Stephen Colbert Auditions for El Chapo, Sean Penn’s Secret Meeting Topic, a Biopic [WATCH]

Following news that infamous drug lord El Chapo wanted to secretly meet with Sean Penn to discuss a biopic, Late Show host Stephen Colbert thought it best to cash in on what's bound to be an interesting tale. Therefore, he decided to up and audition for the El Chapo biopic, specifically the role of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman himself.

The CBS host kicked off his El Chapo segment discussing the nature of the drug kingpin's recent arrest, which occurred this past Friday. Calling him the man "who built the world's most lucrative drug empire after Pfizer," Colbert noted that El Chapo's arrest was shocking on two fields: 1) He had been on the run for the six months and no one knew where he was, and 2) Authorities couldn't find El Chapo, but Sean Penn did.

"For months, the unpredictable El Chapo had been on the run hiding for months," Colbert said, adding, "and to find him, it took yet another unpredictable man who looks like he's been hiding in a jungle: Sean Penn."

 The first photo from this week’s capture of #SinaloaCartel boss #ElChapo, was released today. Then we released the first interview #ElChapo has ever granted outside an interrogation room, conducted by our correspondent #SeanPenn. "In what would be a seven-hour sit-down, I saw him without that smile only in brief flashes. As has been said of many notorious men, he has an indisputable charisma. When I ask about his dynamic with the Mexican government, he pauses. 'Talking about politicians, I keep my opinion to myself. They go do their thing and I do mine.’” Photograph Courtesy of Sean Penn

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The very nature of Penn's interview with El Chapo, Colbert claims, was that of a meeting about a movie. He says, "Guzman agreed to a meeting because he wanted...to make a movie about his lucrative life of drug-dealing..."

And since Danny DeVito (and "a large black caterpillar") is off shooting It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Colbert put together an audition tape.

This one:

So, folks, who should play El Chapo in the upcoming, and not at all confirmed, biopic?