Sean Penn defends the Oscars and makes statements against it Biopic about young Donald Trump At the Marrakesh Film Festival.
The 64-year-old actor, who has won two Academy Awards, spoke during a press conference Tuesday and accused the Oscars of being “afraid” of accepting “The Apprentice,” starring President-elect Sebastian Stan, 78.
Penn said, “The academy has really shown extraordinary cowardice when it comes to being a part of the larger world of expression, and in fact, it has been a part of massively limiting the imagination and greatly limiting diverse cultural expressions.” Is.” Diversity,
The “Mystic River” star, who was casually chain-smoking during his speech, said the Oscars and other awards ceremonies should be viewed as “television shows first.”
“So I’m not very excited about what we would call the Academy Awards [except for] When a movie like ‘The Florida Project’ or ‘I’m Still Here’ or, you know, ‘Emilia Perez’ is likely to happen this year, he explained.
Penn then addressed the controversy over Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” which is not expected to be a major contender during awards season, despite Standing welcome for 8 minutes When it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
“When something comes out of the closet, it should be celebrated,” Penn said. “It’s surprising to see how scared it is [so-called] The Business of Mavericks is a great movie of that kind,” he added.
“Brilliant, well acted. [It’s amazing] They may be as scared as a little Republican congressman,” he said.
The Post has contacted the academy for comment.
“The Apprentice” focuses on Trump rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s and his relationship with attorney Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong) and his first wife, Ivana Trump (Maria Bakalova).
Trump has criticized the film and sent a cease and desist letter producers about a scene in which he is shown violently raping Ivana. Trump has denied the allegation of attack against him His late ex-wife.
Meanwhile, Stan, 42, claimed last month that his castmates refused to sit down with him to discuss the film for Variety’s annual “Actors on Actors” series. This was confirmed by Ramin Setoudeh, co-editor in chief of Variety.
“They were too afraid to talk about the movie, so I couldn’t,” Stan said during a November 19 screening of “The Apprentice.”
“And it doesn’t matter, it’s OK,” he added. “This is not to point the finger at anyone – I have a lot of great things to do.”
“We couldn’t reach out to publicists or people representing them because they were too afraid to talk about this movie,” the “Hawkeye” star explained. He added, “If talking about this really becomes a fear or an inconvenience, then we’re really going to have a problem.”
Briarcliff Entertainment purchased the rights to “The Apprentice” and released it in theaters on October 11. It made $12 million on a $16 million budget.
However, the film received mostly positive reviews from critics. it has one It has a critics score of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.
