Like in a film, but this time the images portray reality: the protagonist is Sean Penn, but this is not one of the many actor-like takes that the audience has accustomed to. The American actor who in recent days had entered Ukraine to film a documentary left the country on foot due to the intensification of the conflict. The Oscar-winning actor for Milk posted a photo of him as, with a backpack on his shoulder, he drags a trolley along the edge of a highway clogged with cars, with people fleeing towards the Polish border.
“My colleagues and I walked miles to the border after dropping our car on the road,” Penn wrote, “most cars have women and children on board, with no signs of baggage, and that car is their only valuable asset. “
The actor has been working since last November on a documentary dedicated to the worsening of tensions between Russia and Ukraine. He had arrived in Kyiv shortly before Moscow forces invaded the country.
