Sean Penn made a smoky appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote his book.
The actor told Colbert Monday that he had taken a sedative “to get sleep after a red-eye flight” and he went on to light a cigarette.
“How do you tell Sean-Penn-on-Ambien from Sean-Penn-NOT-on-Ambien?” Colbert asked.
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The 57-year-old actor discussed why he no longer finds joy in acting.
“The greatest thing that an actor can bring to the party is to play well with others — it’s the collaboration — and I increasingly don’t play well with others,” he explained between puffs of his cigarette. “And so it becomes less enjoyable, because I love that process when I love it, but I’m not loving it anymore and that’s really why I finally came around to writing a novel because I didn’t have collaborators. I was never disappointed with me.”
The two-time Academy Award winner described his book, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff as “the conversation once a year with the drunken uncle.”
Penn lit a second cigarette and Colbert asked him to consider quitting. Penn said that it was “job security for oncologists.”
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Some viewers were confused by what they were witnessing on The Late Show.
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Watch Penn on The Late Show in the video above.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs weeknights at 11:35 PM on Global.
—With files from the Associated Press
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