He shot at helicopters on the day he married Madonna, was arrested for dangling a photographer from a hotel balcony and has socialised with dictators and drug lords.
Sean Penn seemed to be rewriting the Hollywood hellraiser’s training manual. But that was then – and today the star is intent only on good works.
Penn’s bad boy behaviour was seemingly atoned for when he rescued survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. But whatever his reputation, Penn has no desire to follow his acting peers into middle-aged sobriety and suburbia.
And on the eve of his 60th birthday, the actor claims he is not interested in holding on to his youth. He said: “I’ve always thought of myself as a natural-born 77-year-old, so I’ve got 17 years
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