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Despite being a man renowned for tough, intense performances sprinkled with hair-tingling humility, it’s worth remembering that Sean Justin Penn’s Tinseltown calling card was a brief role in TV Western, Little House On The Prairie. Track forward four decades and he’s part of the Hollywood elite, a champion of great causes, with two Oscars to his name and an award-winning director in his own right. Suffice to say, he more than deserves to be recognised as one of the best actors of his generation.
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“In all my years of doing this, nothing has been as crazy and as exciting as what I went through this weekend,” begins David Broome, a veteran television producer who has been on the receiving end of an intense campaign by Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn to derail his new Netflix documentary, The Day I Met El Chapo.
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Natascha McElhone is set to star opposite Sean Penn in The First, House of Cards creator Beau Willimon’s straight-to-series drama, slated to premiere on Hulu and U.K.’s Channel 4 in 2018.
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The multi-front legal battle between Voltage Pictures and seemingly everyone else over the Mel Gibson and Sean Penn starrer The Professor and The Madman saw a federal judge stop the efforts of the film's director to stop the pic from going forward.
