Sean Penn to Greg Bovino: “Just to be clear, I don’t respect you or any of the other ICE thugs who brought about murder and mayhem on the streets of Minneapolis in recent weeks. But I may as well be honest and acknowledge that you’re the reason I won a Best Supporting Actor award at BAFTA last weekend and last night at the SAG Actor awards.
“Lord knows I’m not ‘thanking’ you, but I can’t pretend you didn’t have anything to do with this. Had it not been for you I probably wouldn’t have won in London and Los Angeles. I’m just being honest with myself and, fuck it, with the world at large. My OBAA performance was not considered strongly competitive a few weeks ago, but now I’m going into the Oscars as the frontrunner at this point, dammit. For the wrong reasons, I mean.
“Sentimental Value‘s Stellan Skarsgard gave a much richer performance than I, but he can’t compete with the Greg Bovino factor. I’ll be winning thanks to you. I regard you as a macho fuckhead, but the situation is the situation.”
