“It's not like Pablo Escobar, for example, where everyone knows even more than what this series has told you because there are documentaries, books — this man played it under the radar for a long time. We know a lot from when they got him and when he went to jail. But the early years, you have to read books, you have to find it in journalistic investigation and stuff like that. It's not something popular that we all know. He’s a guy that understood the power of being discreet in that system. Everyone knows what he created, what his organization meant, what he tried to change in the way things were happening, and how much he took advantage of the moment where the Colombians had to find another way to get the cocaine into the States. Suddenly Mexico was needed, and he was there to capitalize on that. That we know. But the specifics, we don't, so that's why I had so much freedom in portraying the role and making the choices.