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Michael Stahl-David knows a thing or two on the monster hunt. The 34-year-old actor has blown into the popular consciousness with a fight against star towers (in progress: running) anything - le-heck - this terrifying thing - was in 2008Cloverfield. This fall, he is back and pursues a different type of monster to the third season ofNarcos. He describes Chris Feistl, based on a real life agent, which corresponds to firearms fights and battles with the notorious cali cartel that assumed the next power KingpinPablo EscobarDemise Inglorouse.

Stahl-David includes both sides of the law. As a secondary student in Chicago, he grew up the Wrigley Field blocks - he spent his free time as a graffiti artist, winning a reputation as a qualified tagger while winning "A long stop disc. "Following too many lines with the cops, he decided to focus on the actor, landing a role in the short-term NBC Sitcom,Black databasesbefore his separation as street Smart Rob Hawkins in theJ. J. Abrams-Product masterpiece of monster at low fiduciary.

This fall, Stahl-David will vault on another level of renown. In addition toNarcos,he presents asBobby Kennedy contraryWoody Harrelson.Lyndon baines johnson inRob Reiner.Lbj. And Stahl-David Stars in 2017 SXSW Public award-winning PriorityThe light of the moon. Just handle his schedule to become a monster of a task. We chatted with him on the filming in Colombia, his favorite story Woody Harrelson, and why he left his life in the form of a tagyer in the mirror.

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Did you talk to the agent you described about his life?

Before you start shooting, I went down in Arizona and spent a few days with him. He told me through the story of how everything really fell. I asked about a million questions about the particular competence to follow people. That's really what work is. Before starting to work on the Cali cartel, he spent more than a year following some of the guys who removed some DEA agents. The monitoring element is laborious and takes a long time. You are hombed sitting on an address, not knowing if it will bring you anywhere. There is a toughness that is intense.

The Cali cartel had eyes and ears everywhere: in the military, taxi drivers, police, anyone. Dea agents took pain to never be at the same place twice and always take relaxing routes. They were really alone there. There was no base of Dea to Cali. When they started, they only had permission to stay the day. After a while, they could stay at night, but they had to stay at the military base. Finally, they broke all the rules to follow tracks and follow guys. But it was precarious. They did not have real backup. It was crazy enough. The guy was like my age, about 34 years old. He is wild to think.

Has he done that you want to be a DEA agent?

[Laughs] Yeah, I was like, "why do not you be a real man? Get makeup putting and telling lines that someone else wrote."

Have you prepared for the hearing?

Honestly, not much for the first. I did a game at the time. The hearing ribbon had to be quickly, so I did it on a 10 minute break in my dressing room. One of the scenes was in Spanish and lucky luck was that I went to a growing bilingual school in Chicago. So it was quite easy to do. When I arrived at the next level, I had a phone call with the Showrunner,Eric Newman. They wanted another band. I took a little longer with that one. I wanted to make sure that the tension felt good, and there was some type of masculinity. My character is not a New York intellectual.

And a sweet mustache maybe? Although I guess they did that in the first two seasons.

My partner in the show isMate Whelan, who plays Daniel Van Ness. Van Ness is based on a real due, Dave Mitchell. In real life, Mitchell wore a fanny pack. This is where he kept his weapon. In Colombia, they wore cargo shorts, Hard Rock café shirts, baseball caps and tube socks. They looked like absolute dorks. In the show, we are dressed Jolis Dorky but not quite wrong. We do not have vintage mustache / cigarette / hipster atmosphere type. We are not as cool, but I liked that. In the new opening for season three, there is a photo of two standing agents with a building in the background. These are the real agents and they look like a tourist photo. But the building behind them is the one they watched and it was their way of having a photo.

You spent six months of filming in Colombia. What was the reaction like?Narcosdoes not exactly present a great moment in the history of the country.

It is a controversial show in Colombia, in the sense that most people want to go and talk about something else. They had also simply made their own version of the Escobar history, a Telenovela. But there are also people who are fans of the series, and they are happy to see that the level of the value of production is shot there. It's something I was sensitive to: what is the image we portray? You can not circumvent the fact that it is a story about narcofickers in Colombia.

The good thing is because it is filmed here, you can see the landscape, the beauty of the country, and the energy of it. In Cali, which is the capital of Latin American salsa, you get to feel the flavor and rhythm. In each interview, it is an opportunity to talk about how much the country has changed. 2016 was an incredible year to be there. He was the Lonely Planet number a place to travel. They went through a historical peace process that got past this year. There are all these young entrepreneurs who start businesses in cities like Bogota. Tourism will explode here because it is affordable and people are super nice. They want to show you what their Colombia is really. I almost do not want to tell people because I want to keep coming back.

You are alsoLbj With Woody Harrelson. Do you have a favorite story of working with him?

Working with him is exactly like what you think the dream of working with Woody Harrelson would be. I was surprised how much he wanted to hang out. Not one-one, but he had to organize football matches every weekend. He had played barefoot, and he invites us all towards the house he praised. His wife would do vegan food. He is very competitive. We were playing Keep Away in the pool, just me, he and his 11 year old daughter. He was not messy of keeping away. He was there to win, talk about shit and laugh. I was in the middle, and he screams with his daughter to throw her ball. He has this childish thing that is part of his charm. It is very real.

How is happeningNarcos to play Bobby Kennedy?

He was a little scary Bobby Kennedy game because he's like, "Well, I could fuck that. I had false teeth and color contacts. But he is Rob Reiner, who said these stories of the old school, and he is the most director of fluffy. Then there is Woody, be just a hard to cook. He has a monologue towards the end of the film. Before starting the shoot, he hack, reorganizing the sentences a little. Then he made a grip and I just perfect.

I have to ask questions about graffiti. You are still doing at all?

Nope. I am quite often arrested. My Karma is fucked for life at that moment, so I thought I should stop. I leave basically when I was 19 years after going to prison in San Francisco for a handful of days. I realized that I could make my life fuck for real, so I should stop tagging my name on shit like an idiot. There was a huge amount of adrenaline in marking. There was an artistic component, but it was also to run through the metro tunnels, climbing on the roofs, getting your name in a place where people were like, "how did the F * Ck come there? I think the adrenaline got replaced by the adrenaline to act. You are in a situation where you have to enter a room and prove to a group of people you can be someone else.

I come this year to start draw again. Now, I make small illustrations and portraits. He has been fun to think of some of these skills did not go to lose. If I draw something really dope, maybe one of these days, I'm going to stick on something. I could make graffiti in the backgroundCloverfield. They made a street scene and convince them to let me make some letters. You have to pause in a very specific moment to see it, but I remember doing it and being excited about it.

It's a good inheritance.

He is there, baby.

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