El Chapo Biopic to Go Ahead Despite Mexican Government Warning Ben Child - The Guardian
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Kate del Castillo said she believes the project ‘is already kind of tainted’ but will continue. (Reed Saxon/AP)

The actor and producer Kate del Castillo has said she plans to go ahead with a proposed biopic about the drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán despite having been warned against it by the Mexican government.

Del Castillo had previously told reporters she received a message in January on behalf of Mexico’s interior secretary, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, telling her to halt plans for a film. In a new interview with CNN en Espanol she described the message as “kind of intimidating” in remarks translated by the Hollywood Reporter. On Friday Del Castillo told ABC said she still wanted to continue with the project, “more than before”.

Del Castillo, who played a cartel boss in the Spanish-language TV series La Reina del Sur, arranged the meeting between the actor Sean Penn and El Chapo in January that made headlines after it led to the capture of Mexico’s most wanted man. The actor said neither Penn nor the two Hollywood producers who attended the meeting with El Chapo and have links to Hollywood director Oliver Stone would now be involved in her project.

“I think that all this is already kind of tainted,” she said. “I just have my reasons … because I was left out and I don’t want anything to hurt my new project.”

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