Fans are horrified by Hollywood star Sean Penn's appearance during bombshell interview

Daily Mail​

14-05-2025

Sean Penn's fans were shocked by the actor's 'rough' appearance on the Louis Theroux Podcast on Monday.
During the interview, the star, 64, made several explosive claims, notably expressing doubt about director Woody Allen's alleged 1992 molestation of his daughter Dylan Farrow.
However, it was his weathered look and a bright red bruise on his nose that had fans talking in the comments.
Penn appeared tired, with noticeable bags under his eyes, and sported disheveled grey hair and a beard.
'He looks rough,' one person wrote underneath a clip from the interview shared on X, while another surprised commentator asked: 'He's only 64?!?'
'I'm his age. My 95 year old father looks younger than him,' someone else added.
A fourth added: 'Dang he aged like a worn leather handbag,' while another commented: 'He looks okay for a man in his 80s.'
During the interview, Penn made a number of eyebrow raising statements, including his support of Allen.
It's been 26 years since Penn worked with Allen on his film Sweet And Lowdown, and he would 'do it again in a heartbeat' despite the disgraced director's 2019 #MeToo reckoning.
'If it was the right [project],' the humanitarian cautioned on the podcast.
Penn previously portrayed guitarist Emmet Ray opposite Samantha Morton's mute Hattie in the 89-year-old filmmaker's 1930s-set comedy, which earned them both Academy Award nominations.
Now and then: Sean was a far cry from his usual chiseled good looks, seen right in 2011
Penn does not believe Mia Farrow 's 1992 allegation that her ex-partner Woody (born Allan Konigsberg) molested her seven-year-old adopted daughter Dylan.
The two-time Oscar winner scoffed: 'I am not aware of any clinical psychologist or psychiatrist or anyone I've ever heard talk or spoken to around the subject of pedophilia that in 80 years of life, there's accusations of it happening only once.
'And when people try to associate what were his, let's say, much younger girlfriends, right or wrong is not the conversation here, but post-puberty, consensual stuff is to me a different conversation.
'So, I just think that whatever is the worst of people's suspicions about him, just check him with the facts separate from the moment and the movement and all. Who benefited from that. Let's just take a second. That's all I'm saying. I see he's not proven guilty, so I take him as innocent, and I would work with him in a heartbeat.'
Farrow publicly accused Allen of the crime seven months after discovering his secret affair with her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn.
The four-time Oscar winner - who was never charged or prosecuted and has vehemently denied the allegation - quickly sued Mia for full custody of their son Satchel (now Ronan) and her adopted children Dylan and Moses.
In his 33-page decision in 1993, Justice Elliott Wilk rejected Woody's bid for full custody of all three of their children and called his behavior toward Dylan 'grossly inappropriate' while also rejecting the sexual abuse allegations.
In 1997, Allen married Soon-Yi and they adopted two daughters - now 26-year-old Bechet Allen and 25-year-old Manzie Tio Allen.
And while 39-year-old Dylan stands by the allegations, her 47-year-old brother Moses publicly denied she was ever abused and alleged Mia had abused him in a 2018 WordPress post.
Mia has denied that allegation.
'With these things, I don't know anyone well enough to say, "100 percent, this didn't happen, that didn't happen,"' Sean noted.
'The stories are mostly told by people that I wouldn't trust with a dime. It just seems so heavily weighted in that way.'
Woody's last American movie - A Rainy Day in New York - coincided with the #MeToo movement in 2019 and cast members Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Hall, and Griffin Newman donated their salaries to support sexual assault organizations.