Sean Penn call for Zelenskyy speech at Oscars
27 March 2022 |
3:12 pm
Speaking to CNN, actor Sean Penn said the Ukrainian president should be invited to speak about the war at the Academy Awards and it would be "obscene" if Hollywood did not oblige.
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