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Laying down the law. After returning from the Cannes premiere of his upcoming film Flag Day, Sean Penn will not be heading back to work until strict vaccination efforts are enforced in Hollywood.

Sean Penn is making his stance clear when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Sean Penn has set an ultimatum on the set of the upcoming Starz Watergate series "Gaslit": either the entire cast and crew receive COVID-19 vaccines, or he’s not returning to work.

bumming around with Robert De Niro in 1984 to presiding over the jury.But his last visit was rocky. Penn's film, 2016’s “The Last Face,” flopped with critics in way that would make some filmmakers gun shy about returning.Penn, though, didn’t hesitate.

Sean Penn, 60, had two special companions by his side at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, July 10. Sean’s daughter Dylan Penn, 30, and son Hopper Penn, 27, both of whom he shares with ex-wife Robin Wright, joined the Oscar-winning actor on the red carpet for the premiere of his new drama film Flag Day.

Sean Penn found directing himself "burdonsome". The 60-year-old actor has stepped behind the camera for 'Flag Day' and also stars in the film alongside his real-life children, Dylan and Hopper Penn, but he's admitted having two jobs to do on one project isn't something he's keen to repeat.

Sean Penn poses with his daughter, Dylan Penn, at the photo call for Flag Day during the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on Sunday (July 11) in Cannes, France.

Just a few days on the heels of “Stillwater,” another American entry in the Cannes Film Festival main competition section explores the complicated relationship between a father and daughter rooted in down-home Americana and close brushes with the law. “Flag Day” marks Sean Penn’s latest directorial return to Cannes since the critically-lambasted “The Last Face” from 2016.

(Corrects first paragraph to say Sunday, not Saturday)CANNES, France (Reuters) -Sean Penn said on Sunday he nearly passed up the chance to act opposite his daughter Dylan for the first time in "Flag Day", his latest movie which is vying for awards at the Cannes Film Festival - until actor Matt Damon egged him on.

Sean Penn’s “Flag Day” PremieresSean Penn’s “Flag Day” premiered at the festival on Saturday, marking the third time he’s been in Main Competition section as a director — the other times for “The Pledge” in 2001 and “The Last Face” in 2016.TheWrap’s Steve Pond wrote, “While the film sometimes struggles with disparate tones, it’s a solid, subtle drama that opts in most cases for restraint over excess.

Sean Penn is promoting his new film at the Cannes Film Festival, and used the opportunity to take a shot at the Trump administration’s botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Donald Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic at Cannes today (July 11).Speaking at the press conference for his latest directorial feature, Flag Dag, Penn said watching Trump’s “obscene administration” handle the crisis “really felt like someone with a machine gun gunning down people from a turret in the White House” (per The Hollywood Reporter).The actor added that he felt there was “no effort or integrity from the government until the Trump administration was

During a press conference for his Cannes Competition film Flag Day, actor-director Sean Penn took aim at former president Donald Trump after being questioned about own humanitarian efforts during the ongoing pandemic — on his own dime, and under the banner of his Core (Community Organized Relief Effort) project, Penn has been responsible for bringing much-needed testing and vaccinations to deprived areas in major U.S. cities.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterIn the midst of debuting a new movie at the first pandemic-era Cannes Film Festival, director Sean Penn had strong words about the Trump administration’s handling of the global health crisis.The longtime artist and activist — who donned a mask when not speaking at a Sunday press conference — discussed the past year he’s devoted to COVID-19 testing and vaccinations in underserved communities.“We were — not only as a country, but as a world – let down and openly

bumming around with Robert De Niro in 1984 to presiding over the jury.But his last visit was rocky. Penn's film, 2016’s “The Last Face,” flopped with critics in way that would make some filmmakers gun shy about returning.Penn, though, didn’t hesitate.

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Sean Penn made the screening at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday a family affair. The actor posed on the red carpet with both his 30-year-old daughter, Dylan, and his 27-year-old son, Hopper.Penn, 60, both directed and stars in, and his real-life kids appear in the film as his character's children.

Dir: Sean Penn; Starring: Dylan Penn, Sean Penn, Katheryn Winnick, Josh Brolin, Dale Dickey, Jadyn Rylee, Eddie Marsan. Cert tbc, 108 mins. Is Sean Penn’s new film a fond tribute from a father to his daughter, or just the Hollywood version of Take Your Child to Work Day? The intentions are as flatteringly fuzzy as the glowing 1970s-style camerawork in this adaptation of the American journalist Jennifer Vogel’s memoir Flim-Flam Man, about her strained relationship with her father John, an

Sean Penn looked like he was about to cry at the Saturday night premiere of “Flag Day.”The drama earned a four-minute standing ovation broken up by remarks from Penn, praising his daughter, Dylan Frances Penn, for her debut lead role in a movie.Penn takes on double duties in the film, as both director and actor, playing John Vogel, a real life bank robber and con artist.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticAs a filmmaker, Sean Penn has always had a flinty integrity, but the movies he directs work so hard to channel the values of ’70s films — they’re moody and fatalistic, with furrowed brows, and move at a pace of drop-dead deliberation — that early on, in the days of “The Indian Runner” (1991) and “The Crossing Guard” (1995), you could just about feel the sweat of his downbeat virtue.