Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Javier Bardem’s transformation into Pablo Escobar

Javier Bardem played the real-life quadriplegic activist Ramon Sampedro in “The Sea Inside,” and psycho-killer Anton Chigurh in “No Country For Old Men.” Now he portrays notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in “Loving Pablo.”

By Madeleine Brand • Oct 4, 2018 • 48m Listen

Javier Bardem played the real-life quadriplegic activist Ramon Sampedro in “The Sea Inside,” and psycho-killer Anton Chigurh in “No Country For Old Men.” Now he portrays notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in “Loving Pablo.”

Javier Bardem as Pablo Escobar in the new movie "Loving Pablo." Courtesy of Universal Home Entertainment Content Group .

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Javier Bardem’s transformation into Pablo Escobar

Javier Bardem played the real-life quadriplegic activist Ramon Sampedro in “The Sea Inside,” and psycho-killer Anton Chigurh in “No Country For Old Men.” Now he portrays notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in “Loving Pablo.”

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Javier Bardem’s transformation into Pablo Escobar

Javier Bardem played the real-life quadriplegic activist Ramon Sampedro in “The Sea Inside,” and psycho-killer Anton Chigurh in “No Country For Old Men.” Now he portrays notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in “Loving Pablo.”

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