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Feb 11 2013 12:56 PM ET

SEAL who shot bin Laden speaks: The 7 things 'Zero Dark Thirty' got wrong

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“They torture the sh– out of people in this movie, don’t they? Everyone is chained to something.”

That’s how the man who actually shot and killed Osama bin Laden reacted when he saw Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s Best Picture-nominated film about the search for al Qaeda’s founder. The shooter is the subject of a lengthy new profile in Esquire that explores how he’s adjusting to civilian life after leaving SEAL Team 6 — despite receiving no pension, healthcare, or extra protection for his family from the U.S. government or the military.

The whole thing, obviously, is worth reading. But naturally, we were most interested in what the shooter had to say about the “little stuff” Zero Dark Thirty got wrong — including:

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Dec 13 2012 12:53 PM ET

The wackiest quotes from Sean Penn's new 'Esquire' interview

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You know how some people grow soft in their old age? Yeah, Sean Penn isn’t one of them.

The intense actor gave an appropriately intense interview to Esquire for the magazine’s recent “Meaning of Life” issue, saying a lot of harsh stuff about his divorce from Robin Wright (“You sit there and you go, ‘What the f–k was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?’ Which is a fantastically strong humiliation”) and detailing his volunteer efforts in Haiti. The whole thing is fairly quotable, if not quite at the level of “Jude Law is one of our finest actors” — but these bon mots are particularly great:

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