SEAN PENN’S interview with drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman caused a cross-border uproar, with Mexican authorities seeking to question him while U.S. critics lashed out at the American actor.

    A federal official said that the attorney general’s office wanted to talk with Penn and Mexican actress Kate del Castillo about their secretive meeting with Guzman in October, three months before his capture.

    A second federal official said it was unclear whether Penn and del Castillo, who brokered the meeting, had violated any Mexican law.

    While a reporter could interview a drug cartel suspect, “they’re not journalists,” the official said.

    White House chief of staff Denis McDonough told CNN that Penn’s meeting with Guzman “poses a lot of interesting questions for him and others involved in this so-called interview. We’ll see what happens.”

    The U.S. rock magazine Rolling Stone on Saturday published the interview that Guzman gave to the actors.(SD-Agencies)