Sean Penn calls on Hollywood to boycott the 2022 Oscars if the show elects not to invite Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to speak.
Sean Penn has publicly called for a boycott of this year's Academy Awards if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not permitted to speak. The 61-year-old echoes the sentiment of Amy Schumer, one of the hosts at this year's awards ceremony, who said that she had pitched the idea of featuring Zelenskyy to the show's producers.
There are those – and I think it sometimes has validity – who would say that politics are for another place, entertainment is for another. I believe that anyone, as an audience or a practitioner of film, that understands what that expression is, that to restrict it to just film is to say it can’t be on television and it can’t be on the stage.
Now, it is my understanding that a decision has been made not to do it. That is not me commenting on whether President Zelenskyy had wanted to.
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