Dylan Penn is stunning in "Flag Day" directed by her father Sean Penn.
Reality telescopes fiction because the father and daughter also play a father and daughter in the film.
Dylan received the "New Hollywood" award at the Deauville Festival and the film was just before in competition at Cannes.
Dylan Penn has a lot to look out for! Daughter of Robin Wright and Sean Penn, the actress received the "New Hollywood" award at the Deauville Festival for her role in
Flag Day
, a film discovered in Cannes, in which she is directed by her father. “At first, I didn't want to act as an actress,” she confides to
20 Minutes
. My parents convinced me that it was a good way to put my foot in the stirrup to move faster to realization. "
The thirty-something would have been wrong to refuse this golden role taken from the true story of journalist Jennifer Vogel and her father John, an invasive mythomaniac.
“Playing opposite my own father who plays John was both comfortable and intimidating,” Penn recalls.
He knows how to direct his actors so precisely that I sometimes completely forgot our kinship relationship when he gave me instructions.
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His father this hero
The young woman quickly felt close to her character torn between her love for her father and the fact that she found him a bit cumbersome. “I can understand Jennifer and her need to separate from her family in order to assert herself. »She is dazzlingly natural in this first appearance which invites the spectator to wonder if the talent would not be hereditary. "It is difficult for me to comment on this subject," she admits, "but it is certain that I have frequented movie sets from a young age and that I therefore feel at ease there. "
What Dylan Penn is happy to comment on is his daddy's talent.
“Having my dad as a partner was a gift,” she says.
Before that, I did not really realize what he is capable of, nor his generosity towards other actors.
Sean Penn did not make the job easier for his daughter by confiding in her scenes that were not really easy.
The one where his character conducts an interview while following a newsreel on television in which his father is pursued by the police will be remembered for a long time.
Actress in the making
“I happened to cry rivers of tears while filming,” she recalls with a smile.
When I saw my father in John's place, it upset me.
This experience gave her a taste for the game, because if Dylan Penn still wants to produce and direct, she admits that her parents were right.
“You learn a lot by being an actress,” she admits.
She is impatiently awaiting new proposals.
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