Hopper Penn and Dylan Penn
“I see that I was very angry that I got this role as someone else,” Dylan. said W after dad Sean Penn cast her in a 2021 drama Flag Day. At the same time, she added that as a working actress, “I was constantly auditioning. I was rejected forever.”
Regarding the controversy over her brother's starring in a short film directed by Spielberg's daughter, Dylan stressed: “This is a business. It's about who you know. Always. Regardless of whether you are Sean Penn's son or not.”
Hopper, who made his film debut in Shaun Last facetold E! February news that the unchildish conversation didn’t really affect him.
“I was like, ‘If you like it, cool. If not, great,” he explained, having just done Devil's Peak with mom Robin Wright. “And if you think there's nepotism going on, I really don't care because I'm going to do my job as professionally as anyone else and I'm not going to go in there and do it half-heartedly because I work with my dad, I work with my mom.”
Working with his father, Hopper noted, was the same “big nightmare” for him as for all the other actors who weren't relating to the director.
And on any project, he added, “if I had failed on the first day, I would have been fired like everyone else. Or, if I were terrible, I would be terrible. And I was terrible.”
