It looks like the two time Academy Award winner Sean Penn could follow Daniel Day-Lewis and call it quits when it comes to acting. In a recent interview with Tracy Smith on CBS Sunday Morning, Penn revealed that he doesn’t enjoy acting anymore.
“You know, I think that this has been true for some time,” said Penn. “It can be great when you’re working with good actors or good directors or good writing as an exercise, but do I have a belief that it has a lasting value? Maybe, I could make the argument intellectually. But I don’t have a visceral – I’m not in love with that anymore.”
While we might lose Sean Penn the actor, we are getting Sean Penn the writer, since the 57-year-old just finished his first novel titled Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff. Set for release next week, the novel focuses on Bob Honey, “a modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin.” Speaking of the novel, Penn said that there will be people who will “enjoy it”, but also those who will not be too thrilled with his work.
“You know, some people are going to get this book and some people are – not going to get this book,” he said. “Some people, I think, will really enjoy it, others will loathe it. And- and that really is what I’d like to say about me, you know?”
Sean Penn started his career in the ’80s with the role in movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and At Close Range. In the following decade, he established himself as a prominent lead actor, receiving his first Academy Award nomination in 1995 for the movie Dead Man Walking.
After two more nominations, he finally received an Oscar for his work on 2003’s Mystic River. Second Academy Award for Best Actor followed in 2008 for the portrayal of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk in the movie Milk.
His most recent projects include directing the 2016’s The Last Face, and portrayal of Dr. William Chester Minor in the upcoming movie The Professor and the Madman.
