This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL GROUP: (Singing in Spanish).ĭEL BARCO: In this third season, "La Reina Del Sur" is out for justice.Ĭopyright © 2022 NPR. Also, we are talking about human trafficking, the corruption between different governments, not only in Mexico and Latin America, but also the United States. Now it's a political thriller, an action series. It's just, like, I think we're fed up with that. And the themes have evolved, too.ĭEL CASTILLO: We're staying away from narco traffic. Del Castillo says the series' production values are incredible. For me, it was three, four, five years of hell.ĭEL BARCO: Del Castillo tells her side of the story in a three-part Netflix docuseries, "The Day I Met El Chapo." She told NPR she's now able to travel to Mexico again, which is how she was able to shoot the third season of "La Reina Del Sur" in five Latin American countries. And then I was a victim of all this thing that happened. She was unable to return to Mexico for years.ĭEL CASTILLO: Visiting El Chapo was my own decision.
And Mexican authorities investigated del Castillo. She was accompanied by actor Sean Penn, who ended up interviewing the fugitive for a Rolling Stone cover story.
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Plus, he was in jail, so why not?ĭEL BARCO: El Chapo then escaped prison through a series of underground tunnels, so del Castillo met up with him in hiding. I'm struggling still here in Hollywood to get the big opportunity. He asked to meet up with her, offering her the rights to his life story.ĭEL CASTILLO: So you know, I'm a storyteller. No, reality does go beyond fiction, you know? It's crazy.ĭEL BARCO: In 2012, she tweeted that she believed more in El Chapo than the Mexican government. And it sort of became the starting point for all these huge, super production, super series that are basically narco-driven.ĭEL BARCO: Del Castillo once met with Mexico's most notorious real-life drug lord, Joaquin Guzman - El Chapo.ĭEL CASTILLO: Oh, my God. VERONICA VILLAFANE: It was just a huge success. Journalist Veronica Villafane is publisher of Media Moves, a website covering Latinos in the media industry.
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1 TV show in its timeslot, more highly rated than anything else on TV in English or Spanish. Then she becomes the best drug lord, you know (laughter), in a world where men rule.ĭEL BARCO: The second season, in which Mendoza rescued her daughter, was shot 11 years after the popular first season ended. His death in the first season created an opening for her in the Mexican narco world.ĭEL CASTILLO: She had no options. She's a survivor.ĭEL BARCO: Del Castillo says Teresa Mendoza is street smart, but she fell in love with the wrong guy.
She's done so many wrong and so many bad things, but not because she wanted it, because she had to in order to survive. And Mendoza becomes a fugitive.ĭEL CASTILLO: (As Teresa, speaking Spanish). KATE DEL CASTILLO: (As Teresa, speaking Spanish).ĭEL BARCO: One thousand, four hundred ninety-three days in solitary confinement, she tells the man who's come to see her behind bars. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "LA REINA DEL SUR") prison, locked up for the murder of three DEA agents. As the third season opens, she's in a U.S. MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: The character Teresa Mendoza has been through a lot, and so has the actress who plays her, Kate del Castillo. "La Reina del Sur" stars Kate del Castillo as the queen pin of a drug empire who's now on the run. The new season of a hit Spanish-language TV series co-produced by Netflix and Telemundo premieres this week.
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