McNairy’s currently unnamed character was introduced at the very end of Narcos: Mexico Season 1.
Season 2 has begun production in Mexico City, with new episodes expected to launch sometime in 2019.
Diego Luna (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) will be reprising his role as cartel boss Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo in Season 2 of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico, with Scoot McNairy (True Detective) confirmed by Entertainment Weekly to be co-starring in the follow-up season.
He plays a DEA agent who intends to escalate the drug war south of the border.