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Actress Maria Conchita Alonso Calls Sean Penn A ‘Communist A**Hole’ After He Calls Her A Pig

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Cuban-born, Venezuelan-raised actress Maria Conchita Alonso has a history of taking fellow actor Sean Penn to task over his habit of voicing support for politicians often accused of limiting personal freedoms and controlling the media within their respective counties.

You may recall that, back in March of 2010, Alonso wrote an open letter to Penn after an interview he conducted praising Chavez. She attempted to share some facts with Penn regarding Chavez and his impact on Venezuela, a goal she’s also worked towards through various appearances on cable news programs.

RELATED: Open Letter to Sean Penn: Actress Confronts Actor On Hugo Chavez

Now, Alonso is sharing what happened when she approached Penn for the first time since writing him that letter.

While waiting for her mother’s luggage at an airport baggage carousel, she discovered that Penn was standing no more than ten feet away from her, also waiting for his bags. After some hesitation, she decided to approach Penn, civilly, and open up a discussion about Chavez.

She recalled that Penn was decidedly not open to speaking with her, and that he eventually began launching accusations against her brother, alleging that he is trying to aid in Chavez’s assassination.

Things grew even more heated, with Alonso telling Penn that, if he supports Chavez, he must also be in favor of Ahmadinejad. Penn grew incensed and called Alonso a “pig,” which prompted her to inform the actor that he is a “communist asshole.”

She does say, for the record, that she regrets having stooped to that level.

Have a listen to Alonso as she tells radio station WMAL exactly what happened that day at the baggage carousel:

h/t NewsBusters

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  • Gloves E. Donahue

    Bueno, Maria.

    Penn es un imbecil.

  • Anonymous

    First Hopper, now this.  Why is the world conspiring against a sequel to Colors?

  • Anonymous

    Colors…colors…colors….colors!  

  • Anonymous

    Sweet Maria Conchita smacks down creepy commie punk Sean Penn. Good for her.

  • Anonymous

    It would be easier if these two, would simply get a room and talk it through…

  • Anonymous

    She has got to be one of the most beautiful women on this planet.

  • Anonymous

    Not by a long-shot,but still,she’s pretty hot.

  • expatpatriot

    Can’t imagine why Penn would object to someone he barely knows ambushing him in an airport to “open up a discussion” after he made it clear he was not “decidedly not open to speaking to her.”

    Penn is often a bit of a jerk, but Conchita Alonso was also acting piggishly.

  • Anonymous

    You attack commie-jerks where ever you find them…good for her, she punked his sorry-ass!

  • david r

    Muy bien dicho.

  • david r

    Penn is an astounding actor, but he was a slacker who never went to college.  He has fallen into the hip-trip liberalism of Hollywood.  He did a lot of good in Haiti, and I applaud him for that, but Chavez is a dictator no less autocratic than Kim Jong Il.  The only people impressed by his support of Chavez are Chavez and dozens of soft-headed Hollywood liberals.  All that said, he is one of my half-dozen favorite actors.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Dictatorships are okay to visit when you’re hosted by the “president” have 18 zillion dollars and can leave anytime you want. Penn is a privileged bitch. The fact that he acts as if he’s so compassionate for the poor yet cannot imagine what it’s like to live poor in a lawless shanty town in a dictatorship makes him a bitch. Penn has more “rights” when he visits Venezuela than a Venezuelan. If he had the rebel balls he pretends to have he’d stage a strike in a shanty town. Problem is that only in movies do you survive killing wounds from bullets. Anyway there’s all the “heroic” roles Penn has done so he should probably get the Medal of Honor. I don’t know if there’s a medal for being a stupid prick.

  • Anonymous

    And Saddam Penn is one of the ugliest men in the world. Inside and out.

  • Anonymous

    Have you noticed, the older he gets the closer his nose comes to touching his chin? Kind of like the Pinocchio affect.

  • Anonymous

    I agree, as an actor he is great, it’s the rest of his life that sucks.

  • Anonymous

    Reminds me of the idiots who wear Che Guevara tea-shirts, and idolize that scumbag without ever investigating his background.

  • Pablo

    Someone he barely knows who costarred in Colors with him?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DNMVQZCXFQTDIGILG354Q727YY Roma Victor

    You don’t really seem on your game unless you’re waxing poetic about Sarah Palin.

  • http://profiles.google.com/anonymoususr . .

    Maria, eres una calabaza y siempre lo has sido. Deja de acosar a Penn.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lewis.reagan Lewis Reagan

    A porn star calls Penn a commie and this is news?

  • expatpatriot

    Would you prefer “someone he worked with once”?

  • Anonymous

    Venezuela, has had shanty towns and healthy oil production long before 1999 and Hugo Chavez was elected president. And what did the ruling party do with all that oil money? Spend it on the country…… No. So when Hugo Chavez took the presidency he changed the terms of the oil contracts with the multi- nationals, banks and large land owners to spend the money on raising the living standards of the poor. that pissed off the people like Maria and the bankers in NYC and Oil men in Houston and their god given right to Venezuela’s natural resources.. So Chavez is public enemy number one……sure there are still poor people and violence, look at brazil or or the US and ask the poor has their access to education, healthcare and a voice in government increased in the past 10 years? In Venezuela it has.

  • david r

    Eres muy tonto.

  • Anonymous

    Good on you Maria!

  • Anonymous

    Agree on the face, why do people do that to themselves.

  • Anonymous

    Not any longer.  She should have stayed away from the knife. 

  • Anonymous

    Si, no hay ninguna diferencia entre el y Jane Fonda o Che Guevara.

  • expatpatriot

    I don’t think it’s “poetic” that Stoney is waxing, if you get my drift.

  • expatpatriot

    Dang! Two comments in a row (yours and david r’s) that I agree with totally.

    Must be the phases of the moon.

    Penn gives bleeding-heart Hollywood limousine liberals a bad name.

    Don’t get me wrong: bleeding-heart Hollywood limousine liberals are generally a good thing because of the positive influence they have over their fans, and because many of them are not morons.

    But, most being actors, they often don’t recognise when they’re out of their competence zones. I’ve noticed actors are most vulnerable to overstepping after they’ve played a president (in a drama — playing the president in a comedy doesn’t seem to have the same effect).

    And I’m very curious to see what happens to Meryl Streep now that she’s played Thatcher.

  • expatpatriot

    It just goes to show that gross injustice and bad government breed . . . more gross injustice and bad government. Chavez is a populist fraud, hoping to ride populism into his preferred gig: El Jefe of all Latin America.

    But I think fate may have other plans for him.

  • Anonymous

    …Pressure of the entertainment business and/or loss of perspective.

    The features have changed and not particularly gracefully.

  • Anonymous

    Even porn stars are more patriotic than Sean Penn.

  • Anonymous

    Why then did he clamp down on freedom of their press, if he was doing so much good for the country why wouldn’t the free press towt his successes. Over there when they say ” got milk ” their not kidding, get over it, the guys a dictator.

  • Ben

    you’re probably right about that

  • Anonymous

    Twenty Years ago she was hot today Sean Penn is right SHE IS A PIG!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    is she doing any volunteer service

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    It pissed off actors? And what are you saying about NYC bankers and Houston oil men? They’re on a campaign to discredit Chavez using propaganda? What the hell do those people have to do with anything? Apparently making men look like Public Enemy No.1.

    The economy is shrinking and inflation was 30% last year – crime is much worse than 10 years ago. And if Penn went to Venezuela before Chavez and said the same nonsense he’d still be a stupid prick.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Yeah well, he’d have a little country called Brazil in the way, bigger than the 48 states.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    But not compared to Penn. And Penn has always been an asshole so he loses on semantics.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    I’ve always thought it was made of wax and he put it too close to a flame.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    I’m pretty sure you don’t have to qualify that remark as “anywhere” would pretty much cover it since the Crab Nebula disintegrated, along with it’s women, a million years ago. The light just hasn’t reached us but my friend ksdu told me.

  • Anonymous

    If you include, “over an extended period of time”. But then, a couple of days spent listening to his idiotic trash would pretty much piss off anyone who can think for themselves.

  • Anonymous

    Maria is 54 years old, and she still puts some 20 year old’s to shame.

  • Anonymous

    Chavaz is a dictator that believes in giving a large junk of oil profits back to his people.That is not the type of dictator the US likes.If our past is any indicator,our CIA will either start a coup,revolution,or will assassinate him.

  • expatpatriot

    And Hitler gobbled up most of Europe and a bit of Eurasia from little ol’ Germany. Chavez is a very ambitious guy.

    However, as I suggested, I think his health is going to be an increasingly significant factor.

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    I’m a wacky ole lib, and I enjoy Sean’s movie acting/making, but outside of that he’s always seemed like a prick to me. Anyway, no real comment about the spat since it’s a pretty tabloid-ish story, but the thing that strikes me the most is how different Maria looks now compared to the old days! What I mean to say is she doesn’t look like an older version of her younger self… at all!

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