Hopper Penn and Dylan Penn
“I can see that I’m really bummed that I got this role as someone else,” Dylan told W after dad Sean Penn directed her in the 2021 drama Flag Day. Meanwhile, she added, as a working actress “I’ve been auditioning forever. I’ve been rejected forever.”
As for the uproar over her brother starring in a short film directed by Spielberg’s daughter, Dylan stressed: “This is the deal. It’s about who you know. Always. Whether you’re Sean Penn’s son or not.”
Hopper, who made his film debut in Sean’s film The last facetold E! News in February that nepo baby talk didn’t really affect him.
“I’m like, ‘If you like it, cool. If you don’t, great,'” he explained, after doing Devil’s Peak with mother Robin Wright. “And if you think there’s nepotism going on, I really don’t care because I’m going to do the job as professionally as anybody else, and I’m not going to come in there and do it halfway because I work with my dad, I work with my mom.”
Working with his father, Hopper noted, was the same “huge nightmare” for him as it was for any other actor who wasn’t it related to the director.
And on any project, he added, “if I messed up the film on the first day, I’d be fired just like everybody else. Or, if I was terrible, I’d be terrible. And I’ve been terrible.”
