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Penn leaves White House for more ‘Kumar’

Kal Penn’s reps confirm that the actor will leave his post as Barack Obama’s associate director of public engagement to return to his acting career.
/ Source: Entertainment Weekly

Who needs Washington when you can have White Castle?

Kal Penn’s reps confirm that the actor will leave his post as Barack Obama’s associate director of public engagement to return to his acting career.

First up for the actor: a new “Harold & Kumar” movie, this one with a Christmas theme. New Line Studios has confirmed that the movie, to be directed by newcomer Todd Strauss Schulson, will begin filming in late June with an eye on a holiday 2011 release. (Creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg are moving to Universal to direct “American Pie 4.”)

The studio, now a division of Warner Bros., is still deliberating whether it will be shot in 3-D.

Penn began his White House stint last year, shortly after his character on the television show “House” was abruptly killed off in April, per Penn’s request to join the Obama administration.