Overview
- The pair appeared on Variety & CNN’s Actors on Actors season 23 in an episode that aired Saturday, December 6.
- They discussed their current projects, with Roberts referencing After the Hunt and Penn talking about One Battle After Another, alongside reflections on their careers.
- Penn called Danny Moder his “favorite cinematographer” and recounted an anecdote about Moder handholding a camera that someone described as “the sexiest thing on earth.”
- Penn reminisced about first meeting Roberts in New York during the shooting of The Pope of Greenwich Village, recalling her as Eric Roberts’ younger sister.
- The conversation revisited their 2022 collaboration on Starz’s Gaslit, where Roberts lauded Penn’s transformation and creator Robbie Pickering highlighted the vulnerability in his performance.