#Kate del castillo y el hijo del chapo movie#
#Kate del castillo y el hijo del chapo series#

The meeting ultimately went down in 2015 - in the company of actor Sean Penn, who wrote about it in a rambling 10,500-word piece for Rolling Stone. Like the rest of the viewing planet, Guzmán was also hooked on “La Reina del Sur.”

#Kate del castillo y el hijo del chapo movie#

It began with Del Castillo’s infamous late-night tweet storm from 2012 that was directed in part to Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera - tweets that led the capo’s lawyers to reach out to the actress to arrange a meeting about a movie deal. “She was so committed.”Ĭertainly, the intervening years for Del Castillo have played out like one of the convoluted plots in “La Reina del Sur.” “What we encountered was another actress of incredible skill,” he says. If Teresa Mendoza is now more mature, so is the actress who plays her, notes Santana. “It’s a more mature Teresa,” says Del Castillo of her character, whose drive now is the maternal urge to rescue her child. (Not entirely unusual for the actress, who keeps a Ducati Monster at home.) Moreover, Del Castillo, who is fiercely committed to authenticity, did her own stunts - including a motorcycle sequence in the first episode that has her chasing the baddies around a Tuscan town at life-threatening speeds. (The production traveled to eight countries, including Italy, Spain, Belize, Colombia and Mexico.) If the premiere episode is evidence of what is to come, Telemundo is kicking it up several notches with a visibly better wardrobe budget, plenty of action and oodles of location shooting.

To be certain, the second season is no simple reboot. It is in this pastoral setting that her past catches up with her, and her enemies in Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel kidnap her child.ĪLSO: In the Netflix docu-series ‘The Day I Met El Chapo,’ Kate del Castillo tells her story » The new season finds her living under an assumed identity with her daughter in the Italian countryside. The story picks up eight years after the original concluded - an ending that left Teresa Mendoza pregnant and alone in an undisclosed location. “We also had to reunite writers from the original team. “It took three years to convince Arturo Pérez-Reverte to do this,” says Marcos Santana, president of Telemundo Global Studios, which produced the show in conjunction with Netflix.

#Kate del castillo y el hijo del chapo series#

I think that’s one of the reasons that I made her so mine.”Īlso on the list of skeptics was Arturo Pérez-Reverte, the Spanish novelist who wrote the best-selling book upon which the series is based and who would have to approve any new project. And when people on the series would get hurt or died because of her, I would suffer with her. “I was going through a very bad moment with my second marriage,” she recalls of shooting the first season. I’ve been paying lawyers in the United States and Mexico for so many years.” I am going to enter my country being proud of being a Mexican,’ and that’s what I did,” she said. “It wouldn’t have happened if I came in with my American passport. She had a tense 25-minutes or so when her passage was held up by authorities, but she was eventually cleared to enter the country. Although del Castillo has dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship, she defiantly insisted on showing her Mexican passport as she crossed the border. “I spent Christmas with my parents which was the most emotional time,” she said. He was succeeded in November by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which del Castillo took as an opening to visit her parents over the holidays. For me it was kind of tough to pay all the lawyers in America and in Mexico without a job.”ĭel Castillo said she was warned by her legal counsel not to return to Mexico while President Enrique Pena Nieto was in power. “I didn’t work for a long time because of my little thing,” she said. And when the “La Reina del Sur” production headed to Mexico for filming, she had to stay in Colombia while her scenes were handled through CG and a stunt double. Her inability to travel to Mexico cost her work, she asserted.Īt the time of the El Chapo visit, she was about to start work on the Netflix series “Ingobernable,” in which she played the first lady of Mexico. In 2017 she produced a Netflix documentary recounting her version of how her visit with Penn unfolded, “The Day I Met El Chapo.”ĭel Castillo said she was afraid to return to Mexico for about three years out of fear of being arrested because of her connection to Guzman, who is seen by some as a Robin Hood-esque character who aided the poor in rural Mexico through the profits of his criminal enterprise. “They didn’t call me to testify - I’m happy about that,” del Castillo said about the trial.