KATE Del Castillo is the Mexican actress who brokered the deal between drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Hollywood star Sean Penn for an interview which caused the kingpin’s downfall.
The 43-year-old has played fictional drug trafficker roles on TV but found herself in a real life drama after she formed a connection with one of the world’s most wanted men.
She was instrumental in orchestrating the interview Sean Penn conducted for Rolling Stone magazine which Mexican authorities have credited with leading them to El Chapo.
The October 2015 meeting between Penn and El Chapo, which took place in a forest in the country was referred to by Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez as they planned the attack on his compound.
As far back as 2012, Del Castillo appealed to the drug lord urging him to use his empire for love, not violence, going as far as to say she trusted the criminal more than “governments that hide the truth”.
Writing on twitter she said: “Today I believe more in Chapo Guzman than in the governments that hide the truth from me.”
The tweet led to an unlikely friendship as she communicated on BlackBerry Messenger with the drug lord, trying to put together a biopic movie of the infamous leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The star’s most famous TV role is as drug boss Teresa Mendoza in the soap opera La Reina del Sur (Queen of the South) based on a book by Spanish author Arturo Perez Reverte.
In the show Del Castillo plays a woman who rises to be the post powerful drug trafficker in southern Spain.
The star is yet to comment on the arrest of El Chapo.
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