MEXICO CITY — Transcripts of over a month of text messages between drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Mexican actress Kate del Castillo showed the capo was less interested in making a movie about his life than he was in flirting with the actress.
The transcripts published Wednesday by the newspaper Milenio — and confirmed as authentic by a federal official — showed that Guzman’s main concern was getting face-to-face get-togethers with Del Castillo, and that he didn’t even really know who Sean Penn was.
“What’s that actor’s name?” the account identified as Guzman’s writes in one message. He later asks his lawyers to tell him what movies Penn has appeared in.
“I’ll tell you, I am more excited about you than the (movie) script,” Guzman wrote to Del Castillo, to whom he had identified in his chat or text account as “ermoza,” a misspelling of the Spanish word for “beautiful.” “I’ll take care of you,” he adds.
The Associated Press
