Introducing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” the curtain-raiser at this year’s Lumière Film Festival in Lyon where he is guest of honor, Sean Penn gave an emotional speech about his friend, the film’s lead actor Jack Nicholson .

“I heard my name a lot tonight,” he said. “But I’ve been very comfortable with it in the sense that knowing “Cuckoo’s Nest” was going to play, there was no question I was going to be able to find great humility under the circumstances. One of the great, magic moments in my life in cinema was the first time I saw Jack Nicholson in Miloš Forman’s ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’”

“I was very privileged in so much as being able to have worked with Jack twice,” he continued. With both ‘The Pledge’ and ‘Crossing Guard,’ he was an angel on my shoulder and I s

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