Years: Career Grievances and Cologne Jokes

years: Penn aired his early career grievances on Twitter after he stumbled onto some scripts from his younger years, according to Hamilton Spectator. He wanted to avoid having to do accents, but casting directors would insist. But in the years leading up to his breakout, he, unlike most struggling actors, faced an added layer of difficulty most roles were stereotypical parts that entailed heavy accents and broken English. Tried to convince them to let me speak without an accent & make it funny on the merits was told no he tweeted. The parts entailed cologne jokes and profuse sweating, not to mention names like Ravi Tulu Singh Shankar Ramanji. He also said that when he was asked to make his accent more authentic, it usually meant they wanted Apu, as in the immigrant Kwik-E-Mart owner from The Simpsons. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.