{"id":1403187,"date":"2022-03-27T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403187"},"modified":"2022-03-27T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T19:29:53","slug":"sean-penn-threatens-to-smelt-his-own-oscars-if-academy-nixes-zelensky-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sean-penn-threatens-to-smelt-his-own-oscars-if-academy-nixes-zelensky-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Penn Threatens To \u2018Smelt\u2019 His Own Oscars If Academy Nixes Zelensky Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsean-penn-threatens-to-smelt-his-own-oscars-if-academy-nixes-zelensky-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403187&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1387329448.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Actor and director Sean Penn said Saturday that if the Academy Awards planners said no to a virtual appearance by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, people should consider boycotting the awards show altogether.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance with CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta, Penn \u2014 who is currently in Warsaw, Poland \u2014 said that if producers turned down the chance to have Zelensky appear, it would be \u201cthe most obscene moment in all of Hollywood history,\u201d and he promised to \u201csmelt\u201d his own Oscars in public if that was what it took to drive the point home.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ICYMI: Actor Sean Penn says the Oscars should be boycotted if the ceremony\u2019s planners have decided against having Zelensky on the program. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4LI2YIiKcD\">pic.twitter.com\/4LI2YIiKcD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/1507832177324605442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Penn began by saying that he was not speaking to whether or not Zelensky wanted to make such an appearance, only that he had heard event planners and producers had already decided not to allow it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, it is my understanding that a decision has been made not to do it,\u201d Penn told Acosta. \u201cThat is not me commenting on whether or not President Zelensky had wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Academy has elected not to do it, if presenters have elected not to pursue the leadership in Ukraine, who are taking bullets and bombs for us, along with the Ukrainian children that they\u2019re 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, and I hope that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening,\u201d Penn continued.<\/p>\n<p>Penn went on to suggest that nominees should boycott the ceremony, arguing that what was happening in Ukraine superseded their \u201cmoment to shine\u201d on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it turns out to be what\u2019s happening, I would encourage everyone involved to know that though it may be their moment, and I understand that, to celebrate their films, it is so much more importantly their moment to shine and to protest and to boycott that Academy Awards,\u201d Penn said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I myself, if it comes back to it, I \u2014 when I return, I will smelt mine in public,\u201d Penn added. \u201cI pray that\u2019s not what\u2019s happened. I pray that there have not been arrogant people who consider themselves representatives of the greater good in my industry that have not decided to check in with leadership in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m just going to hope that\u2019s not what\u2019s happened,\u201d Penn concluded, \u201cAnd I hope that everybody walks out if it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Penn was not alone in his hope that the Oscars would give at least a virtual nod to Zelensky \u2014 cohost and comedian Amy Schumer told actress Drew Barrymore last week that she had actually pitched a call-in from the Ukrainian President during the awards show\u2019s broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/oscars-co-host-amy-schumer-just-wants-one-guest-to-make-a-cameo\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>She then told Barrymore that she had already pitched the idea, but that the show\u2019s producers had turned her down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually pitched, I wanted to find a way to have Zelensky like satellite in or make a tape or something just because so many eyes get on \u2014 there are so many eyes on the Oscars.\u00a0I am not afraid to go there, but it\u2019s not me producing the Oscars,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I love you,\u201d Barrymore replied.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Penn has been in Poland since fleeing Ukraine amid the Russian invasion, saying that at one point he and a colleague had <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/sean-penn-abandoned-his-car-walking-miles-to-the-polish-border-to-escape-russian-invasion\/\">abandoned his car<\/a> and journeyed the last several miles to the Polish border on foot. He was in Kyiv <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/actor-sean-penn-is-in-ukraine-filming-a-russian-invasion-documentary-as-it-unfolds\/\">working on a documentary<\/a> about the Russian invasion when encroaching Russian occupation troops forced him to flee the country.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and director Sean Penn said Saturday that if the Academy Awards planners said no to a virtual appearance by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, people should consider boycotting the awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}