Salma Hayek has had enough of the controversy over Sean Penn’s interview with drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán.
The Mexican-born actress spoke out at a press conference promoting her film “The Prophet” in Mexico City over the weekend, and explained why audiences should stop fixating on the interview between the actor and the kingpin.
“It creates a focus on a Hollywood melodrama that does not advance us on the steps that need to be taken to resolve the problems on either side,” Hayek said, according Spanish newspaper El País.
Hayek said she had not read the actor’s interview in Rolling Stone. Yet, she insisted that people’s fixation on it and on Mexican actress Kate del Castillo’s involvement in the secret meeting are not what the world should be focusing on.
“If Kate del Castillo did, if el Chapo did, if there was an interview, if there wasn’t an interview!” Hayek said after a journalist addressed the topic, reported the Spanish-language Associated Press. “It’s very different from the real problems happening in this country!”
And Penn agrees. The actor recently told “60 Minutes” he felt people missed the point of his interview with Guzmán.
"I have a regret that the entire discussion about this article ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the war on drugs,” Penn said in the interview that aired Sunday.
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