Sean Penn sparks backlash after unhinged Oscars tirade

During his press conference, the star looked exhausted as he held the microphone in one hand while the other was pressed against his face.

he told reporters: “The Academy has shown a truly extraordinary cowardice when it comes to being part of the larger world of expression, and in fact has largely contributed to limiting the power of imagination and severely restricting diverse cultural expressions.

“So I don’t get very excited about what we’ll call the Academy Awards (except) as a movie like The Florida Projector I’m still hereor, you know, Emilia Perezof the things that are likely to happen this year.”

The Mystical river The star then turned his sights to the backlash surrounding Ali Abbasi’s Trump biopic starring Sebastian Stan as the president-elect and Jeremy Strong as his lawyer Roy Cohn.