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Sean Penn has had a meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, discussing a possible movie about an American anthropologist.
Chavez said the pair met privately and discussed making a movie out of the 1953 novel The Lost Steps by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier. The book tells the tale of an American composer and anthropologist who journeyed into the jungle.
Actor/director Penn arrived in Venezuela from Cuba, where he had gone as a journalist to reportedly seek an interview with ailing Fidel Castro, 83, for Vanity Fair magazine.
Chavez said the pair discussed politics and Penn told him he would soon have a meeting with US President Barack Obama. Chavez said he had asked Penn to tell Obama he should take action to earn his Nobel peace prize and halt plans for the US military to increase its presence at Colombian bases.
“They gave him the Nobel Prize – very well, now he should earn it,” Chavez told The Associated Press.
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