The New York Post reports Sean Penn really wanted to get it on in Gus Van Sant's biopic "Milk." The film's namesake, Harvey Bernard Milk, was the first openly gay (emphasis on "openly") American politician to be elected to public office. We assume Penn was making this choice for artistic reasons, but as always the Post could not avoid its own spin.
The New York Post seems to have painted James Franco as slightly homophobic and Sean Penn as looking for a little more action:
JAMES Franco says Sean Penn pushed the gay sex scenes in "Milk" further than he expected. "In the original script I read, there was only one real kissing scene," Franco tells next month's Elle. "A month after [director] Gus [Van Sant] asked me to do it, they sent me another script, and on Page 5 there was a full-on love scene. And I was like, 'Gus, what the heck?' He says, 'Well, it was Sean's idea.' "
Actually, we could probably use a couple more amped up mainstream movie gay sex scenes with males. "Brokeback Mountain" feels a little too Village People-ish to us in retrospect, despite it's non-disco theme song (which still gets stuck in our head all too often upon seeing men in Stetsons).
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