Kate del Castillo did not talk to the Queen of the Pacific to prep for her role
According to Sandra Avila, Kate del Castillo told a national newspaper that to prepare her character, she had a meeting with the real Queen of the Pacific. Except she did not.
Sandra Avila, better known as the Queen of the Pacific in the world of drug trafficking, denied that she and Kate del Castillo knew each other. According to Sandra Avila, the actress told a national newspaper that to prepare her character, she had a meeting with the real Queen of the Pacific.
However, Avila assured that she has never met her, nor does she play a role that closely resembles her personality. During an interview with Gusgri, the Queen of the Pacific assured that she never spoke with Kate del Castillo because in her interpretation she is very aggressive and in reality she is calm.
"It seemed to me that Kate del Castillo has done very well, I feel that if she is Teresa Mendoza, she plays her character very well. On one occasion she stated that she had talked to me to play the role, but she never talked to me", commented the Queen of the Pacific.
She also indicated that narco series or narconovelas find their inspiration mainly in the myths that exist around the world of the gangs dedicated to drug trafficking.
"It has been the same as what the media puts out, a little bit of someone they know and talk about, and data is compiled. To make it attractive, they have to put action and some fantasy stuff," said Sandra Avila.
Kate del Castillo's confessions about "El Chapo" Guzman
On January 12, 2016, the life of Mexican actress Kate del Castillo would change radically. What seemed to be an opening of doors to many opportunities, turned out to be a nightmare thanks to an interview that Sean Penn published in Rolling Stones magazine.
The protagonist of "The Queen of the South" and American actor Sean Penn went to one of the hideouts of one of the most powerful and most wanted drug traffickers in the world: Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. They had dinner and met with him to learn a little more about his life, about which they were supposed to make a movie.
After that meeting, Del Castillo suffered persecution from the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) and experienced the whirlwind of information generated in the media about that interview. Today, almost at the beginning of 2020, many details have yet to come to light about this controversial meeting between the actors and "El Chapo". That's why here are Kate's most controversial confessions about the drug trafficker serving a life sentence in the United States.
The five minutes alone with "El Chapo"
After that dinner, Guzmán Loera and the actress had five minutes alone. When that moment came out, there was a lot of speculation in the media about what happened in that short time, but in an interview with Aquí y Ahora, a section of Univisión Noticias. In July 2016, journalist Jorge Ramos asked him about this event that caused so much controversy. "Maybe not in the context in which I wanted to. It fascinates them that if I had slept with Mr. Guzmán or not, I think it's very interesting for everyone," he said, but he confessed: No, of course not. I wouldn't have thought of it there.
"What happened in those five minutes was that my whole life went through my mind," Kate admitted. This terror she experienced grew exponentially when the drug dealer touched her arm, but the fear ended seconds later".
"It was two seconds when my pressure dropped, my soul, but the way he touched my arm I knew he wasn't going to do anything to me and that I was in good hands," said the interpreter. "I am a woman and women know how men touch us. He could have grabbed me by the waist, he could have grabbed me even by the back. He was very gentlemanly with his hand, perhaps not to scare me, as he did with the weapons I didn't see," she said.
Years later, in 2019, the actress commented in an interview with the newspaper Milenio that she felt grateful to "El Chapo. "First, I would thank him for not touching me, for scaring me. To be grateful that I am alive," she said.
The answer to Emma Coronel, wife of Joaquín Guzmán
Del Castillo has commented on several occasions that the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel granted her the rights to the content of the interview she conducted with Sean Penn are hers. In fact, in a video, the drug trafficker posted a video, which circulated on social networks, saying that it is exclusive content "for Miss Kate del Castillo".
The 43-year-old Mexican has also said that Guzmán Loera gave her the rights to his image so that she could make content with his life. In fact, at some point, she reacted to Emma Coronel, the narco's wife. The couple explained in a chat with Telemundo that "they will have to contact me because everything that has to do with Joaquín's life has to do with me".
Given this, in an interview with her sister Veronica, presented on the program Suelta la Sopa, Kate pointed out that "while Mr. ("El Chapo") is alive, I have absolutely nothing, because he can change his opinion tomorrow or the day after".
The persecution by Enrique Peña Nieto
Kate del Castillo was a key player in the Attorney General's Office (PGR) recapturing Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán on January 8, 2016, in the Mochis, Sinaloa. However, the actress was unable to set foot in Mexico for almost three years due to the investigation opened against her.
Although Enrique Peña Nieto's administration investigated her for possible money laundering, no charges were filed against her. Therefore, in the interview with Univision, Jorge Ramos insinuated that her persecution could be for fear that she would say something inconvenient for the PRI government, to which she responded:
I don't know why that terrible hunt was for me. I've asked myself everything, why the attack so strong. I don't know, maybe that's one of them.
All these actions against her caused the actress to suffer financially to pay for the lawyers. "I'm broke. I have been paying lawyers in the United States and Mexico for several years," the Mexican star confessed to the Los Angeles Times.
Upon her return to Mexico, when the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador began, Kate initiated legal proceedings against the previous administration and the PGR, now the Attorney General's Office. She sued for the damages left by the investigation. She also requested an amount of $60 million, since she argued that she had stopped winning contracts, in addition to the smear she and her family suffered.
