Sean Penn: "Human rights come before cinema"

By Silvia Bizio (La Repubblica)

Sean Penn is increasingly abandoning his career as an actor and director to devote himself to his role as a social and humanitarian activist. Since the first day of the pandemic, the two-Oscar winner (for Mystic River in 2003 and Harvey Milk in 2008), who will celebrate his 60th birthday on August 17, has been particularly active within his CORE foundation (Community Organized Relief Effort). ), founded in 2010 to help Haiti recover from the earthquake.

Currently, this non-profit emergency aid organization is doing everything it can to offer Covid tests to as many people as possible, especially in New York and Los Angeles. CORE has opened various screening sites there, mainly in churches and parishes. Although due to his humanitarian work, he has been more low-key in the movies in recent years, Sean Penn recently directed and starred in the movie Flag Day , in which he plays his daughter Dylan Penn.

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