Fans rushed to social media to share their thoughts on Penn\u2019s particularly strong wording, with many hitting out at the outspoken actor. <\/p>\n
\u201cI agree on the selfie thing though not to the extent Penn put on it. Holocaust grandmother seems a bit much but it does seem like a degrading exercise for the seeker,\u201d remarked one.<\/p>\n
A second commented: \u201cOr, just be thankful you\u2019ve got one of the most privileged jobs on the planet and spend two seconds being nice to the people that put you there … remember? The fans?\u201d <\/p>\n
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Another insisted: \u201cAt first I thought it was ridiculous to put the holocaust survivor thing in the headline until I saw that he brought it up unprompted!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was kinda with him until that U-turn at the end there. I\u2019m not even sure what that even means,\u201d added a fourth. \u201cCould you imagine if a conservative actor said that there\u2019s no way he\u2019s taking a selfie with a holocaust grandmother?\u201d<\/p>\n
However, not everyone disagreed with the controversial star.<\/p>\n
\u201cPenn is a pretentious c**t for a dozen or more reasons, but I cant say I disagree with his take on selfies,\u201d shared one fan in agreement. <\/p>\n
\u201cJust because you are a Holocaust survivor, that doesn\u2019t give you right to bother others,\u201d tweeted another. <\/p>\n
Penn won his third Oscar earlier this year for his role in One Battle After Another, however, he failed to show up to the ceremony.<\/p>\n
The mystery surrounding his absence intensified when Kieran Culkin told the auditorium while accepting the award on Penn\u2019s behalf: \u201cSean Penn couldn\u2019t be here this evening \u2014 or didn\u2019t want to \u2014 so I\u2019ll be accepting the award on his behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead of schmoozing with Hollywood royalty, he was instead busy in Ukraine spending time with good friend President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n
\u201cSean, thanks to you, we know what a true friend of Ukraine is. You have stood with Ukraine since the first day of the full-scale war,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on X along with a photo of himself and Sean sitting in his office.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is still true today,\u201d Zelenskyy continued. \u201cAnd we know that you will continue to stand with our country and our people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Penn has stunned his fans with a wild claim about holocaust survivors and the disabled. The Hollywood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-470113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}