Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures Inc./The Associated PressWhen he read the script, he saw his daughter’s face. That’s what made Sean Penn want to direct his latest film,, and what kept him invested in the project for almost 15 years. It’s why he convinced his daughter, Dylan Penn, now 30, to play the main character, Jennifer Vogel. And it’s why, when the actor he hired to play John Vogel, Jennifer’s father, dropped out a month before they went to camera, Sean stepped in.
Hard as it was, Sean had to watch his daughter go to dark places. A kitchen fight between Dylan and the Canadian actress who plays Jennifer’s mother – Katheryn Winnick, who holds black belts in tae kwon do and karate – caused very real bruises. “My running joke is that I felt like calling Child Protective Services on myself a few times,” Sean said wryly. But both father and daughter agreed that on set, they were director and actress, period.
Casting himself as the co-lead “liberated me from having to negotiate the normal ego politics of two actors,” Sean said. “I could make sure Jennifer was the focus of the daily work.” They often used two cameras to capture their natural reactions and overlapping dialogue.
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