Maria Conchita Alonso Slams "Communist" Sean Penn
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Seeing red!
Cuban-born, Venezuelan-raised actress Maria Conchita Alonso hasn't held back with former costar Sean Penn -- publicly sparring with the outspoken star for his political views.
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In 2010, the 54-year-old actress wrote an open letter bashing Penn (with whom she costarred in the 1988 film Colors) for his support of socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. (Penn, 51, praised Chavez for his help in Haiti during an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. He also met privately with Chavez in Venezuela in 2007.)
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On Sunday, the former costars had a screaming match at LAX Airport. She later revealed in a radio interview to WMAL, "I said, 'You are a communist, Sean Penn.' He said, 'You are a pig!' So I said, 'And you are a communist a**hole! Is it great to live the way you do as a communist?
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Alonso admitted to WMAL she wanted to apologize "for calling Sean Penn an a**hole. He is an intelligent man."
"But if someone calls me a pig, I am not going to turn the other cheek," she said. "But I don't regret calling him a communist.
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10Listen, I know more about Maria Conchita than this particular incident and I stick by my previous statement. I also think Sean Penn is an a**hole, so I'll go ahead and put that 'blanket statement' out there. "Read a book or something" is a pretty creative insult though, so kudos to that!
georgia angelo, you are a moron to make a blanket statement about someone elses personal experiences and discount them. read a book or something
Maria Conchita knows how is to live in a communist country her mom left Cuba to Venezuela because of that...so she has the right to talk about what 's going on in her native country..we don't want Venezuela to become another Cuba...and for the person that said that the education in Cuba works I will STRONGLY suggest her to go to Cuba a live there for 6 months and then you can say that their education system works.
I am not a friend of Maria Conchita Alonso...I admired Sean Penn's talent once thing is to help Haiti and a completely different thing is to praise a murderer like hugo chavez...I respect the right of people to follow their own beliefs...but Penn doesn't know what's really happpening in Venezuela...
Elsa, theres a reason why Communism doesn't work. Look to the fall of Russia and then come back. If you seriously don't believe democracy is the best system, gotta wonder..btw Sean Penn is never ever right. Not only is he a hypocrite, he is a self righters one at that.
She's a moron.
being a communist is not bad...i went to Cuba...was impressed with what i saw... the education system is better...everybody gets dental and their sports teams are great... not one system is perfect but if South America is going to escape from poverty ...they need to stop depending on America...America is the wicked aunt... so Sean is right and Maria you are hispanic...do you not want your people to live better...i am Colombian and i can see communism helping than hindering...look around us... the americans do not help...and it is ginorance and fear that people are scared of...they need to be educated
I agree. I will not spend a dime on any movie he has a part in. It is loudmouthed rice boys like himself who thinks those of us in the real world care about his opinions. Not to mention he is ugly as hell! If he hates the U.S. so bad why not move to Venezula, I am sure his friend Hugo could get him a great deal on a shack to live in
GOOD for her! He IS a communist!
GOOD for her! He IS a communist!