'Narcos' star Wagner Moura: Not interested in having Hollywood-kind of career

He may have achieved global recognition with his starring role of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in Netflix series Narcos, but actor Wagner Moura on Tuesday said he doesn't have Hollywood dreams.  

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Brazilian actor, who received international fame with roles in Elite Squ films and Elysium, said Hollywood has given him great opportunities, but his aim is to make films about empathy. 

"Hollywood is big. It's a great working opportunity but I am t interested in having a Hollywood-kind of career," Moura said during a session, titled Magnificent Artist, at ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI). 

actor, whose directorial debut Marighella is competing in debut category at 50th edition of movie gala, ded, "My first film is very political. My goal is to produce and make movies about Latin people that don't have stereos." 

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Moura said his Portuguese-langu film talks about current political situation in Brazil and he felt it was important to tell this story.  

"re is dictatorship and torture... film's release in Brazil was cancelled so it is nice to travel to many film festivals. Marighella is about this revolutionary Carlos Marighella who was a congressman, a left winger. With situation, only way y have is to take guns and to struggle." 

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actor-director said, in 2013, when y started working on film, idea was to bring back name of Marighella.  

"But n film became about people who are even resisting w, t only about those people who resisted n," he ded.  

43-year-old star said he enjoyed directing process, ding acting is a more "complicated" art.  

"Directing is easy. Acting is way more complicated. It's about making people get toger. My actors were so good in film that I was thinking I am t that good. y are on a completely different level." 

Moura was accompanied by Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers at session.  

IFFI 2019 concludes on vember 28. 

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