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128: Part 2: Boyd Holbrook and the Making of Narcos

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Game of Crimes

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4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

A true honor to interview the man behind Murph in the Netflix hit series Narcos. Boyd opened up about what it took to play the role, the DEA training he and Pedro Pascal received to prepare them, shooting on location in Colombia for nine months, and more. Murph even learned something he didn’t know about how Boyd prepared for the role of a lifetime. Plus, we discuss acting in general and what’s happening with the (now-resolved) actor strike.

Boyd just finished working with Harrison Ford in Dial of Destiny and is currently working on a film with Samuel L. Jackson. You won’t believe what he’s doing to prepare for this role.

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0:29.0

So between movies and TV shows like you say series was the Hatfield of McCoy's was that a series for you which one was like your first series you did that was yeah that was a series that was based off of a feud that happened in basically my county, Pike County, I'm Cribb and Floyd County, but Pike County and then was the McCoy's and the Hatfields were on the West Virginia side.

0:36.2

And I knew that that was going to happen and I got involved in that and you know believe or not that that was shot in Romania for four months because of

0:52.4

Romania it's you know again credibly cool and

0:56.4

gorgeous country but you know in the Carpathian mountains they were doubling

1:01.3

for the Appalachian Mountains.

1:03.2

You know, there are a hundred years, you know, behind, which is incredible.

1:08.8

You know, there's people in horse and cart.

1:10.2

I don't know what it is like now but you know we shot there because there's no

1:13.7

telephone poles and there's no nothing. So that was the draw and obviously is

1:19.9

probably much cheaper to shoot there. But again that you know thrown into the

1:25.3

deep end and you know sink or swim. And there's another crossover with Boyd

1:30.7

and I that that some of our listeners have heard before but and boy

1:36.1

and I've talked about I'm Morgan and I have but my family is related to the

1:40.4

Hatfields and the McCoy's so my my great-grandfather on my dad's

1:44.1

thing.

1:45.1

That family tree looks like a stick.

1:47.2

There's no branch on this tree.

1:50.8

My great-grandfathers, John C.

1:52.2

Have you one branch. My great-grandfathers, John C. Haffield, my great-grandmother is Lucinda McCoy, or some people call

1:56.0

her Sarah. And those are the two that married that ended up, you know, stopping the feud. And so we always joked around that, you know, Boyd played

2:04.6

my great uncle, Cap Hatfield, Hatfields and McCoy,

2:07.4

he played me and Narko, so who the hell are you gonna play

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