Author: Zack Sharf / Source: IndieWire
The actor and director says the #MeToo movement has been “shouldered by a kind of receptacle of the salacious.”
Sean Penn made his thoughts on the #MeToo anti-harassment movement clear during an interview with “Today” reporter Natalie Morales on the September 17 edition of the NBC morning show.
The actor was promoting his new Hulu original drama series “The First” but raised eyebrows when he said #MeToo has been “largely shouldered by a kind of receptacle of the salacious.”“We don’t know what’s a fact in many of the cases,” Penn said when asked to elaborate. “Salacious is as soon as you call something a movement that is really a series of many individual accusers, victims, accusations, some of which are unfounded…The spirit of much of what has been the #MeToo movement is to divide men and women.”
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