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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSean Penn just lit up a smoke on Colbert.
Might have been fine back in the 70s with Carson, but this is 2018 and it seems very old fashion and rude.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Plus he's a big surfer and I'm sure he's too cool to use sun screen. He's super fit though. I'll give him that.
cbreezen
(694 posts)RainCaster
(10,914 posts)I didn't want him in my living room. He's mental.
retread
(3,763 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Who cares about pot?
VOX
(22,976 posts)I hope it's just garden-variety stage-fright. He did light up a second cigarette, so he's either "on the chain," or it was the one thing he could do to soothe his nerves a bit.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)Don't give up your day job, Mr. Penn.
VOX
(22,976 posts)And from the excerpts I've read, the critics are on target. I credit him as being a damn fine actor who's turned some offbeat and interesting performances over the decades.
But Penn has always taken himself way too seriously. He can't roll with the punches (especially when he's doing the punching). He seems permanently tense and internally wound-up, like his adrenaline is really pumping. He now strikes me as a guy who's just a couple of self-imposed stressors away from a breakdown or heart attack.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)It sounds like he's not enjoying that anymore either. Sad guy. Too bad.
VOX
(22,976 posts)I agree, he's acted superbly in numerous films for 35 years, give or take, and has been awarded and lauded by his peers, in spite of all the anti-social behaviors he'd displayed over the years.
Whatever's eating him, I hope he can find some peace. It won't be had with his book, which is taking a merciless pounding in the media. But I think he anticipated that happening, and perhaps he even wanted that reaction. It's simultaneously self-indulgent and self-destructive.
beaglelover
(3,489 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)They all smoked on the space ship! And they had a cat on board. Imagine the fine particles that got into the circuitry!
Neil deGrasse Tyson is 2 years older than Sean Penn - and he looks 20 years younger.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)It was made way back in the late 70s which might explain it, except even back then I remember thinking that it was odd there were still so many cigarettes.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)(It sounds kind of weird to me)
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)He reached down to retrieve an ashtray he had on stand by.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Something tells me that Colbert won't be inviting him back any time soon.
IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Who the hell does crap like that in 2018? At least where I live it just isnt The Done Thing.
llmart
(15,552 posts)He talked about how he would like to give up smoking.
My cousin used to live a block away from him. My cousin was a bit "quirky" shall we say and she even said he was a weirdo!