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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 • • 48m ListenJavier 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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