| When he wasn’t running one of the most feared, violent drug cartels in history, the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera enjoyed watching TV. In the early twenty-tens, Guzmán—best known as El Chapo—became enamored with the actress Kate del Castillo, who was starring in a telenovela about a Mexican woman whose romantic life entangles her in the narcotics trade. So when del Castillo tweeted admiringly about El Chapo one night, encouraging him to “traffic with love,” he reached out. In 2016, the New Yorker contributor Robert Draper wrote about the unlikely period that followed. Del Castillo, pursuing El Chapo’s wish to make a movie about his life, had forged a relationship with the Oscar winner Sean Penn, who accompanied the actress on an arduous journey to meet the drug lord, then in hiding after escaping from prison. (Soon after, he was recaptured.) Penn subsequently published a widely derided account of the experience in Rolling Stone, and Mexico’s Attorney General announced that del Castillo was under criminal investigation. When Draper spoke with the actress, in a gated community in Los Angeles, she was avoiding potential arrest in her home country, and the filming of her next series, on Netflix, had been upended. Del Castillo’s own mother expressed exasperation at her daughter, remarking, “Everything she does is that way—without thinking about the consequences.” | 
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