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Actress : I only wanted to document Mexican drug lord’s life
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Ac- In this Aug. 15, 2014 file photo, actress Kate Del Castillo speaks during a news conference in City “Why me?” the actress re-
tress Kate del Castillo says Council chambers in Los Angeles. called asking.
in an article published “Because he admires you,
Sunday that she only met Associated Press respects you, and fully trusts
secretly with Joaquin “El you,” she said one of the
Chapo” Guzman for a proj- document the life of a man ter a nearly six-month man- capo’s attorneys contact- lawyers told her.
ect to document his life in a named enemy number hunt following his escape ed her via email in 2014 Del Castillo told of the trip
movie, and denied sugges- one by the most powerful last July from a maximum and later met with her. The she made Oct. 2 with Penn
tions she had received any nation in the world,” she security prison through a lawyers said that “El Cha- and two producers to meet
money from the drug lord. wrote. tunnel built under his cell. po” wanted to give her the with Guzman. One of the
Del Castillo wrote of the Guzman, known as the It was his second such es- rights to tell his story in a capo’s sons met the group
meeting in a first-person ar- leader of the Sinaloa cartel, cape from a penitentiary. movie, one that she would at a hotel and then took
ticle published in the Mexi- was captured on Jan. 8 af- The actress wrote that the also appear in. them on a journey by land,
can weekly newsmagazine air, and land again.
Proceso. She explained Mexican authorities have
how she was contacted said they were investigat-
by the capo’s attorneys, ing whether Guzman gave
the discussions leading up money to Del Castillo’s te-
to the encounter and ulti- quila company. Officials
mately her October 2015 here have also sought to
meeting with Guzman and interrogate the actress, al-
American actor Sean Penn though they have said they
in a remote area of north- consider her a witness not a
eastern Mexico. suspect.
The Proceso article comes In a second article pub-
just two days after The New lished in Process on Sunday,
Yorker magazine published Del Castillo denied that the
part of an interview with capo had given money to
the actress. It was the first her to make the movie, or
she had given to any medi- to her company.
um about the meeting with “I have never received
the drug lord. money from Mr. Guzman,”
“What I wanted to do was she said.q
