Sean Penn threatens to destroy Oscars if Zelenksyy not invited to Academy Awards
'I will smelt [my Oscar awards] in public,' Penn says
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Actor Sean Penn threatened to "smelt" his Oscars if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy isn’t asked to speak at the Academy Awards.
"If it comes back to it, I will smelt [my Oscar awards] in public," Penn told CNN on Saturday afternoon. "I pray that’s not what’s happened. I pray there have not been arrogant people, who consider themselves representatives of the greater good in my industry, that have [decided against checking] with leadership in Ukraine. So I’m just going to hope that that’s not what’s happened. I hope [every attendee] walks out if it is."
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Sean Penn discussed masculinity in American culture. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
The 94th Academy Awards will be held Sunday evening. Penn said "it is my understanding that a decision has been made not" to invite Zelenksyy to speak.
"If the [Academy has] elected not to pursue the leadership in Ukraine, who are taking bullets and bombs for us, along with the Ukrainian children that they are trying to protect, then I think every single one of those people and every bit of that decision will have been the most obscene moment in all of Hollywood history," he said.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Penn has previously won two Oscars for his performances in 2003's "Mystic River" and 2008's "Milk." Penn met with Zelenskyy in Ukraine last month while filming a documentary in the country.
Actor and director Sean Penn attends a press briefing at the Presidential Office in Kyiv, Ukraine February 24, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS )
Oscars co-host Amy Schumer revealed this month that she floated event organizers find "a way to have Zelenskyy satellite in or make a tape" for the ceremony.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"I am not afraid to go there, but it’s not me producing the Oscars," Schumer explained on Drew Barrymore’s daytime talk show last week.