Sean Penn had huge praise for his embattled buddy, Hunter Biden , in a new interview with The New York Times.

During a wide-ranging conversation with reporter Maureen Dowd , the actor showed off a painting by Hunter Biden which was on prominent display in his Malibu home.

In Dowds article, she described the piece, titled The Map, as an image of the black outline of a head with colorful, detailed brushstrokes all around it.

Penn said the painting, which was a personal gift from president Joe Biden s son, was made while the attorney-turned-artist was trying to put the pieces of his life back together amid his struggles with drug and alcohol abuse.

Hunter Biden was recently convicted of three felonies related to lying about his drug use on a 2018 application to purchase a gun.

Elsewhere in the interview, Penn called his friend a very, very insightful guy, revealing that Hunter Biden had visited the Milk stars home with wife Melissa Biden and their son, Beau, just the night prior.