“I want to take you into my stories and I want you to experience them with the same joy that I’ve experienced them,” he said. School Allegedly Retaliates Against Florida Student for “Don’t Say Gay” Protest With regards his memoir, Penn said he wants readers to “feel like we’re having a beer together.”
“I have one day off from The White House and this dude is unironically watching cars go around and make left turns? Next thing you know, it’s been a couple months and we’re watching NASCAR every Sunday. “I thought, ‘This obviously is not going to work out,” Penn told People. Penn said that he met Josh while working in the Obama administration, after taking a break from acting to serve in the White House Office of Public Liaison focusing on Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and the arts.įor their first date, Penn said that Josh brought an 18-pack of Coors Light to his apartment and switched Penn’s TV to NASCAR. They don’t love attention and shy away from the limelight.” Penn said he has “always been very public with everybody I’ve personally interacted with,” but while he was “really excited” to share his relationship with Josh in his book, “Josh, my partner, my parents, and my brother, four people who I’m closest to in the family, are fairly quiet.