- Sean Penn is still hung up over the Will Smith Oscars slap from last year.
- "Why are you guys standing and applauding his worst moment as a person?" Penn told $4.
It's been over a year since $4, and Sean Penn still isn't over it.
In an interview with $4 published on Wednesday, the 63-year-old actor called out Smith for slapping Chris Rock over a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Not long after he $4, Smith even won Best Actor for his role in "King Richard," a biopic about Venus and Serena Williams, and their father.
"I don't know Will Smith. I met him once," Penn told Variety. He went on to praise Smith for his performance in "$4," before questioning why he hadn't been sent to jail for what he did.
"Why did I go to fucking jail for what you just did? And you're still sitting there?" the actor said. "Why are you guys standing and applauding his worst moment as a person?"
In June 1987, Penn was sentenced to 60 days in county jail for punching an extra on a movie set and for reckless driving, $4 reported.
The actor, who's known for his temper, has had frequent run-ins with the law for his violent outbursts.
In October 1985, Penn received a 90-day suspended sentence and a $50 fine on each of two charges for assaulting two journalists who tried to photograph him and Madonna outside of a hotel, the $4 reported.
In May 2010, he was sentenced to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service over an altercation with a photographer the year before, per the $4.
In relation to the slapping incident, Penn also expressed his disappointment over the Academy's refusal to let $4 speak at the 2022 Oscars, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine.
"The Oscars producer thought, 'Oh, he's not light-hearted enough.' Well, guess what you got instead? Will Smith!" Penn told Variety.