Sean Penn Inspired Courtney Love to Get Back Into Acting

Sean Penn makes his way through the airport on Monday (July 13) in Paris, France.

Courtney Love recently revealed that the 54-year-old actor’s performance in 2011′s This Must Be the Place was the inspiration for her to get back into acting.

“I’ve really turned the corner in the past three or four years,” she wrote in an essay for Harper’s Bazaar. “It began when I decided to get back into acting, and to do that you need to look as good as you can – even if you’re aging.”

“I always think that if I were a guy, I would be Sean,” she said. “He’s like my male doppelgänger.”