The Oscar he preferred to watch from the couch
Sean Penn just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. But he didn’t go to pick it up. Disdain? Ego? Nothing of the sort. In an interview with Newsweek, the actor made it clear: it is pure social anxiety.
“The world of awards is, for me… hell,” he confessed.
For Penn, all the paraphernalia of red carpets and speeches gives him a horrible feeling. So much so that he says he prefers not being nominated rather than having to go on stage.
“I prefer not to be nominated rather than feel pressured to have to participate,” he said.
And here comes the good thing. He publicly denied his friend Julia Roberts. She has always said that anyone who claims not to want to win an Oscar is lying.
“She says ‘anyone who says they don’t want to win the Academy Award is lying.’ That’s not true,” Penn argued. “It’s not about not wanting to win, that’s all that comes with it… for me, it’s just a matter of social anxiety, it’s not comfortable.”
The only time it was (and by commitment)
Penn recalled that he only went to the Oscars once, when he was nominated for Mystic River. The reason? Clint Eastwood asked him for it. And that time, coincidentally, he won.
“I went and, by chance, I won, and the only feeling I could have from winning is relief… I probably would have been a lot more excited watching it from my couch,” he said.
So you already know. The man with two golden statuettes (for Mystic River and Milk) prefers the comfort of his home to the glamorous chaos of Hollywood. An ironic twist on the typical dream come true story.




