Actor and activist Sean Penn on Saturday vowed to destroy his Academy Awards in public if the award ceremony chooses to not give Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a platform to talk.

Zelensky has reportedly been in talks with the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences to make a video look throughout Sunday's broadcast of the Oscars, the New York Submit reported Friday. Nevertheless, awards co-host Amy Schumer stated in an interview final week that her request to have Zelensky deal with the nation in the course of the present was rejected by producers.

Penn, who's filming a documentary about Russia's invasion in Ukraine and dealing to provide humanitarian help to Ukrainian refugees in Poland and Romania, informed CNN on Saturday he can be gravely disenchanted if the Academy denies the Ukrainian chief the chance to talk. Penn has gained two Academy Awards within the Finest Actor class for the movies Mystic River and Milk.

"There's nothing better that the Academy Awards might do than to offer him that chance to speak to all of us," Penn stated.

"It's my understanding that a determination has been made to not do it," Penn added, whereas noting that he's not sure what Zelensky's place on the matter is. "If the Academy has elected to not do, if presenters have elected to not pursue the management in Ukraine which are taking bullets and bombs for us... then I feel each single a kind of folks, and each little bit of that call, could have been probably the most obscene second in all of Hollywood historical past."

If that's the case, Penn added, he would encourage everybody concerned within the awards to protest and boycott the ceremony.

"I personally – if it comes again to it – after I return, I'll smelt mine in public. I pray that is not what's occurred," he stated. "I pray there haven't been boastful individuals who contemplate themselves representatives of the better good who've determined to not test in with management in Ukraine."

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Sean Penn stated Saturday that he'll destroy his Academy Awards if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky just isn't given an opportunity to talk in the course of the ceremony. Right here, Penn speaks throughout a press convention on March 23, 2022 in Krakow, Poland. Omar Marques/Getty Photos

It's unclear whether or not or not Zelensky was invited to make an look in the course of the award ceremony, or if he has expressed curious about doing so. Nevertheless, this yr's present, which is able to happen on Sunday, March 27, is anticipated to be rife with mentions of the continuing warfare.

Ukrainian-born actress Mila Kunis, who helped increase $35 million for Ukrainian refugees alongside her husband, Ashton Kutcher, will reportedly make an announcement in the course of the ceremony, The Submit reported.

Schumer, who will host the ceremony alongside Wanda Sykes and Regina Corridor, additionally stated final week that she can be conscious of present affairs as there are "so many eyes and ears" on the present.

In the meantime, the present's government producer, Will Packer, informed reporters on Thursday that the ceremony will "respectfully acknowledge" the battle.

"This can be a actually [momentous] time in humankind historical past, and we're very conscious of that," Packer stated, in accordance with CNN. "And so you do not go right into a present like this, I do not suppose, and never concentrate on that and never discover a solution to respectfully acknowledge the place we're and the way lucky we're to even be capable to placed on this present."

Newsweek contacted the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences for an extra remark.