¡Ay, caramba! Sean Penn left Cuban search for Castro to meet Hugo Chavez in Venezuela

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7:23 am, October 29th, 2009

Sean Penn left his search for Fidel Castro in Cuba to meet with the equally controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

Chavez told the nation’s television station that during a meeting with Penn yesterday the Oscar winner said he “was very interested in a film project … that would most likely be shot in part in Venezuela.”

Chavez, who called Penn a “friend of just causes,” said the actor wants to shoot a film based on the 1953 novel “The Lost Steps” by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier. Much of the novel’s plot takes place in the forests of Venezuela.

This was the second time Penn has met with Chavez. Back in 2007, Penn traveled to Venezuela as a freelance journalist.

Gossip Cop can only imagine where Penn will pop up next.

 

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