ANGRY: Shooter and director Sean Penn at the Cannes Film Festival July 11, 2021. Photo: JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP
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Actress and director Sean Penn comes with strong criticism for the way the former US president handled the pandemic.
– We were – not only as a country, but also as a value – failed and obviously neglected, and misinformed, said Sean Penn (60) in a press conference at Cannes in connection with the film «Flag Day».
– There had been an attack on the truth and reason of what in all circumstances was an immoral administration, he added.
But the Oscar-winning star code player did not go there.
He also referred to Trump’s corona handling as opening fire on vulnerable groups in society.
– When my “team” and I came home at night from testing and vaccination, we came back to crazy news – it felt like someone shot down the most vulnerable in our society from a tower in the White House, he continues.
—-RAUD RUNNING: Sean Penn and daughter Dylan Penn play together in the movie «Flag Day». Here pictured at the Cannes Film Festival 2021. Photo: Doug Peters
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Tributes to Biden
The United States was hit hard by the pandemic. In February it was registered over 500,000 deaths linked to the corona pandemic.
– Today we mark a really gloomy and heartbreaking milestone, said US President Joe Biden at the time.
In the last 14 days, the wart has registered 228. 529 cases of infection.
Penn, who was wearing a face mask during the press conference, said he was optimistic about the future under the new administration.
– In the transition from Trump to Joe Biden, it felt like the sun was rising. It was not until the Trump administration was replaced that a real effort was made.
Follow The Guardian Penn has long been open about his contempt for Trump.
Earlier this year, he described, among other things, the former president as “a man guilty of large-scale murder”.
—-CAUTION: Sean Penn wears a bandage at a press conference during the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Foto: KATE GREEN / POOL / GETTY IMAGES POOL
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Contributes to testing and vaccination
Penn is the founder of the non-profit organization Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), which conducts fundraising and relief work in cities that need immediate help.
CORE recently contributed resources to speed up the testing and vaccination process in New York and India.
Sean Penn made his breakthrough in the film “Dead Man Walking” in 1995. Since then, he has starred in a number of films, and received several Oscar nominations.
He is currently working on the film “Flag Day”, which he has both directed and starred in.
The film is about a former swindler who has a difficult relationship with his children. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
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