MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Hollywood's Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn has visited Venezuela, where he met with the country's President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan media reported on Thursday.
According to media reports, Penn, an old-time Democratic supporter and a personal friend of U.S. President Barack Obama, arrived in Venezuela from Cuba, where according to earlier U.S. media reports, he planned to interview former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Penn met with Chavez in Venezuela's capital of Caracas and the two talked for more than two hours, mainly discussing a new movie, which the 59-year-old actor plans to film in the forests of southeastern Venezuela.
"Sean Penn told me he is very interested in making a movie and part of it would probably be filmed in Venezuela," Chavez said on Venezuelan television after meeting with the Hollywood star.
According to the Venezuelan leader, the film will be based on the novel The Lost Steps, written by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier in 1953. The novel is considered one of Carpentier's best-known works and is a first-person account of a character, who travels to the Orinoco jungle in search of the meaning of life and the origins of time.
Penn was in Cuba earlier in the week as a journalist for the Vanity Fair magazine to investigate how the Obama administration has affected Cuba.
