Sean Penn Pledges Smelting his Prize if Zelensky Hasn't Oscars Appearance

On Sunday, the award-winning Comedian Sean Penn pledged that he will smelt his Oscars prize if the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not invited for tonight's Acadamy Awards Ceremony.

Penn's threats came a week after Amy Schumer claimed that Oscars organizers rejected her idea for inviting Zelensky for an online appearance at the ceremony

She said that having a wide audience could be a chance for highlighting the crisis of Ukraine

“I actually pitched, I wanted to find a way to have Zelensky satellite in or make a tape or something just because there are so many eyes on the Oscars,” continuing, “I am not afraid to go there, but it’s not me producing the Oscars.”

Therefore, Penn who is producing a documentary on the Russian invasion in Ukraine said that if Zelensky does not appear, actors should boycott the ceremony.

“If it turns out to be what is happening, I would encourage everyone involved, 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. I myself, if it comes back to it, when I return, I will smelt mine in public,” he told the CNN.

“I pray that’s not what happened. I pray there have not been arrogant people who consider themselves representatives of the greater good who have decided not to check in with leadership in Ukraine. So I’m going to hope that’s not what happened, and I hope everyone walks out if it is," he finalized.