Sean Penn Takes Swing at “Cowardly” Unions Over Lack of Hollywood Vaccination Mandate

Hollywood Reporter ^ | AUGUST 20, 2021 | Ryan Parker

[nickcarraway]

The Oscar-winning actor made headlines in late July when he refused to return to work on Starz’s Watergate series 'Gaslit' until all cast and crew on the production were vaccinated against COVID-19.

Sean Penn on Thursday took a swing at Hollywood unions when he blasted leadership for pushback on production vaccination mandates.

The Oscar-winning actor talked about the situation while a guest on The Late Show where he was promoting his upcoming film, Flag Day.

“I think at the end of the day the problem is with cowardly union leadership in many cases,” Penn told Stephen Colbert. “I think most people, like your audience, are rational.”

Penn said the center of the problem is a “fringe” within the unions who refuse to be jabbed for political reasons and union leadership is “afraid” to make those members fall in line.

“Once the genie of rationality got out of the bottle from that void in leadership in the beginning of this thing, it’s become an embedded identity politic kind of radical libertarianism that truly doesn’t understand that the entire history of our country’s independent spirit is because of its recognition of the importance of interdependence,” the actor said.

Melissa Joan Hart Reveals Breakthrough Diagnosis: "I am Vaccinated and I Got COVID, and It's Bad" Penn made headlines in late July when he refused to return to work on Starz’s Watergate series Gaslit until all cast and crew on the production had the COVID-19 vaccine.

“The good thing that did happen was immediately after — and I should say I had a lot of support from co-actors and producers on this — the next day, 14 people got voluntarily vaccinated,” Penn said. “The bad news is that on a crew of 100 and something, there were more than 14 people who had chosen not to because it’s not entirely vaccinated yet.”

Penn said an agreement had been reached that the scenes he is not in will be shot with a not fully vaccinated (but tested) crew and those people will be switched out with fully vaccinated members when he returns.

Watch the interview below.

[CatOwner]

If this were not many years ago, Penn would disappear.

[Huskrrrr]

I won’t even watch an old Sean Penn movie, anymore.

[Steely Tom]

Hang your heads in shame, unions, Spicoli is calling you out.

[Veggie Todd]

[Signalman]

Penn’s father, Leo Penn, an actor and director, refused to provide names to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their investigation of communist infiltration of the film industry.

He was “blacklisted” because of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Penn

[freedumb2003]

>>I won’t even watch an old Sean Penn movie, anymore.<<

He made more than the one? Something High?

[bray]

Hey Sean, what exactly is the percentage effectiveness of the vax?

[Da Coyote]

Penn is 100 fries, the burger, and the drink short of a happy meal.

He is such a dunce that even your typical two digit IQ actor thinks he’s a Dorkbama level idiot.

[V_TWIN]

Still angry because his career has been on a downward slide since Mark Spicolli

[V_TWIN]

Jeff spicoli

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Once the genie of rationality got out of the bottle from that void in leadership in the beginning of this thing, it’s become an embedded identity politic kind of radical libertarianism that truly doesn’t understand that the entire history of our country’s independent spirit is because of its recognition of the importance of interdependence,” the actor read from his cue cards.

Fixed!

I find it hard to believe Penn knows and/or can pronounce so many big words! But, El Chapo approves, and that's what's really important.

[stanne]

Here are some other institutions and corporations not mandating the vaccines

He could do a bit of research and get a clue:

The White House
The CDC
The FDA
Pfizer
Moderna
Johnson & Johnson
The World Health Organization
The Airline Industry - American, SW, Delta. Has to be a reason

The people getting slammed are small business retailers being told they can’t allow non vaccinated customers
Government workers not in the medical field
Children. College students

Vulnerable people with no power and no congressional or judicial representation

Every one of these shots either contains or is derived from aborted fetal parts. Every shot

[E. Pluribus Unum]

When the Great Reset Purge begins, I have dibs on Sean.

[asinclair]

As an earlier contributor pointed out, there are lots of places not mandating the vaxx. So the lesson here is to not listen to what they say, but what what they do; or, in this case, not do.

Missing from that list were a number of medical professionals, doctors and nurses who elect to be jabless.

[packagingguy]

That’s not what a union is for...it’s for collective bargaining.

[Old Grumpy]

Jeeze. The world is going to hell in a handbasket and that stinking commie is talking about vaccinations. We see where his priorities are.

[T.B. Yoits]

Sean Penn may want to reach out to fellow actress Melissa Joan Hart about how the vaccine doesn't work anyway. (Yes, "actress" applies to both of them.)

Actress Melissa Joan Hart Gets COVID Despite Being "Vaccinated"
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3987154/posts

[Pollard]

commie gotta commie