Actor Sean Penn's interview with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán -- an encounter believed to have led to the Mexican drug lord's capture -- was the talk of the night on Jan. 10 at the Golden Globe awards ceremony in Beverly Hills, California.

Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who took home a Best Director Globe statuette for his work on the biographical Western film "The Revenant," admitted he had not yet read Penn's Rolling Stone article about his meeting with Guzmán but was still fascinated by the story.

"I woke up today to the news," González told Variety. "I haven't read the interview. I want to read the interview. It was very long."

His fellow countryman, Gael García Bernal -- whom the Hollywood Foreign Press Association crowned in the Best Performance in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy category -- meanwhile, preferred to keep mum on the issue.

"It's so recent," he said, "and me as a Mexican, it's hard to talk about this subject because it's a subject that's very important to me and there are dead people involved. I haven't read it."

Penn's feat of arranging an interview with the then-fugitive drug lord, meanwhile, even made it into the monologue delivered by ceremony host Ricky Gervais, who mentioned the actor-turned-activist within 10 seconds of the night's telecast, the Los Angeles Times noted.

"I want to do this monologue and then go into hiding," Gervais said. "Not even Sean Penn will find me."

Actor Oscar Isaac, who won a Golden Globe in the Best Performance in a Miniseries or Television Film for his work on "Show Me a Hero," complemented Penn on his "get."

"I think it's a fascinating thing that he got to do that," Isaac said.

"He got to get some very incredible details of the story on this man. (Guzmán) doesn't sound like a very nice guy. But just as a study of a human, (the piece) is fascinating."

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