{"id":215368,"date":"2023-10-12T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T10:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=215368"},"modified":"2023-10-12T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T10:20:25","slug":"sean-penn-praises-volodymyr-zelensky-for-being-incredibly-genuine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/celebrities\/sean-penn-praises-volodymyr-zelensky-for-being-incredibly-genuine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Penn praises Volodymyr Zelensky for being &apos;incredibly genuine&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sean Penn praises Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky for being &#8216;incredibly genuine&#8217; while promoting Superpower documentary on ABC<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The 63-year-old Academy Award actor appeared on the ABC talk show to promote Superpower currently available on the Paramount+ streaming service\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Sean said they had planned on doing a lighthearted look at a comic actor who had become president<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0&#8216;There&#8217;s never a moment with him that&#8217;s not genuine,&#8217; Sean said of Zelensky<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sean Penn praised Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday while promoting his documentary Superpower about the president of Ukraine on Jimmy Kimmel Live.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old Academy Award actor appeared on the ABC talk show to promote Superpower currently available on the Paramount+ streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>Sean, wearing a black jacket, jeans and sneakers, told Jimmy, 55, about meeting Zelensky, 45, in a bunker. Sean said he met the Ukrainian president for the first time face-to-face to discuss his participation in filming and by the next morning he heard rockets heading towards Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Then we got a surprising call from the President&#8217;s office that he was going to continue and have the first session of shooting,&#8217; Sean said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You did not go over there knowing that Russia was about to attack Ukraine,&#8217; Jimmy said. &#8216;You went over there, and correct me if I&#8217;m wrong, to make a documentary about Zelensky.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/07\/76461657-12621991-image-m-61_1697091130467.jpg\" height=\"405\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>New documentary:\u00a0Sean Penn praised Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday while promoting his documentary Superpower about the president of Ukraine on Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was before any news of a Russian buildup,&#8217; Sean said. &#8216;We knew that Ukraine had been at war, defensively at war, in the east since 2014.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sean said they had planned on doing a lighthearted look at a comic actor who had become president. Jimmy said he also heard that Sean received a warning from the US State Department telling them to get out of Ukraine because it wasn&#8217;t safe. Sean said they worked with an Ukrainian production crew who had no intent on leaving their country.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy shared a clip from the bunker in which Zelensky said Russian President Vladimir Putin hated them and he didn&#8217;t know why.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When he came in that day, in that piece that you showed, it was as though he was born for this moment,&#8217; Sean said. &#8216;There is something incredibly genuine about him.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sean said his goal with the film was to give a context to the situation that you wouldn&#8217;t get from the news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s not a surprise to most people that I&#8217;m an opinionated person but I work very hard in the editing of this film to not hide that,&#8217; Sean said.<\/p>\n<p>Sean was asked what Zelensky was like.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Of any head of state, of any politician, of any head of a large company, there&#8217;s a time you start to feel the script and the spin,&#8217; Sean said. &#8216;There&#8217;s never a moment with him that&#8217;s not genuine.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/07\/76461659-12621991-image-m-63_1697091170276.jpg\" height=\"297\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bunker clip:\u00a0Jimmy shared a Superpower clip from the bunker in which Zelensky said Russian President Vladimir Putin hated them and he didn&#8217;t know why<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/07\/76461319-12621991-image-a-65_1697091271815.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Always genuine:\u00a0&#8216;Of any head of state, of any politician, of any head of a large company, there&#8217;s a time you start to feel the script and the spin,&#8217; Sean said. &#8216;There&#8217;s never a moment with him that&#8217;s not genuine&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/07\/76461327-12621991-image-a-64_1697091248878.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>ABC show: Jimmy welcomed the 63-year-old Oscar winner onto his ABC talk show<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy asked if Zelensky had seen the documentary and Sean said he saw a rough cut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He doesn&#8217;t come off great in the first half-hour of the movie,&#8217; Sean said. &#8216;When I walked into the office, he had watched it at 6:30 that morning.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sean said Zelensky stood up and looked at him and said &#8216;I bet you are glad that I watched the whole thing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy asked him when he goes to dangerous situations if he had a schedule about checking in with his kids to let them know he is okay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sean said he would just lie and tell them and his assistant that &#8216;everything&#8217;s just fine.&#8217; Sean recalled when he went to Iraq in 2002 and that his kids were not happy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I got a sat phone and I thought this is the moment, kids are home from school, I can call real quick,&#8217; Sean said. &#8216;Usually very quiet time of day. I went to a wall and just when both kids got on the phone, there was a war on the other side, just rap rap rap rap and my son said &#8216;what is that dad?&#8217; So I never called them from any place again.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sean has son Hopper, 30, and daughter Dylan, 32, with ex-wife Robin Wright, 57.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy asked how he would feel if his kids went to war areas like him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/07\/76461317-12621991-image-a-66_1697091324766.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Checking in:\u00a0Jimmy asked him when he goes to dangerous situations if he had a schedule about checking in with his kids to let them know he is okay<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have hundreds of thousands of young men and women who are doing that to protect our country all the time,&#8217; Sean said. &#8216;My children, I prefer they are not in dangerous places. I remember being in Ukraine and seeing what happened on television with Chris Rock at the Academy Awards and Will Smith and I thought, I didn&#8217;t like them being in that dangerous place.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sean dedicated the film to a Ukrainian fighter pilot named Juice who he took with him to see a screening of the new Top Gun movie in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said in the film when Tom Cruise ejects from his plane and makes his way through the desert and finds a diner that Juice leaned over and said to him &#8216;That&#8217;s why I always take my wallet.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Superpower premiered in February at the Berlin International Film Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12621991\/Sean-Penn-praises-Ukrainian-president-Volodymyr-Zelensky-incredibly-genuine-promoting-Superpower-documentary-ABC.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Penn praises Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky for being &#8216;incredibly genuine&#8217; 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