During a press conference for his Cannes Competition film Flag Day, actor-director Sean Penn took aim at former president Donald Trump after being questioned about own humanitarian efforts during t…
after being questioned about own humanitarian efforts during the ongoing pandemic — on his own dime, and under the banner of his Core project, Penn has been responsible for bringing much-needed testing and vaccinations to deprived areas in major U.S. cities.
“I don’t think that I can illuminate anything that shouldn’t be plain to the eye,” Penn said calmly. “We were — not only as a country, but as a world — let down and ultimately neglected, misinformed, had truth and reason assaulted under what was, in all terms, an obscene administration, humanly and politically.
Although the role seems a natural fit for Penn, he claimed that he had originally only intended to direct. “It was not on the cards initially,” he said, “in part, because I had adopted a sort of religion of clarity that I never wanted to do a second job when I had a first job of directing — to act and direct was not appealing to me. In this case, over time, with a lot of nudging from producers, there came a point of necessity to make a decision about who was going to play this part.
Penn also talked about Alejandro González Iñárritu having been briefly considered to direct prior to his own involvement. “I think of Alejandro as [being] as good a filmmaker as we have in the world today,” Penn said. And so of course the answer is, if I want to work with anybody, [I’d] put him on top of that list. But it wasn’t even certain, by that time if I was going to do it, as I remember. It was just to see if he wanted to look at directing it.
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