Sean Penn doesn’t have Covid, after all. Paul Thomas Anderson announced from the stage at last night’s DGA Awards that Penn — his Licorice Pizza cast members who was going to present the filmmaker with a special medallion — had to skip the event because Penn had tested positive.
Deadline is told that Penn did test positive in preparation for attending the DGAs. But the suspicion is that the test result was a false positive.
Some 48 hours after that first test, Penn has tested negative and was never symptomatic.Penn is no stranger to the Covid cause.
When the pandemic hit two years ago, his CORE group was at the forefront of efforts to arrange for testing for those who would have found it difficult to get otherwise.
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