Sean Penn Doubles Down on Vaccination Requirement in Theaters and on Set: ‘I Believe It Should Be Mandatory’
,” the Watergate drama in which he plays attorney general John Mitchell, until the entire crew was vaccinated. And at the Aug. 11 premiere of his new film “Flag Day,” Penn said, “I do request people who are not vaccinated, don’t go to the cinemas. Stay home until you are convinced of these very clearly safe vaccines.”
“I didn’t want to feel complicit in something that was taking care of one group and not the other,” Penn told CNN, explaining that currently, only crew members who work closely alongside actors are required to be vaccinated. “And I do believe that everyone should get vaccinated. I believe it should be mandatory, like turning your headlights on in the car at night.”
Beyond his public statements, Penn has also been involved in efforts to increase vaccine access through his nonprofit organization Community Organized Relief Effort . “I accidented into what became CORE because of going down to Haiti the first time [following the 2010 earthquake]. And then with vaccination and testing, that was just an extension of the work that we’d been doing down there.
When asked what he’d say to those who remain unvaccinated, Penn told CNN that there are two categories regarding who he called “vax-resistant” people. “There are those that, once the FDA gives full approval, will go forward with it. And there are those who have become entrenched in a kind of radical libertarianism and an identity of politic that has sort of perversely turned this issue into something that forgets that in the United States of America — in our entire history — it’s all based on being independent because we understand interdependency,” Penn said. “The entire history of successful things in this country.
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