When the world’s most wanted man was captured last week many looked at his meeting with Sean Penn as the turning point. Sure we know that helped, but Guzman’s biggest folly may have been how smitten he was with Mexican actress Kate del Castillo.

Transcripts of the text messages between the two show that El Chapo was more interested in getting into Kate’s pants than he was about discussing a potential movie about his life. TIME with that and how he wasn’t all that clued up on Mr. Penn:

…Guzman’s main concern was getting face-to-face get-togethers with Del Castillo, and he didn’t even really know who Sean Penn was…

“What’s that actor’s name?” the account identified as Guzman’s writes in one message. He later asks his lawyers to tell him what movies Penn has appeared in. Even when Guzman dedicated a video statement as an “exclusive for” Del Castillo and Penn, the drug lord stumbles over Penn’s first name, pronouncing it “SAY-ahn”…

“I’ll tell you, I am more excited about you than the (movie) script,” Guzman wrote to Del Castillo. He identified her in his chat or text account as “ermoza,” a misspelling of the Spanish word for “beautiful.” ”I’ll take care of you,” he adds.

Another text from the drug lord reads: “How is the best and most intelligent woman in the world, who I admire a lot?” At one point, Guzman — who is reportedly married to former beauty queen Emma Coronel, and has had children with her and several other women — writes “My mother wants to meet you. I told her about you.”

“I want you with all my heart,” he wrote.

A few pics of Del Castillo:

Not that Kate was running for the hills when he came on strong as her replies show:

Del Castillo responds in kind. “Apart from our (movie) project, I am very excited about seeing you eye to eye, in person,” she wrote, adding later “we will embrace each other soon!”

In the wake of some public criticism she tweeted this out:

More on how little El Chapo knew about Penn from NBC:

Penn is described by the attorney for his work in the 2003 movie “21 Grams,” made by acclaimed Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, and being known for his political activism.

Guzmán texts his attorney that he is looking up Penn on the Internet.

So does his pursuit of Del Castillo come as a real shocker? How about this…

“What’s new about this? That Guzman has a weakness for women? He has 18 children, he’s married to a woman 30 years younger than him,” said Alejandro Hope, a security analyst in Mexico City. “What’s new about that?”

Once a player, always a player it seems.

[sources:time,nbc]