Sean Penn, 64, baffles fans with unkempt look and busted nose on podcast: 'A 90-year-old homeless guy'

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Sean Penn's appearance on 'The Louis Theroux Podcast' stunned many online users, with fans pointing out how different the actor looked during his interview.

The 64-year-old star, who played guitarist Emmet Ray in Woody Allen’s 'Sweet and Lowdown' 26 years ago, appeared disheveled with gray, unkempt hair, a beard, and a red bruise on his nose—drawing more attention than his controversial remarks, as Daily Mail noted. 

Sean Penn stuns viewers with his aged appearance on podcast

Sean Penn's recent podcast appearance has stirred buzz as many react with shock to his bruised and noticeably aged look.

While Penn’s defense of Woody Allen drew some attention, it was his appearance that the internet reacted to with alarm.

Under a clip of the interview posted on X, one user remarked, “I'm his age. My 95 year old father looks younger than him.”

Another added, “I like Sean Penn. 2 years younger than me and looks a decade older!” while another chimed in, “Jeez he looks rough!!”

“Dude seriously looks not well. Life has been rough on him and he seems miserable,” another commented.

“That’s a hard 64,” someone posted.

One more wrote, “Why does he look like a 90 year old homeless guy?”

Sean Penn defends Woody Allen against molestation allegation

During the interview, Sean Penn addressed the long-standing allegations against director Woody Allen, who cast him in the 1999 film 'Sweet and Lowdown', which earned both men Oscar nominations.

“It’s been 26 years,” Penn said. “I love that movie. I’d work with him in a heartbeat if it was the right thing," he said while speaking on the podcast.

The actor made it clear he doesn’t believe Allen's ex-partner Mia Farrow’s 1992 accusation that Allen molested their then-seven-year-old daughter, Dylan Farrow.

Although the accusations didn't lead to a conviction at the time, it later became part of the broader 'Me Too' movement.

“I haven’t read everything, but the stories are mostly told by people who I would not trust with a dime. It seems so heavily weighted in that way,” Penn said.

Sean Penn challenges validity of allegations against Woody Allen

In defense of Woody Allen, Sean Penn challenged the validity of the allegations and pointed out what he believes to be a flaw in the narrative.

Notably, Allen has consistently claimed that Mia Farrow’s allegations were retaliatory, coming after she found out about his affair with their adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, which began in 1992 when Previn was 22 and Allen was 34 years her senior, according to the Guardian.

They later married in 1997 and have two adopted children. 

“I am not aware of any clinical psychologist or psychiatrist or anyone I ever heard talk about the subject of pedophilia, that in 80 years of life it only happens once. I am not aware of that,” Penn said.

He also stated, “When people try to associate his much younger girlfriends, right or wrong is not the conversation here. Post-puberty consensual stuff is a different conversation.”

Penn continued, “So, I just think that whatever is the worst of people's suspicions about him, just check him with the facts separate from the moment and the movement and all. Who benefited from that.”

He concluded, “Let’s just take a second is all I’m saying. I see he is not proven guilty, so I take him as innocent. I would work with him in a heartbeat.”

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