The CORE co-founder and Oscar-winning actor said that it is attendees and winners' 'moment to shine and to protest and to boycott the Academy Awards' if Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky wasn't invited.
if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wasn’t invited to appear virtually during the 94th annual ceremony on Sunday night., Penn — currently in Poland with his nonprofit CORE providing humanitarian relief — said that if the Academy has elected not to include the Ukrainian leader, who is in the midst of leading the country’s war effort against Russia, “that decision will have been the most obscene moment in all of Hollywood history.
Penn began his answer to Acosta by acknowledging those “who would say that politics are for another place, entertainment is for another,” with the actor saying this is a position that “sometimes has validity.” But for Penn, who confirmed he’d met yet again with Zelensky since returning to the region, the country’s president embodies “that kind of nature of poetic courage and expression that film aspires at its best to be.
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