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Sean Penn was pictured once again puffing on a cigarette as he spoke on stage at the 2024 Marrakech International Film Festival on Wednesday.
The actor, 64, is currently in Morocco for the Film Festival which is screening four of his films as part of a career tribute.
The film director could be seen quickly lighting up a cigarette on stage as he spoke alongside festival director Nashen Moodley.
He donned a smart casual ensemble for the occasion wearing a black blazer and a plain white T-shirt.
He teamed the smart blazer with a pair of dark grey trousers and sported a pair of chunky white trainers.
The Marrakech International Film Festival honoured Sean with a tribute event that included a screening of Gus Van Sant’s drama film Milk.
Sean Penn was pictured once again puffing on a cigarette as he spoke on stage at the 2024 Marrakech International Film Festival on Wednesday
The actor, 64, is currently in Morocco for the Film Festival which is screening four of his films as part of a career tribute
Since its historic launch in September 2001, the Marrakech International Film Festival has brought together some of the biggest names in world cinema, confirming Morocco as a prime destination for major foreign productions.
And the festival last month opened with The Order — a thriller starring Jude Law that chronicles an FBI manhunt for the leader of a white supremacist group.
Sean’s appearance on stage comes after he slammed the Oscars while throwing his weight behind Trump’s biopic The Apprentice in a surprising rant at a press conference in Marrakech on Tuesday.
Sean, who was chain-smoking American Spirit cigarettes during his tirade, singled out Ali Abbasi’s controversial Donald Trump film starring Sebastian Stan for being left out of awards season.
‘The Academy have exercised really extraordinary cowardice when it comes to being part of the bigger world of expression,’ he said Tuesday during a Marrakech Film Festival press conference.
‘And in fact, [they] have largely been part of limiting the imagination and very limiting of different cultural expressions.’
Sean- who has won two Academy Awards himself – continued: ‘So I don’t I get very excited about what we’ll call the Academy Awards [except for] when a film like The Florida Project, or I’m Still Here, or, you know, Emilia Pérez, of the things that are likely to happen this year.’
While Oscar nominations are yet to be announced, The Apprentice has not been predicted to fare well.
The film director could be seen quickly lighting up a cigarette on stage
He donned a smart casual ensemble for the occasion wearing a black blazer and a plain white T-shirt as he spoke alongside festival director Nashen Moodley
He teamed the smart blazer with a pair of dark grey trousers and sported a pair of chunky white trainers
The Marrakech International Film Festival last month honoured Sean with a tribute event that included a screening of Gus Van Sant’s drama film Milk
Sean’s appearance on stage comes after he slammed the Oscars while throwing his weight behind Trump’s biopic The Apprentice in a surprising rant at a press conference in Marrakech
Lead actor Stan, 42, has revealed how he has been shunned by his fellow actors who didn’t want to be associated with the film – claiming they were ‘afraid’ to talk about it.
Netflix reportedly rejected the $12.1M-grossing drama due to their ‘millions of MAGA subscribers’ and the newly re-elected 78-year-old president blasted it as a ‘cheap, defamatory, and politically-disgusting hatchet job.’
The Apprentice is said to include scenes depicting Trump violently raping his first wife, Ivana, abusing amphetamines to lose weight, and undergoing liposuction/plastic surgery to remove a bald spot.
‘When something sneaks through, it’s to be celebrated,’ Penn noted.
‘It’s jaw-dropping how afraid this [so-called] business of mavericks is of a great film like that. One with great, great acting. [It’s amazing] that they too can be as afraid as a piddly little Republican congressman.’
The thrice-divorced Malibu native has won two Academy Awards for his leading performances in Clint Eastwood’s 2004 crime thriller Mystic River and Gus Van Sant’s 2009 Harvey Milk biopic Milk.
