Sean Penn may be one of the most successful actors in the world, but his drinking hole choice in Sydney is far from flashy.
It’s been revealed that the Oscar winning actor and director has been sinking beers at Glenroy Hotel in the Sydney suburb of Alexandria. The pub is located on a busy industrial road, and opposite a Mcdonald’s – a far cry from the fancy bars and pubs in Sydney’s CBD.
“He likes to have a drink and chill out and have a night at the pub,” one local told news.com.au.
Penn is in the country to shoot the six-part Australian dark-comedy series C*A*U*G*H*T, which will premiere next year, and hired out a section of Glenroy hotel to celebrate Halloween with his costars.
“There’s an outside-inside area at the pub where they have trivia and he booked that area for a Halloween party,” the local said.
According to the local, a producer for C*A*U*G*H*T said that Penn decided to join the Australian series which will be released on Stan, because he wanted to support the show’s creator, director, and star Kick Gurry. Penn plays the leading role in the series, and is also the executive producer.
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“There was a reason that Sean Penn came to Australia to make an Australian TV show,” the producer said at Glenroy hotel.
“And that reason was that he wanted to be around this particular person’s positivity. He believed that the world needed the positivity this guy had. And Sean wanted to put that positivity on a pedestal for the whole world to see.”
Penn recently took a stand against cancel culture, calling it “self-righteous”.
‘I’m a little frustrated with the world,” Penn said in an interview with the Toronto Sun. “I’m glad I’m old and won’t be having to deal with where this stuff is going.”
“We give too much of a shit about what we are going to be accused of by people who want to be self-righteous because they can get a quick reward,” he continued.
“And they’re self-righteous hypocritically — they damn this, but don’t worry about why kids are being bombed in Yemen, because it’s not getting them into a club right away.”
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