Hopper Penn and Dylan Penn
“I can tell you’re really upset that they got this role as someone else,” Dylan told W after his father, Sean Penn, directed the 2021 drama “Flag Day.” At the same time, as an active actress, she added, “I’ve been auditioning for a long time. I’ve always been rejected.”
Regarding the uproar over his brother’s appearance in a short film directed by Spielberg’s daughter, Dylan insisted, “This is business. It’s about who you know. Always. It doesn’t matter if you’re Sean Penn’s son or not.”
Hopper, who made his film debut in Sean’s The Last Face, told E! News in February that Nepo’s conversation with the baby didn’t affect him much.
“It’s like, ‘If you like it, cool, but if you don’t, cool,'” he explained, having just made Devil’s Peak with his mother, Robin Wright. “I don’t care at all if you think there’s nepotism going on. I’m going to do my job professionally like everyone else and I’m not going to come in there and do my job half-heartedly because I’m working with my dad and I’m working with my mom.”
Director Hopper said that working with his father was a “huge nightmare” for him, as well as for other actors not related to the director.
And he added that in any project, “If the movie flops on the first day, I’m going to get fired like everyone else. Or if I’m terrible, I’m going to be terrible. And I’ve been terrible so far.”
