Superpower director Sean Penn isn’t mincing words in his denunciation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two-time Oscar-winning actor, whose new documentary about the war in Ukraine is now st…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images what Zelensky brings to the party,” he insisted. “It is what we saw when he spoke at the UN [Tuesday].”
“I thought after the kind of throwing yourself around the world in harsh places, this would be kind of a lighthearted tale,” Penn recalled with a touch of irony. “Maybe that’s what I was in the mood to do at that time, and it wouldn’t be a heavy lift because I had carpentry projects I wanted to finish around my house. I didn’t want to spend all my time doing it. And then it turned into something, on its own, much more.
“All of these young faces that we would’ve seen in a kind of soft posture the day before are now likely going to face imminent battle for their lives,” Penn said. “And so walking through there — all the lights are very low, everything is shut down — and seeing these faces, these hundreds of soldiers in the hallways, young faces pondering how the world just changed and that they’re at the front of it… I was terrified for them. The courage was so extreme.
On Friday, Pres. Zelenskyy headed north to Canada, where he addressed the Canadian parliament. “Moscow must lose once and for all,” he told members of parliament. “And it will lose.” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy denied Zelenskyy an opportunity to address a joint session of Congress.
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