The following is a transcript of an interview with Sean Penn, 'Superpower' co-director, that aired on 'Face the Nation' on Sept. 17, 2023.
The following is a transcript of an interview with Sean Penn,"Superpower" co-director, that aired on"Face the Nation" on Sept. 17, 2023.
SEAN PENN: This is- this film started as a sort of light hearted tale of a comedic actor who had become president. A lot of attention had come Ukraine's way, his way after a controversial phone call with our former president. And-and there seemed to be this, you know, generating interest. And by sort of a quirk of fate, a friend of mine had run into someone who had connection to Zelenskyy.
SEAN PENN: It is my absolute feeling that the caution with which the United States has pledged support, which seemed, in my reading of-of the February 2022 was a, like a lean on in the fear of nuclear conflict, something I think all of us should look very carefully at and understand that, of course, is possible. And that's to be concerning. The likelihood is extremely low.
SEAN PENN: I was pushing it when I was with Juice and he was alive. He dreamt of flying F-16s. His mother, I just saw last week, and she described him as not a military man. It's true. And I think if you see that in the movie, I mean, if one considers the cookie cutter idea of a military man, I think that he was a man who was born into a time where he had to do this extreme thing, and he did it with poise, and, and skill and focus, and compassion.
SEAN PENN: I think there's two parts to it. Right? You have the part of that that has nothing to do with what we know of as Republicanism or policy, that there's the- this populist gap issue that's become identity politics and so on. And- and thee kind of extreme the extreme- there are extremes on both sides, of course, but this extreme on the right. I don't think it's concerns itself with information.
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