I am happy. I feel very alive,’ says Sean Penn, the 63-yearold American actor-director, who is loving life right now.
And well he might. A regular behind the camera (including the recent
Flag Day and Ukraine doc Superpower), the two-time Oscar winner (Best Actor for Mystic River and Milk) is still very much in demand in front of it. Next up, the grim-but-stirring Black Flies as a New York paramedic, alongside Tye Sheridan…
Black Flies is a tough watch. Was it miserable to make?
I had that kind of misery on this. But I also had great partners in Tye and Jean-Stéphane [Sauvaire, director]. Every hour that we worked together, we never had anything but the most respect and collaboration. I felt very protective of Jean-Stéphane. I just felt the limitations financially… and how he was able to sculpt this thing with those limitations. I was there and I still don’t get it.