Sean Penn thought he faced certain death when a crazed gunman took him hostage at gunpoint, using him as a human shield as he dragged him out of a police station in 1998. He pleaded, Dont shoot! Its all right, man. Calm down. When the gunman finally pushed Penn out the door, the terrified star was cruelly shot - not with a pistol, but by a camera wielded by practical joker Woody Harrelson, his co-star in The Thin Red Line - revealing the episode was a cruel hoax. Studio boss Mike Medavoy writes in behind-the-scenes book, Youre Only As Good As Your Next One, Woody snapped a picture of Sean Penn scared stiff. But Medavoy notes that Penn got the last laugh when he asked Harrelson to go to a party with him. After driving 40 miles (64 kilometres) into the rustic outback of Australia, where their movie was being filmed, Penn pretended to get stuck and Harrelson got out to push. Medavoy says, Sean slammed it into four-wheel drive and literally left Woody in the dust, stranded, in the middle of the night, with no food, no water and no way home except on foot. Woody was eventually picked up by an extra on his way to work. imdb/news/ni0062477/
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 00:15:55 +0000