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Sean Penn Says He Could Not Play Harvey Milk Role Now Due To “Timid & Artless Policy Toward The Human Imagination”
Sean Penn is giving his take on straight actors playing roles of gay men, saying in a recent interview that he would not play Harvey Milk today.
Penn portrayed the openly gay politician in 2008’s Milk and earned his second Oscar for the film. After starring in the film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, Penn went on to star in films like Fair Game(2010), The Tree of Life(2011), This Must Be the Place(2011), Gangster Squad(2013), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(2013), The Gunman(2015), The Professor and the Madman(2019), Licorice Pizza(2021), and many more. However, it was not until he received the script for the Christ Hall film produced by Dakota Johnson, Daddio, that he found that spark again.
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