Julia Roberts and Sean Penn Bond speak up on their bond, cancel culture’

Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Sean Penn are delivering powerpacked performances as complicated volatile characters amid volatile political environmentsIn Luca Guadagninorsquos lsquoAfter the Huntrsquo Julia Roberts plays Alma Imhoff a Yale professor of philosophy who is forced to confront her own flaws and biases when a student accuses her colleague of assault reports lsquoVarietyrsquoAnd in Paul Thomas Andersonrsquos lsquoOne Battle After Anotherrsquo Sean Pennrsquos Col Steven J Lockjaw plunges the lives of a father and daughter into chaos as he undertakes a mission of revenge against political dissidentsAs per lsquoVarietyrsquo the actors who are longtime friends and neighbors spoke about their work and careers before heading to dinnerWhen Julia asked ldquoHow many years do you think wersquove known each other I think I know the answerrdquo her coactor said ldquoIrsquom thinking back to New York the Mayflower Hotel during the shooting of lsquoThe Pope of Greenwich Villagersquordquo During the conversation the actress spoke about Luca Guadagnino Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri who are her costars in lsquoAfter the HuntrsquoShe said ldquoLuca and Andrew Garfield Ayo Edebiri and Chloe Sevigny came to our house and sat for days and days at our kitchen table and we had all these conversations Really bright people do not jockey for their position They share their ideas and their feelings and then they listen intently Itrsquos the listening that I feel wersquove gotten the farthest from in culture because conversations get so intense so quickly and yoursquore just waiting for that break so that you can say lsquoOK but this is why Irsquom right This is why what I believe is betterrsquo It was so nice to have the time and to be with truly bright people and hearing what everybody had to say We didnrsquot necessarily tell all our charactersrsquo secrets But it was just a great playground of thoughtrdquoSean Penn opined that shame is underrated these days as he said ldquolsquoNot everything is supposed to make you comfortablersquo I just wanted to go lsquoThank God somebodyrsquos saying thisrsquordquoldquoWersquore in this time of a lot of talk therapy a lot of what Irsquod call the trauma industry I think shame is underrated these days Itrsquos got a bad name this decade Why shouldnrsquot people be ashamed of things Hold on to it for a while and reenter with some more humilityrdquo he addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever