Academy Award winner Sean Penn and his lawyer are concerned about the new Netflix documentary series “The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate del Castillo Story” that premiered on Friday, October 20. Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., Mr. Penn’s lawyer, wrote a letter to the streaming service warning them that it’s “hereby on notice that blood will be on their hands if this film causes bodily harm.”
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The documentary series is about the scandalous meeting that Kate del Castillo, a Mexican actress, and Sean Penn had with drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo, back in October 2015, when the now captured drug lord was the most wanted man in the world.
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The 57-year-old actor wrote a letter describing his meeting with El Chapo to Rolling Stone magazine and was published only a day after Loera was once more captured by the authorities.
In Boutrous Jr. letter to Netflix that was sent last week, he warns the streaming service company that the series could potentially risk the life of his client and demanded that the company made changes to the documentary, which has already aired. Mr. Penn had no participation in the production of the series and it’s basely centered around Kate’s account of the events.
Sin palabras.Gracias @NetflixLAT @netflix por darme un espacio para poder decir mi verdad. #thedayimetelchapo #CuandoConociAlChapo
— kate del castillo (@katedelcastillo) October 20, 2017
Mr. Penn claims that in the documentary is implied that he was working with the Department of Justice to capture El Chapo. “It is reprehensible that, in their ongoing, relentless efforts to gain additional attention and publicity, Ms. del Castillo and her team (who have zero firsthand knowledge) have sought to create this profoundly false, foolish, and reckless narrative,” Mark Fabiani, a spokesman for Mr. Penn, said in an email to the New York Times. “The notion that Mr. Penn or anyone on his behalf alerted D.O.J. to the trip is a complete fabrication and baldfaced lie. It never happened, nor would there have been any reason for it to have happened.”
Everyone told their story, this is mine. #TheDayIMetElChapo #CuandoConociAlChapo @Netflix… https://t.co/WWBBYTVgZq
— kate del castillo (@katedelcastillo) October 20, 2017
Producer David Broome, however, says that “We never say in this documentary that Sean Penn is in cahoots with the D.O.J.” and Netflix also released a statement about the actor’s accusations, “Penn was given the opportunity on multiple occasions to participate in ‘The Day I Met El Chapo’ and did not do so. The events surrounding the now-infamous meeting have been well covered, including by Penn himself in Rolling Stone and his many public comments since. The only new ground we’re breaking with this series is to give Kate a chance to finally tell her side of this stranger-than-fiction story.”
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