Hopper Penn and Dylan Penn
“I can see being really pissed that I got this role, as another person,” Dylan told W after dad Sean Penn directed her within the 2021 drama Flag Day. At the identical time, she added, as a working actress “I have been auditioning endlessly. I have been rejected endlessly.”
Regarding the kerfuffle over her brother starring in a Spielberg-daughter-directed short, Dylan stressed, “This is the business. It’s about who you realize. At all times. Whether you are the son of Sean Penn or not.”
Hopper, who made his movie debut in Sean’s film The Last Face, told E! News in February that the nepo baby conversation didn’t really affect him.
“I’m like, ‘Should you prefer it, cool. Should you don’t, great,'” he explained, having just made Devil’s Peak with mom Robin Wright. “And for those who think that there is nepotism happening, I actually don’t care because I’m gonna do the work just as skilled as everybody else, and I’m not gonna come there and do it half-ass because I’m working with my dad, I’m working with my mom.'”
Working together with his father, Hopper noted, was the identical “great nightmare” for him because it was for all the opposite actors who weren’t related to the director.
And on any project, he added, “if I tousled on the film the primary day, I’d be fired similar to everyone else. Or, if I used to be terrible, I will be terrible. And I actually have been terrible.”