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Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

545: Sean Penn Talks Music

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Arts, Tv & Film

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Our latest guest on Soundtracking is the legend that is Sean Penn, who joins us to discuss his role in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. Also starring Leonardo Di Caprio, Regina King and former Soundtracking guest, Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another tells the story of an ex-revolutionary who must rescue his daughter from a corrupt military official, played by Sean. We discuss his stellar performance, but also how important music has been to him in his own filmmaking.

Transcript

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Yeah, I'm one of their biggest fans. I've got all the vinyl. First saw them at a tiny little place in Camden. Then as festival headliners a few years back. Now that was special. So there's no chance I'd miss their world tour in London, Lisbon and LA. Good thing I've been saving.

0:19.9

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0:27.3

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0:37.6

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0:43.0

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0:47.4

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0:51.8

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0:55.6

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0:59.3

Hello friends.

1:00.4

How are you?

1:01.1

So that was a word like whispery, whimsical thing.

1:04.8

I don't know why I did it like that.

1:06.2

But anyway, hi.

1:07.6

How do I find you?

1:08.9

Well, I hope.

1:10.1

Shall I paint the picture of what I'm doing? I've just sent my 12-year-old

1:14.7

upstairs to brush his teeth. It is Sunday evening in the Bowman Smith household, and everybody

1:20.6

can't quite believe that it's Sunday already, and we're about to jump into another week. But I've

1:24.5

escaped for a few minutes to share the introduction for a brand new

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