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Sean Penn laments his interview with El Chapo 'failed'
Source: USA Today
Sean Penn laments his interview with El Chapo 'failed'
Maria Puente, USA TODAY 5 p.m. EST January 15, 2016
Sometime-journalist Sean Penn has discovered something most scribes learn early: Sometimes your story doesn't come out as planned — sometimes it's a failure.
So the Oscar-winning movie star has concluded about his much-discussed, bombshell article in Rolling Stone last weekend about his secret interview in a Mexican jungle last October with murderous and then-fugitive drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
Penn is set to tell 60 Minutes on Sunday night (8 pm ET) that his aim in this risky escapade was not just to discuss a potential bio-pic with El Chapo (Shorty), but to expose the futility of the American war on drugs, which he strongly decried in the 11,000-word article.
CBS This Morning previewed excerpts Friday morning as did 60 Minutes on its website.
Penn sought to shed new light on the effect of the government's "puritanical and prosecutorial culture" on drug policy, and hoped to start a conversation about whether that policy should be changed, he told Charlie Rose, in an interview that took place Thursday night in Los Angeles.
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Maria Puente, USA TODAY 5 p.m. EST January 15, 2016
Sometime-journalist Sean Penn has discovered something most scribes learn early: Sometimes your story doesn't come out as planned — sometimes it's a failure.
So the Oscar-winning movie star has concluded about his much-discussed, bombshell article in Rolling Stone last weekend about his secret interview in a Mexican jungle last October with murderous and then-fugitive drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
Penn is set to tell 60 Minutes on Sunday night (8 pm ET) that his aim in this risky escapade was not just to discuss a potential bio-pic with El Chapo (Shorty), but to expose the futility of the American war on drugs, which he strongly decried in the 11,000-word article.
CBS This Morning previewed excerpts Friday morning as did 60 Minutes on its website.
Penn sought to shed new light on the effect of the government's "puritanical and prosecutorial culture" on drug policy, and hoped to start a conversation about whether that policy should be changed, he told Charlie Rose, in an interview that took place Thursday night in Los Angeles.
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Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/01/15/sean-penn-laments-his-interview-el-chapo-failed/78847666/