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America Age > Blog > Entertainment > Sean Penn says he will ‘smelt’ his Oscars ‘in public’ if President Zelensky is not invited to appear at Academy Awards
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Sean Penn says he will ‘smelt’ his Oscars ‘in public’ if President Zelensky is not invited to appear at Academy Awards

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Sean Penn appeared on CNN and said that the Oscars must allow Ukraine's President Zelensky to speak. (Photo: Darek Puchala/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Sean Penn appeared on CNN and said that the Oscars must allow Ukraine’s President Zelensky to speak. (Photo: Darek Puchala/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Sean Penn has a message for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences ahead of the 2022 Oscars.

The actor, who is currently filming a documentary about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, spoke to CNN’s Jim Acosta on Saturday, March 26, in which he shared his thoughts on the rumors that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky would make a virtual appearance at the awards ceremony. Zelensky was an actor before turning to politics, and starred as the fictional president of his country on the sitcom Servant of the People before he took office in real life.

Penn, who took home the awards for Best Actor for the films Mystic River and Milk, told Acosta that the Oscars must have Zelensky on the program — otherwise, viewers and guests should boycott the ceremony.

“If it turns out to be what is happening…when I return, I will smelt mine in public,” Penn said.

Penn is currently in Warsaw, Poland, where he fled following the violence in Ukraine.

It is unclear if Zelensky will appear at the Oscars in some capacity, however, co-host Amy Schumer said on The Drew Barrymore Show that she wanted the Ukrainian president to participate and was turned down by the organizers.

“I wanted to find a way to have Zelensky satellite in or make a tape or something, just because there are so many eyes on the Oscars,” Schumer said. “I think it’s a great opportunity to at least comment on a couple of things. I have some jokes that kind of highlight the sort of current condition.”

However, The New York Post claimed on Friday, March 25 that Zelensky is “in talks” with the Academy on whether he will make an appearance.

Penn previously spoke to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about what he hopes the United States will do in light of the continuing conflict.

“[Ukrainians] are fighting for their lives, and will continue to fight for their lives, and I feel that we as Americans are plummeting off a cliff — the top of which is our flag which represents all of our dreams and the best of our dreams,” he explained at the time. “We’re plummeting where it will go out of our sight. I don’t know the answers. I don’t know if ‘no fly zones’ will create a nuclear war. I do know that we have to invest everything that we have to support the Ukrainian people, and support President Zelensky, or we will not have a memory of what America used to be.”

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