Charlie Sheen made awful homemade movies with the Penn brothers.

The Platoon actor, 60, grew close to actors Sean Penn and his sibling Chris Penn as they lived near each other in Malibu, and has now opened up about how they made terrible attempts at making films together as they grew up.

Charlie said in conversation with David Duchovny, 65, at the 92nd Street Y in New York on 8 September to promote his memoir The Book of Sheen, the Penn brothers had a huge influence on his early years, adding: “We just found it as a way to just kind of emulate, mimic, copy what our parents were doing. The two houses that it kind of bounced between – Casa Penn and our place – is really where that all happened.”

The son of actors Martin Sheen and Janet Sheen, Charlie remembered how his and the Penn famili

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