Sean Penn has passionately defended portraying a gay man in the acclaimed 2008 movie Milk, amid suggestions that he would never have landed the role today.The 63-year-old screen star was awarded his second Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of late politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California back in the 1970s.
And I find it culturally offensive and venal and sad that that's the easy solution for people to have groupthink on and all those defenses.''I'll just pick one movie out of the air when it comes to, you know, more Black actors working,' Penn went on. 'Thank God the fight is in them when you see something like Straight Outta Compton. Great movie, great performances.
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