Playboy Interview: Sean Penn
November, 1991
Once, trying to get close enough to Sean Penn to take his picture--let alone talk about his private life--was typically met with epithets, spit and fists.Peoplemagazine diagnosed him as a "slugaholic" and paparazzi often goaded him into violence just to get one more action shot of Penn's knuckles heading straight at a camera lens. He snarled at reporters, threw punches at men who flirted with his then-wife Madonna, refused to do publicity for some of his films and became so immersed in...
