Diplo was blown away watching Sean Penn act within the music video for Use Me (Brutal Hearts).
Final month, the music producer launched the music video for his collaboration with Dove Cameron and nation music singer Sturgill Simpson, and it featured Penn lip-syncing to Simpson’s vocals in a membership.
Diplo later revealed that Penn stepped in after the actor initially solid as Simpson dropped out the night time earlier than the shoot, and in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he praised the Oscar winner’s appearing expertise.
“He by no means did a video, and he cherished the track, and he got here in there, man,” the DJ recalled. “He was getting there early on the video set, getting in character, smoking cigarettes. I do know actors, however I’ve by no means actually seen somebody actually act. He blew me away.”
The 44-year-old, actual identify Thomas Wesley Pentz, defined that he and Penn are neighbours in Malibu, California and he textual content the Mystic River star to see if he might assist out.
“I simply hit him up, man… I used to be like, ‘Perhaps Sean will do it,'” he shared. “You meet folks on a regular basis, and also you’re at all times in Hollywood, and textual content with them, and I do not assume all people’s ever, will do one thing like what he did for me. However he did that for me. There’s some coronary heart and a few soul and a few love right here in LA.”
Use Me (Brutal Hearts) seems on the album, Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley, Chapter 2: Swamp Savant, which was launched in late April.