They would drive across the border and go to Beverly Hills to shop and party and they were driving BMWs, so nobody ever thought to stop them.” “These were kids who came from well-respected families, who were lured in by the lifestyle, and became a very violent aspect of the Arellano organization. “We’re talking about rich private-school kids who would hang out with the Arellanos in nightclubs and they were sort of drawn into their circle,” Bernard says. All the cast and crew really liked working with him.”Įxploring real-life killers like Kitty also allowed Narcos: Mexico to unpack how cartels south of the border morphed, mutated and expanded in the 1990s. “He was terrific and had a really great time. “It felt like a fun way for Bad Bunny to lean into his charisma,” Bernard shares. The end result is Bad Bunny playing a posh club hopper with a penchant for violence, just as the real Kitty was some three decades ago.

We had to try to find a way to figure out his schedule, and he was great about trying to shift things around so he could spend as much time with us as possible.” That’s when I realized we should definitely be doing this. “And I knew it was a big deal because my assistant was so excited. “When we were writing the season, I was told that Bad Bunny wanted to be on the show,” Bernard reveals.

Narcos: Mexico Season 3 will also track the rise of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and his Sinaloa Cartel, with fictional journalist Andrea Nunez (Luisa Rubino) serving as the show’s new narrator. Kitty was part of a group known as the Narco Juniors - middle and upper class Tijuana teenagers who hung out with members of the Arellano-Felix cartel for the fame and glamour. One of the ways Bernard and company did this was adding rapper Bad Bunny (aka Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio), who will costar as well-heeled hitman Arturo “Kitty” Paez.

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