Sean Penn says Will Smith slap made him want to melt his Oscars down to bullets to ‘shoot at the Russians’
nypost.comWill Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, the notoriously hot-tempered Sean Penn is questioning why he was jailed for a similar incident.“I don’t know Will Smith.
I met him once,” Penn, 63, told Variety in a new interview. He seemed very nice when I met him. He was so f—ing good in ‘King Richard.'”The “Dead Man Walking” star continued, “So why the f— did you just spit on yourself and everybody else with this stupid f—ing thing?
Why did I go to f—ing jail for what you just did? And you’re still sitting there? Why are you guys standing and applauding his worst moment as a person?”Penn is seemingly referring to being sentenced to 60 days in county jail in 1987 after punching and spitting on an extra on the set of “Colors.”He was 26 at the time and served only 33 days of his sentence.
Penn was already on probation at the time for a misdemeanor battery charge for allegedly assaulting his then-partner, Madonna’s, songwriter friend, David Wolinski, at a nightclub in April 1986.
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