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Sean Penn Calls The #MeToo Movement ‘Toddlers’ Crusade’ In His Widely-Panned New Book

By Silverscreen India Staff

Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn doesn’t believe in giving interviews a lot, but when he does, he sure manages to grab eyeballs. He was recently on Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert to promote his novel ‘Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff’ and the interview can only be described as bizarre.

He starts by lighting up a cigarette on live television and goes on to explain why he doesn’t like acting anymore.

“The greatest thing that an actor can bring to the party is to play well with others. It’s the collaboration,” Penn said. “I increasingly don’t play well with others.”
When Colbert suggested that he should give up smoking for health reasons, Penn’s response was, “This is job security for oncologists.”
Meanwhile, his book is getting panned by critics and readers, for it’s incomprehensible prose and the criticism of the #MeToo movement. In the epilogue of his book, the actor defends Louis C.K. and Charlie Rose in a poem and describes the movement as “toddlers’ crusade.”

Though warrior women
Bravely walk the walk,
Derivatives of disproportion
Draw heinous hypocrites
To their flock.
[….]
Where did all the laughs go?
Are you out there, Louis C.K.?
Once crucial conversations
Kept us on our toes;
Was it really in our interest
To trample Charlie Rose?
And what’s with this ‘Me Too’?
This infantilizing term of the day…
Is this a toddler’s crusade?
Reducing rape, slut-shaming, and suffrage to reckless child’s play?
A platform for accusation impunity?
Due process has lost its sheen?
But, fuck it, what me worry?
I’m a hero,
To Time Magazine!

Since then, there have been many tweets calling out his book with some even calling him “worst writer”.

Silverscreen India Staff is a at Silverscreen India, and can be reached by email at contact@silverscreen.in