Sean Penn, 64, Sparks Concern After Recent Appearance
Actor Sean Penn was a guest on the May 12 episode of the Louis Theroux Podcast and a video clip from the show was shared on X.
"Sean Penn in the house! Or rather, me in Sean Penn's house! The Hollywood acting legend and adventurer invited me up to his Malibu hideaway to talk Trump, Zelenskyy, Jack Nicholson, Madonna, punching photographers, jail time, smoking, and much more. It was a big thrill to do, only our second LTP 'field interview' and our first in America," Theroux captioned a post on May 13.
Social media users were quick to notice that Penn had a cut on his nose and his hair — all white — was somewhat disheveled.
"Dude seriously looks not well. Life has been rough on him and he seems miserable," one person wrote.
"He looks rough," someone else said.
"Gandalf is going through some hard times right now," a third comment read.
"How long do I have to watch before you ask him how he hurt his nose?" a fourth X user asked.
Penn didn't address his apparent face injury, but he did discuss the accusations that Woody Allen molested daughter Dylan Farrow when she was 7.
"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," he said on the podcast.
"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," he continued.
"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," he added.
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