Dylan Penn is the daughter of Hollywood star Sean Penn. The actor stars in her father’s directorial ‘Flag Day’ released on august 20. Interestingly, she never wanted to be an actor and had rejected the idea most of her life. 

In a 2014 interview with Treats! Magazine, she said, “I’m trying out this whole acting thing…it’s hard to say for me because I’ve rejected it my whole life until now. I literally can’t say it without laughing.”

In a recent interview with Newsweek, Sean Penn opened up about how reluctant Dylan was about doing the film and said, “There was no concept of the movie” that he was able to consider doing without his daughter being in it, but “she was very reluctant.”

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“She was reluctant to, she didn’t know that she wanted to act and so on. And so it took some time, it wasn’t until you know, she felt ready and wanted to try them,” he added. After taking the film, Dylan knew she could trust her dad. “It just solidified what I already knew that I could trust my dad with anything and everything.”

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She continued, “I think for me as an actor, this is new territory for me and just knowing that I could fail miserably or fall on my face and he [Sean Penn] would be there for me to get right back up was rewarding.”

She later revealed that it was her mom who pushed her to do the film, telling her that working with her father had been one of her best experiences and that it would be a mistake to pass this up. 

Dylan Penn was born on April 13, 1991. She dropped out of college, according to IMDb. In a 2017 interview with The Daily Beast, she admitted, “I dropped out of USC after a semester, and my parents told me I was financially cut off. So, my godfather owns a pizza place in Westwood by UCLA and offered me a job. And I delivered pizzas.” The 30-year-old once also revealed that directing is what she wanted to do in her life and that modelling was not her passion.