Sean Penn says his article on Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman “failed” in its mission.
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Sean Penn being interviewed by Charlie Rose.
To be sure, the drug lord sounds quite formal and polite during his interview with Penn, in spite of the deadly behaviors that he or his associates have exhibited in the past.
HO/AFP/Getty Images A prominent critic slammed Penn’s fawning interview with the Mexican drug lord.
In messages that preceded the October 2 meeting in which Del Castillo and Penn traveled to Guzman’s mountain hide-out, the actress tells Guzman that she will bring her tequila to share with him. “My article has failed in that everything that’s spoken about is everything but what I was trying to speak about”, he explained on Sunday’s all-new 60 Minutes. “He has great curiosity and is attracted to controversial figures”, Inarritu, who won the best director Oscar for his dark comedy “Birdman” in 2015, told daily Spanish newspaper El Pais.
In one tweet, the billionaire businessman said Guzman, 57, and Mexican cartels treated the American/Mexico border “like it was a vacuum cleaner, sucking drugs and death right into the US”.
But Penn called the arrangement no big deal, saying that he couldn’t have gotten the interview any other way and that if Guzmán had spiked it, “then that was no harm, no foul to any reader”.
According to Quartz, the media reacted to the article and have focused on how Sean Penn managed to come in contact with El Chapo, who was a fugitive from Mexican police at that time. “It has been an incredible hypocrisy and an incredible lesson in just how much they don’t know and how disserved we are”, Penn said.
“He has every right to look for El Chapo”.
When asked by Rose if he believes that his life is in danger, Penn responded simply, “no”.
In a 60 Minutes news interview, which aired in America on Sunday, Penn claimed the Mexican authorities were embarrassed by the fact an actress had access to Guzman and they didn’t. Journalists who want to say that I’m not a journalist. He said officials were trying to put him in the crosshairs of the feared cartel.
“Let me be clear”.
Penn: I say I can’t make him worse than me if I’m not out there doing everything that I can to get a conversation going on the way in which we prosecute that war.
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Asked to comment on the official version of Guzman’s escape – fleeing through a tunnel, Uriegas said answering the question would spoil an important part of the film.
