55-Minute Milk Interview on Charlie Rose

If you’ve been reading /Film for a while, than you know that I love long form interviews. Unfortunately, the surge of online press has changed the entire press tour landscape. Its all roundtables or short 10-15 minute one-on-ones. I’m so happy that there are still shows out there like NPR’s Fresh Air and David Poland’s DP30 that offer an arena for an in-depth conversation.

Charlie Rose had a one hour episode dedicated to Gus Van Sant’s Milk. Thankfully, Rose puts all of his interviews on Google Video, so you can watch it embedded below. If you have any doubt about Sean Penn’s performance, watch some of the original footage of Harvey Milk that Rose shows at the start of the show. Rose talks to both Penn, Josh Brolin and director Van Sant. Enjoy.

via: Obsessed with Film

  • All this talk about pricks is getting me excited for Milk
  • Penn will be nominated for this but will not win. He keeps trying to do this type of character over and over.
  • Wall•EPlaysPong
    Doesn't the real Harvey Milk remind you of Sam Raimi? Is it just me?
  • haphazardb141
    I used to like Sean Penn, but as of late I can't stand him. It took everything in my power to watch Into the Wild, which is a great film, but the name Sean Penn offends my senses.
  • Mikey M
    Aqualo...Sean Penn Keeps trying to do this type of character? What? Are you serious?
    Great interview and great movie.
  • i had no idea who milk was before this movie came out. very cool.
  • Marco
    At least Sean Penn didn't go full retard. :oP
  • JohnG
    3 years ago i went to a Marin county city where Penn lives nearby.
    i saw him hanging out in front of a theatre on a main street. he was just standing around smoking a cig with some buddies. i didnt talk to him or really look at him until i crossed the street to go for breakfast in a diner.
    i said to the waitress " hey! i just saw Sean Penn across the street! does he ever come in here?"
    she said " yes, he eats in here all the time. he's an *sshole!, he's rude and does'nt seem to like anyone"
    she said everyone she know's in town feels the same way about him.

    now i dont know anything more about him that what she told me, but i have a clue, he's not very nice sometimes
  • Thanks for posting this.. something great to listen to while I do some work around the house.
  • LEWIS
    Josh Brolin is a prick, perhaps an unintentional prick, because he thinks he's a smart ass for buying rental property in a market where people are losing their homes. It probably was a smart assed thing to do, it just irks me that if and when I lose my home I'll be giving my rental money to a smarmy, smooth talking businessman like JB.

    As for Penn, he's a notorious prick, however (and since I suffer from a similar issue), it can be written off as shyness. He is extremely introverted and the fact that he can even functions in an environment where he plays himself is amazing (he functions by drinking btw... there was a famous clip of him at the Oscars, I think, where he was slurring his words like a madman).

    And one more thing...

    Just because I think JB is a prick doesn't mean I don't love his work. I know it's hard, but we have to disassociate the man from the marketing and appreciate what they do as artists.

    Picasso was a prick. Hemingway was a prick. Fitzgerald was a pussy. Pound was an anti-Semite. Faulkner was a drunk. And they all gave something beautiful to the world. Same goes for Brolin and Penn (although acting is a strange art where the man's face can't be hidden in his work).
  • Marco
    WOW! Thanks for posting this Pete. I enjoyed hearing Sean Penn speak at the SF junket and it's great to hear him continue that here.
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  • LEWIS
    Is it just me or is Josh Brolin a prick?
  • authentic.imitation
    brolin? a prick? did we watch the same interview? i found brolin to be quite affable and ingenuous, not to mention funny. if there's a prick here, it's penn. don't get me wrong--he's a fantastic actor, but as an interviewee, he is nearly insufferable and very pretentious.
  • Why does Penn sounds like he's crying?
  • Great stuff. I think it's great that Brolin sold off the ranch to just allow himself that artistic freedom to do whatever he wants. Keeps him from becoming an actor that just takes great roles in mediocre movies in order to pay the rent. Also, Sean Penn has epic hair-- it's like a beast of its own!
  • Great interviews. I'm more excited and interested in seeing Milk that I was before.
  • If only I had 55 minutes to spare at the moment...
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