In Rolling Stone (February 19, 2009), Sean Penn is interviewed at length about...well, everything! We're treated to storytelling about some of his most famous movies, what it was like working with Eastwood and Allen, the death of brother Chris, how he felt about the Tropic Thunder "full retard" thing ("All fantastic.")...the only thing missing is lengthy commentary on his ex-wife.
With big bro Michael, his dad and as a hot amateur boxer in 1976.
On what Harvey Milk might have done had he lived longer:
"The only significant speculation I make is if you look at the timing, what an incredibly powerful voice he would have been when the plague hit, which was a year after. You had an entire administration that never said the word 'AIDS.' He would have pushed that issue, and there would be people alive today that aren't. That seems a pretty safe bet."
What his kids thought of Milk:
"[T]he joke was that my son's problem was seeing his father kiss [James] Franco, and my daughter's problem was seeing Franco kiss her father."
"I never heard the word 'fag' until I was in high school. I might have heard about homosexuals from Life magazine, but I never heard anything derogatory. Politically, it might have been discussed in my home. But it never landed. Did I know gay people? I later came to find out that there were gays in the theater world who were friendly with my family. I remember being at a party as a kid, and Paul Lynde telling my mohter how sexy my father was, and thinking, 'What's that about?'"
Why he is supportive of Cuba:
"But we also lynched blacks all over the South at one time. Did they have massive oppression of homosexuals in Cuba? At one time, yeah. But things change. I'm not a defender of Cuba. But you have to consider the lens you're looking through."
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