves.

Screen Rant: Enedina is in a different place now, and we get a little bit more focus on the domestic or softer side of her life. Can you talk about exploring that?

Mayra Hermosillo: Well, it was beautiful. She falls in love. I think Mayra will never get married ever, and now I have the chance to experience a great wedding.

Also, I think she believes that she can get out of this business because she’s in love. She wants to be in her house with her husband – and then everything changes.

Luisa, welcome to Narcos: Mexico. Can you talk about the balance between being a righteous journalist ready to expose corruption, and then also finding yourself in shark-infested waters where you could die at any moment?

Luisa Rubino: Right, it’s such a risky profession. Even nowadays, a lot of journalists get killed, unfortunately. But Andrea’s motor is the truth, so she’ll do whatever it takes to have the truth and to have the people know what’s really going on out there. Because there were a lot of lies, and there were a lot of things going on – things to make people not think about the real issue that was Narcos.

So, Andrea will do anything that’s possible to take that out.

Things cannot stay in blissful domesticity for Enedina, and she takes a turn for the perhaps more savage and more business-oriented. What is it like to be the power behind the throne of the Arellano cartel?

Mayra Hermosillo: I think the character of Enedina, for me, shows that we can take different paths when something very painful happens to us. She took the revenge path. “I have to show that they cannot laugh at us, and we are the stronger [ones] here.”

She twists the objective of the past seasons. She was like, “My family’s first, and that’s it.” And now it’s like, “Yes, my family’s first. But I’m going to show you that we are powerful, and I’m going to show you that we [have] all the control of this business.” And I think that makes our cartel weak.

I love Andrea’s dynamic with her boss, Salgado (Alejandro Furth). Can you talk a little bit about that mentorship?

Luisa Rubino: Salgado is a man I really admire and look [up to]. At some point, Andrea really wants to be like him someday and to run such a huge newspaper, and to really do the job that he does. It’s huge to be the head, to be that important, and to be that brave.

That’s what I think Salgado sees in Andrea at first. She’s like, “Hey, I can do it!” At first, he was like, “No,” But then he was kind of figuring out what I really wanted, and that we were both going in the same direction. It was not a matter of age, because of course, I was younger. But he had the idea and vision that someday, yes, I can run his newspaper and that I can become him – but as a woman.

All episodes of Narcos: Mexico‘s final season will be available to stream November 5 on Netflix.

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Tatiana Hullender is a writer at Screen Rant, focusing on film and television, as well as a co-host of several podcasts. In the interviews she conducts for Screen Rant, she seeks to learn what drives each creative mind and how different experiences influence the same narrative. As a graduate of Columbia University in New York City, Tatiana studied theater and comparative literature. She has been passionate about all manner of storytelling since being exposed to Jane Austen and BBC adaptations of her work all at once. But Regency satire of manners isn’t the only genre she loves, as a love of comic books naturally developed into a love of cinematic universes and their superheroes. So long as a story has heart and humor, there’s a chance of finding something to enjoy in the telling of it.
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