These are maybe my favorite photos of Sean Penn ever. He’s in character as “Cheyenne” in This Must Be The Place, which is filming in Dublin. So… heads up, Irish Celebitches. Sean Penn is in town, he’s got an afro, and he’ll f-ck your sh-t up. By the way, should I even call it an “afro”? Or should I refer to it as “a hot mess that even Britney Spears would shake her head at”? Also: I love how young Sean looks here. It’s like you can put in a mangy wig and dab some red lipstick on him, and all of a sudden he’s in his 20s again. Anyway, the film also stars Frances McDormand, Harry Dean Stanton (he’s still alive?) and Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson, who for some reason has taken her mother’s maiden name…? Ah, Bono’s real name is Paul Hewson, nevermind. The concept for the film is strange too… this synopsis might be a SPOILER, so beware:
Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star (Penn), now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on a quest to find his father’s persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal now hiding out in the U.S. Learning his father is close to death, he travels to New York in the hope of being reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late.
Having been estranged for over 30 years, it is only now in death that he learns the true extent of his father’s humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise Muller – an event he is determined to avenge. So begins a life-altering journey across the heartland of America to track down and confront his father’s nemesis.
As his quest unfolds, Cheyenne is reawakened by the people he encounters and his journey is transformed into one of reconciliation and self discovery. As his date with destiny arrives and he tracks down Muller, Cheyenne must finally decide if it is redemption he seeks ….or revenge.
Starring two time Academy Award winner Sean Penn and marking the much-anticipated English-language debut of acclaimed director Paolo Sorrentino, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a gripping examination of a man on the precipice of obsession.
[From IMDB]
It sounds kind of like Into The Wild, only the main character is a be-afro’d middle-aged rock star, and his spiritual cross-country journey is all about Nazis. Neat.
Sean Penn on August 22, 2010. Credit: WENN.
OMG I think he looks like shit! IMO the makeup is going right into his wrinkles and aging him . Maybe it is because I just hate him so much.
Seems like an interesting storyline, but I’ll never see it. Penn has completely alientated me with his idiot politics and smug pseudo-intellectual attitude.
And that has to be one of the most stupid looks I’ve ever seen. I realize he’s in costume, but OMG–how crazy scary looking he is.
Bono’s real name is Paul Hewson, so it is in fact her last name, not her mother’s maiden name.
He looks like like my Aunt Svetlana from Russia.
Lisa, you totally beat me to it. I was just thinking, hey, he looks just like my crazy aunt first thing in the morning.
He kinda looks like Bono Vox in the second picture.
Well that’s an interesting look. Thought he was in drag before clicking thru. The movie sounds interesting though.
Styling by Robert Smith of the Cure.
Whom I believe is STILL wearing giant messy black hair and smudged red lipstick, although he must be about Penn’s age.
Godawful. Sounds like they were going for Bowie but somehow he ended up Bonham Carter.
He looks like Robert Smith from The Cure
He looks awful, but he is fugly inside and out without any makeup anyway. I will not see any movie he makes, I just cannot stand his politics and attitude.
i think i just threw up in my mouth
He *very* much looks like my grandma, about 20 years ago! I’m going to have to email this link to my mom & aunts-they’ll freak.
I’d rather have seen Robert Smith from The Cure playing this part. Can’t see past Sean Penn’s internal ugliness and hate.
Robert Smith has been doing this look better for about 35 years now.
Even made up as an old lady he is ugly. The man has a harsh bitter look.
it’s an improvement over his normal self !!hahhahhaha!!!
Ladies, behold, the next face of Lancome.
LOL
I, too, thought he was supposed to be in drag.
I’m sorry, I know there are some serious Sean haters here. Sh*t in some ways he really is a bastard. But he is a great actor, it’s hard to deny. He can play anything. Even this wo/man we see here.
BLOODY HELL! That is the stuff that disturbs your sleep!
Tragic UGLY hot mess. LOL.
Co-sign all of you who said Robert Smith of The Cure does it way better.
@aenflex: ITA he’s a great actor; Mystic River is one of my favorite movies due mostly to his performance.
With Sean, it’s just hard to separate the real life ‘bastard’ from the very talented actor he is.
he looks like that guy from Poison
ROFLMAO!!!
Not another Nazi movie. Yawn.
He’s no Terence Stamp that’s for sure!
Yee Gawd…
So…does this mean he won’t make the hot Friday guys?
Is he supposed to be a transvestite rock star? What’s with the get-up? Whew! At this point Sean is several sandwiches shy of a picnic.
Looks like an aging tranny. And that plot synopsis – exactly the over-the-top, faux-transformational, redemption-or-revenge Oscar-bait drama that gasbag actors love.
20 year old SP? Really? Really? I think he looks like a 70 year old drag queen.
Gross. Put it on my “skip” list.
What a mess! Won’t see the movie either – sounds like a snoozefest.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! Ridiculous!
I though he was playing as a transvestie
is it a horror movie?
Robin Wright can rest well at night knowing she made the right decision.
Egads!
😆 @ Stronzilla!
I can name four guys I know right now who look just like the above. They all play guitar. Although nobody would be caught dead in bright red lipstick.
He looks terrible and the plot of the movie is really uninteresting to me.
This movie sounds stuuuuuuuuupid.
“Looks like an aging tranny. And that plot synopsis – exactly the over-the-top, faux-transformational, redemption-or-revenge Oscar-bait drama that gasbag actors love.”
You nailed it.
Damn, he’s just ghastly.
Eeek… I’m saying tragic mess (the hot in there just sounds dated, and definitely doesn’t apply here!).
I thought he was playing a bitter, aging transvestite.
Good GOD!!! I don’t know which is worse, the styling or the plot! 😯
So… heads up, Irish Celebitches. Sean Penn is in town, he’s got an afro, and he’ll f-ck your sh-t up.
We knew that already, 😉 as there were photos of the Nightmare Tranny up there celebrating his 50th birthday with Bono in the Irish Independent (CB got sent the link last week).
And I hope you didn’t think Bono was his given name! He took it from a shop in Dublin. Some people say it was a skateboarding shop, but I remember Bonovox being a hearing-aid shop (meaning ‘good voice’)off O’Connell street, up to at least 8 years ago.
I better break it to you now Kaiser, but The Edge wasn’t christened as that either 😉
Young? He looks 80. And not a good 80, either.
This screams Tim Burton to me. Penn is a great actor, but I could see this going way wrong if the script isn’t perfect. Lots of hysteria and preachiness.
Looks like a toxic tranny. Shades of Michael Palin. Are you sure this is not a Monty Python movie???