Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn lends support to Hollywood writers' strike

Sean Penn has extended support to the ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike. In a Cannes Film Festival press conference for his new film "Black Flies", Penn spoke in favour of the strike by Hollywood screenwriters.

Sean Penn has extended support to the ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike. In a Cannes Film Festival press conference for his new film "Black Flies", Penn spoke in favour of the strike by Hollywood screenwriters.

"The industry has been upending the writers and actors and directors for a very long time. I fully support the situation with writers guild, of course,” said Penn.

"There's a lot of new concepts being tossed about including the use of AI. It strikes me as a human obscenity for there to be pushback on that from the producers," he said.