Sean Penn looks unrecognizable as Richard Nixon's attorney general in Gaslit trailer

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Sean Penn can be seen looking truly unrecognizable in his next role, playing Richard Nixon's attorney general John Mitchell in the upcomingStarz seriesGaslit.The 61-year-old actor - who recently complained that American men have become 'feminized' - appears to have spent hours in the make-up chair to transform into the famed political character.Interestingly, Penn is around the same age as John Mitchell was when he worked for Nixon, who was in his early sixties around the time the drama is set.With the help of prosthetics, the Oscar-winner looks strikingly different as Mitchell in the drama surrounding the Watergate scandal.

Sean as John:Roberts plays Margaret Mitchell, the wife of Richard Nixon's attorney general John Mitchell (Sean Penn), who was the first person to, 'publicly sound the alarm on Nixon's involvement' in the Watergate scandalNo stranger to changing his screen appearance, Penn last donned a prosthetic nose when he transformed into the Brooklyn-born mafia boss Mickey Cohen in the crime drama Gangster Squad in 2012.

He is also rumored to have worn prosthetics to play Harvey Milk, the first American politician and first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California.Last week, in an interview, Penn remarked, 'I am in the club that believes that men in American culture have become wildly feminised.' Dramatic makeover: Penn in Cannes last year (left) and in character as John Mitchell (right)He added: 'I don't think that being a brute or having insensitivity or disrespect for women is anything to do with masculinity, or ever did.

But I don’t think that [in order] to be fair to women, we should become them.'Meanwhile, the political thriller limited television series Gaslit is based on the first.