{"id":15381,"date":"2022-11-10T07:27:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T07:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/10\/sean-penn-loans-oscar-statuette-to-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-national\/"},"modified":"2022-11-10T07:27:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T07:27:35","slug":"sean-penn-loans-oscar-statuette-to-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/10\/sean-penn-loans-oscar-statuette-to-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Penn loans Oscar statuette to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>In a grand, symbolic gesture, American actor <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/sean-penn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Penn<\/a> introduced his Oscar statuette to <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/Ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrainian<\/a> President <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/volodymyr-zelenskyy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> throughout a latest assembly in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a video of the assembly posted to Zelenskyy\u2019s Instagram account on Tuesday, Penn revealed the statuette to the president and insisted he take the coveted prize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel terrible,\u201d stated Penn, 62. \u201cIt\u2019s just a symbolic silly thing, but if I know this is here with you then I\u2019ll feel better and stronger for the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"readmore\">\n<p class=\"c-readmore\" id=\"recirc_test_read_more\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\"><strong>Read extra: <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9257539\/aaron-carter-death-nick-carter-brother-backstreet-boys-concert-tribute\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"Aaron Carter death: Nick Carter wipes away tears during Backstreet Boys tribute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tAaron Carter dying: Nick Carter wipes away tears throughout Backstreet Boys tribute\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<section id=\"recirc_test_inline_stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile is-hidden l-inlineStories--abTest\" aria-label=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Read More<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline\">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9257539\/aaron-carter-death-nick-carter-brother-backstreet-boys-concert-tribute\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Untitled-design-56.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" data-title=\"\">Aaron Carter dying: Nick Carter wipes away tears throughout Backstreet Boys tribute<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues beneath commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen you win, bring it back to Malibu, because I\u2019ll feel much better knowing there\u2019s a piece of me here,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>This was Penn\u2019s third journey to Ukraine since Russia invaded the nation in February. He has been a vocal advocate for Ukraine and a staunch supporter of Zelenskyy for the reason that begin of the warfare.<\/p>\n<p>In his Instagram caption, Zelenskyy known as the Oscars statuette \u201ca symbol of faith in the victory of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Penn has two Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role from <em>Mystic River<\/em> in 2003 and <em>Milk<\/em> in 2008.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tHollywood actor and movie director Sean Penn (R) meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) as he arms over his personal Oscar statuette to the Ukrainian president in Kyiv, Ukraine on Nov. 8.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tUkrainian Presidency \/ Handout\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zelenskyy additionally introduced Penn Ukraine\u2019s Order of Merit. 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Though Zelenskyy didn&#8217;t converse on the occasion (and Penn didn&#8217;t destroy his statuettes), the Ukrainian president gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-addresses-2022-grammys-in-pre-taped-statement-181567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a> at this yr\u2019s Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>In his pre-taped handle, Zelenskyy urged entertainers and viewers at residence to discuss the Russia-Ukraine invasion and fill the silence of warfare with music.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2022 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;appId=318812448281278&#038;version=v3.3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In a grand, symbolic gesture, American actor Sean Penn introduced his Oscar statuette to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy throughout a latest assembly in Kyiv. In a video of the assembly posted to Zelenskyy\u2019s Instagram account on Tuesday, Penn revealed the statuette to the president and insisted he take the coveted prize. \u201cI feel terrible,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}