During an interview with Variety<\/a>, Roberts and Penn discussed their illustrious careers and bringing “shame” back into the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n While discussing Roberts’s recent film, “After the Hunt,”<\/a> the actress shared a pivotal moment for her when she was mingling with her cast mates and realized that “listening” is what’s missing from culture in today’s generation.<\/p>\n Julia Roberts and Sean Penn weighed in on cancel culture. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n “Luca [Guadagnino] and Andrew [Garfield] and Ayo [Edebiri] and Chlo\u00eb [Sevigny] came to our house and sat for days and days at our kitchen table, and we had all these conversations,” Roberts began.<\/p>\n RICHARD GERE SAYS ‘INTEGRAL’ ‘PRETTY WOMAN’ SCENE WITH JULIA ROBERTS WAS IMPROVISED<\/a><\/p>\n “We\u2019re in this time of a lot of talk therapy, a lot of what I\u2019d call the trauma industry. I think shame is underrated these days.”<\/p>\n \u2014 Sean Penn<\/p>\n “Really bright people do not jockey for their position. They share their ideas and their feelings and then they listen intently. It\u2019s the listening that I feel we\u2019ve gotten the farthest from in culture, because conversations get so intense so quickly, and you\u2019re just waiting for that break so that you can say, ‘OK, but this is why I\u2019m right. This is why what I believe is better,'” she continued.<\/p>\n LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n Roberts and Penn both agreed that “listening” and “humility” need to come back. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n “It was so nice to have the time and to be with truly bright people, and hearing what everybody had to say. We didn\u2019t necessarily tell all our characters\u2019 secrets. But it was just a great playground of thought,” Roberts concluded.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n Penn<\/a> chimed in, “‘Not everything is supposed to make you comfortable’ \u2014 I just wanted to go, ‘Thank God somebody\u2019s saying this.'”<\/p>\n Julia Roberts and Sean Penn are longtime friends. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"Julia](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/julia-roberts-sean-penn.jpg\")
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