Sean Penn says’ we ‘need’ people like Charlie Kirk in politics

In a recent interview with The New York TimesSean Penn shared his thoughts about the recent death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Although the “one battle after the other” star said that he did not agree with “almost everything” in which Kirk believed, he claimed that “we have” needs people like Kirk to promote open discussion about social issues.

“We need that debate,” Penn said. “We have to fight and find a compromise. [Acts of political violence] Come in fashion, and the way we kill its fashion, people of conscience on both sides are that if someone really believes something, that your friend is. ”

Penn added that the nation urgently needs mutual understanding in political lines, and that people must recognize different points of view as ‘valid opinions’.

“I am talking about when someone believes that a person starts with conception, if you can’t understand that concept, you’re just stupid,” Penn said. “And if you are not willing to tolerate the concept as a concept that is kept as deep as I may have a conviction that, I don’t know, let the woman decide. All these are valid opinions.”

Penn is hardly the first in Hollywood who speaks out about Kirk. Stars such as Stephen Colbert, Whoopi Goldberg, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Keaton, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Amanda Seyfried all shared their thoughts in the weeks after his death.

Kirk died on 10 September during a striking engagement at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He was 31.

Donald Trump announced the death of Kirk on the truth social and wrote: “The great and even legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. Nobody understood or had the heart of youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by everyone, and now he is no longer with us.