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Sean Penn

June 2024

  • ‘A time of tremendous overreach’ … Sean Penn.

    Sean Penn says ‘timid and artless policy toward the human imagination’ means he can no longer play gay roles

    In an interview the actor blamed cultural climate on casting issues as well as reflecting on his relationship with Madonna

September 2023

  • A still from Superpower

    Superpower review – Sean Penn’s Zelenskiy documentary lacks insight

  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Sean Penn in Kyiv in November 2022.

    ‘He was born for this moment’: Sean Penn on his film with Zelenskiy

  • Actor and director Sean Penn attends a summit in Ukraine on 6 September.

    Sean Penn: Will Smith slap wouldn’t have happened if Oscars had let Zelenskiy speak

  • Dakota Johnson in Daddio

    First look review
    Daddio review – Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn take a bumpy ride

August 2023

  • Sean Penn hands one of his Oscars to Volodymyr Zelenskiy and receives Ukraine’s Order of Merit of the III degree in Kyiv in 2022.

    First trailer for Sean Penn’s Ukraine documentary Superpower released

    ‘We are just ordinary people who want to live in our country,’ says President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in activist actor’s forthcoming documentary

May 2023

  • Sean Penn (left) and Tye Sheridan in Black Flies.

    Black Flies review – Sean Penn paramedic drama tries to grapple the horror

    Fresh-faced rookie Tye Sheridan is led through a world of medical grimness by a grizzled Penn in a tale full of lifeless cliche

March 2023

  • Emma Brockes

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    Emma Brockes
    Meanwhile Dawn French masters the art of a great show title, and are we all over-hydrated?

February 2023

  • Sean Penn at the photocell for his documentary Superpower at the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival, Berlin.

    Sean Penn says US has to accept ‘level of shame’ for not arming Ukraine faster

    Actor and filmmaker speaks out at premiere of his documentary about president Voldoymyr Zelenskiy

January 2023

  • Ben Stiller meet Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv, Ukraine

    How Zelenskiy became Hollywood’s man of the hour

    From Ben Stiller to Jessica Chastain, celebrities have embraced Ukraine’s president and offered support to the country’s war effort

December 2022

  • Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza

    Best films 2022
    Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 5 – Licorice Pizza

    Paul Thomas Anderson’s funniest film yet makes stars of newcomers Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim as unlikely lovers in 1970s LA

November 2022

  • Actor Timothy Hutton.

    Timothy Hutton on The Sex Party: ‘Do I think it will be controversial? I don’t know …’

  • Sean Penn with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv, Ukraine.

    Sean Penn loans his Oscar to Ukraine’s president Zelenskiy

September 2022

  • In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 20, 2022. Russia imposed personal sanctions Monday, Sept. 5, 2022 on 25 Americans, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, in response to U.S. sanctions against Russians stemming from the conflict in Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

    Ben Stiller and Sean Penn banned from Russia after Ukraine comments

    Hollywood actors included on Russia’s list of 25 new names excluded from country

May 2022

  • ‘Birds make music for the same reasons we do. They do it to communicate’ … Randall Poster in Gramercy Park, New York City.

    ‘Like them, we’re fragile’: how Randall Poster assembled his star-packed birdsong project

    The esteemed music supervisor enlisted stars such as Mark Ronson, Nick Cave, Beck, Sean Penn and Tilda Swinton for an ambitious new project

April 2022

  • Julia Roberts as Martha Mitchell in Gaslit

    TV review
    Gaslit review – a star-powered Watergate drama that grips and doesn’t let go

    Julia Roberts is fantastic as ‘mouth of the south’ Martha Mitchell in this prestige bit of TV – and she knows it
  • Sean Penn speaking at a press conference in Rzeszow, Poland, near the Ukrainian border last month.

    Sean Penn says Ukraine ‘is going to win this thing’

    Actor makes series of TV appearances to boost support in the US for Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the country’s effort to repel Russia
  • Sean Penn addresses a press conference in Rzeszow, Poland, after signing an agreement with authorities to help refugees from Ukraine.

    Sean Penn calls for billionaire to step up and buy aircraft for Ukraine

    Actor urges someone to spend $300m on ‘12 aircraft with better tech than Russian MiGs or SU’s’

March 2022

  • Sean Penn

    Sean Penn: I’ll smelt my Oscars if Academy doesn’t let Zelenskiy speak

  • Coca-Cola has so far not commented on the Ukraine war.

    Pressure grows on McDonald’s and Coca-Cola to suspend Russia operations

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