Kate del Castillo refuses to “praise drug dealers”

Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, who joins the organized-crime series “The Cleaner” (Fox) this Tuesday as a strong woman leading a double life, rejects that this type of character involves “glorifying in any way a drug dealer.” .

Del Castillo, who played the warrior Teresa Mendoza In the popular soap opera ‘La Reina del Sur’, she arrives in the third season of the Fox series as Ramona Sánchez, a seemingly famous woman, art collector and activist, but who “has no heart” and does “horrible” things. he says in an interview for EFE.

In thinking about public interest Due to the series about drug trafficking, which are always among the most watched, the interpreter explains that it is a topic “that we cannot avoid and that affects everyone, all young people, all adults”, and that “we cannot go out of fashion, unfortunately.

But he emphasizes that the approach and scenario are keys to work “it is still attractive at the moment” and adds that “when there is a good story, whatever it is, there will always be a good audience”, which is why he rejects the idea that these series glamorize crime in any way. real organized.

Let’s take as an example ‘Queen of the South’, according to the novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte: “It’s fiction, but nothing more. She became an icon for everything that happens in her life, which she didn’t want, and she became the best, so now it doesn’t matter anymore “what she dedicates herself to, it matters character.”

“I don’t want to be Teresa Mendoza, I don’t want to be Ramona Sánchez. You’re hiding all the time, leading a double life, looking over your shoulder so you don’t get killed. With Teresa, everything she touches or loves dies. So, for me, it is not in any way praising drug dealers”, he emphasizes.

Projects from the past and on the horizon

The topic is no stranger to him after the controversy surrounding the meeting with drug trafficker Joaquín ‘el Chapo’ Guzmán in 2015. which led to an investigation by the Mexican authorities and a great deal of surveillance, and for which he is still wanted despite numerous interviews and a documentary shown.

“It doesn’t bother me in the least, it’s something that’s part of my life,” he comments lightly, taking responsibility for the “decision” to then meet the convicted capo in prison in the United States, admitting that he knew he would change his whole life. and be “forever” connected to her.

With a fruitful career in film and television, Del Castillo (51) points out that complex and dark roles sometimes find her and to look for them another time, but remembers playing “much more vulnerable characters”, providing voices in animated films and acting, among other things, in the theater.

As for this last art, which he compares to drugs, he fondly remembers his presentation in New York, on a track parallel to Broadway, of ‘The way she spoke’, in 2019, a work that condemned the murders of women in Juárez and assures that loved to return to the theater.

“In order to be completely happy as an actress, I need a little bit of everything, and the only thing I miss is the theater. I can stop doing television, movies… but the theater is necessary, once you try it, you can” don’t give up”, she says, complaining that it requires a lot of time.

“And thank God, I’m very busy,” adds the Mexicanwho recently announced that her production company will adapt Pérez-Reverte’s novel ‘Revolución’ into a series, and that she will participate as a voice actor in the upcoming children’s animated film ‘Dora and Fantastic Beasts’.