Actor vows to melt down statuettes if Ukrainian president is not offered a platform at Sunday’s ceremony
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Sean Penn has described any potential lack of backing by the Academy Awards for the Ukrainian people as “the most obscene moment in all of Hollywood history”.
Speaking on CNN, Penn, who has been in Ukraine and Poland making a documentary about their plight of refugees, vowed to publicly melt down his Oscar statuettes if the awards body declined to offer the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a platform at Sunday night’s event.
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