Kate del Castillo – Actress Who Set Up The Sean Penn – El Chapo Interview

The Mexican actress who Sean Penn says arranged his interview with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman while he was on the lam was the “ticket to El Chapo’s trust,” he wrote in his Rolling Stone article about interviewing the drug kingpin.

In writing for Rolling Stone, Penn described how Guzman opened Kate del Castillo’s door and greeted her “like a daughter returning from college.” He wrote that after Guzman was arrested in Feb. 2014, “he was interested in seeing the story of his life told on film, but would entrust its telling only to Kate.”

“The same lawyer again tracked her down, this time through the Mexican equivalent of the Screen Actors Guild, and the imprisoned drug lord and the actress began to correspond in handwritten letters and BBM messages,” Penn wrote.