Sean Penn might be 61-years-old now but he’s not mad about getting older at all. With the world being, um, stuck in a bit of a rut recently, the Hollywood legend admitted that he was happy to grow old.
‘I’m a little frustrated with the world,” Penn said in an interview with the Toronto Sun. “I’m glad I’m old and won’t be having to deal with where this stuff is going.”
The reason for Penn’s dourness wasn’t coronavirus or climate change, however, but rather cancel culture. “We give too much of a shit about what we are going to be accused of by people who want to be self-righteous because they can get a quick reward,” he continued.
“And they’re self-righteous hypocritically — they damn this, but don’t worry about why kids are being bombed in Yemen, because it’s not getting them into a club right away.”
Penn has long been one of Hollywood’s most outspoken political figures. He was a vocal critic of president George W. Bush and the War on Terror. After winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Milk, he used his acceptance speech to advocate for same-sex marriage.
More recently, Penn refused to resume filming the TV series Gaslit until every cast and crew member was vaccinated against COVID-19. He also spoke publicly about the #MeToo movement, calling it “salacious” and insisting that it “divides men and women.”
Penn’s latest film, Flag Day, saw the actor star opposite his own daughter Dylan. Based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2004 memoir Flim-Flam Man: A True Family History, it deals with Jennifer coming to terms with her cone artist father’s dodgy past, which included the fourth-largest seizure of counterfeit bills in U.S. history, totalling almost $20 million.
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