Sean Penn shared a trailer with his One Battle After Another co-star Leonardo DiCaprio and they had to fetch their own coffee.
The 65-year-old actor has revealed the film’s director Paul Thomas Anderson discouraged diva behaviour on set so the stars didn’t get their own space and they didn’t have assistants running around catering to their every need.
He told Variety: “There’s nothing at all performative about him as a director. There’s no letting everyone know who’s the director, or the boss, or any of that.
“In fact, he doesn’t want that from anybody. There’s no big trailers. Leo and I shared a double banger.
“And there’s nobody to say: ‘Hey, could you grab me a coffee?’ You get your own coffee. Everything was focused on the movie.”
Sean also revealed he agreed to appear in the movie because he was keen to work with Leonardo.
He explained: “With Paul’s movie, by the time he sent me the script he already had Leo on board. Leo, I’d wanted to work with him — I’d known him since he was 15, and we’d almost done several movies together over the years.
“I think I was on page 15 [of the script], and I just called him [Anderson] and said…’Wherever this goes, I’m in.’ It was killing me.”
He added: “My experience of it [the film] was all in the script. I didn’t struggle on this one at all. It was so clear to me. I had such a great experience reading that script that I didn’t want to get in the audience’s way…
“I never questioned where the camera was. I knew I was in great hands the whole time.”
Sean plays the part of Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw — a military officer who is out to get revenge on a group of dissidents — and his co-star Leonardo previously admitted he was impressed by his pal’s performance.
Speaking at an in-conversation event at BFI Southbank in London, Leonardo explained: “He really brought elements to it that a lot of other actors… wouldn’t have made that choice.
“We talked a lot about who Lockjaw was going to be. And then when Paul decided on Sean, what was so amazing to see it up on film — because I hadn’t seen a lot of it, I was off doing my own stuff — was the fragility that he brought to what would otherwise be an obvious choice [from] maybe some other actors to make him purely menacing.”
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