Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared on the sixty fourth annual Grammy Awards to offer a pre-taped speech amid Russia’s continued invasion of his nation. An insider confirmed the looks to Selection forward of the Grammys broadcast.
President Zelenskyy shot the video throughout the final 48 hours in a bunker in Kyiv. The video launched John Legend‘s efficiency about two hours into the present.
“The conflict. What’s extra reverse of music? The silence of ruined cities and killed individuals,” Zelenskyy mentioned.
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“Our kids draw swooping rockets, not capturing stars. Over 400 kids have been injured and 153 kids died, and we’ll by no means see them drawing. Our dad and mom are glad to get up within the morning in bomb shelters, however alive. Our family members do not know if we can be collectively once more. The conflict does not allow us to select who survives and who stays in everlasting silence.”
Zelenskyy continued, “Our musicians put on physique armour as an alternative of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded in hospitals. Even to those that cannot hear them. However the music will break by means of anyway. We defend our freedom. To dwell. To like. To sound. On our land, we’re combating Russia which brings horrible silence with its bombs. Fill the silence along with your music. Fill it in the present day. Inform our story. Inform the reality concerning the conflict in your social networks and TV. However not silence.”
Previous to the 2022 Grammys telecast, it was unclear whether or not or not Zelenskyy would seem by way of satellite tv for pc or a pre-taped video phase, if in any respect. Zelenskyy didn’t seem per week prior through the 2022 Oscars, regardless of a lot hypothesis round his look. The concept of Zelenskyy making an Oscars look was first floated by co-host Amy Schumer throughout an interview on The Drew Barrymore Present. Schumer mentioned she pitched the ceremony’s producers on getting Zelenskyy concerned.
Oscars co-producer Will Packer mentioned at a press convention earlier than the Oscars {that a} Zelenskyy look wasn’t but out of the query, however the Ukrainian president didn’t seem through the ceremony. Sean Penn made headlines the day earlier than the Oscars by telling CNN’s Jim Acosta that he would “smelt” his Oscars in public if the Academy elected towards asking Zelenskyy to talk through the dwell telecast.
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“There’s nothing larger that the Academy Awards might do than to offer [Zelenskyy] a possibility to speak to all of us,” Penn mentioned.
“It’s my understanding {that a} choice has been made to not do it. That isn’t me commenting on whether or not or not President Zelenskyy had wished to… If the [Academy has] elected to not pursue the management in Ukraine, who’re taking bullets and bombs for us, together with the Ukrainian kids that they’re making an attempt to guard, then I believe each single a type of individuals and each little bit of that call may have been essentially the most obscene second in all of Hollywood historical past.”
Oscars co-host Wanda Sykes shut down the prospect of a Zelenskyy Oscars look on the pink carpet, telling Selection, “I believe he is very busy proper now. Hollywood, we are able to get a bit filled with ourselves, and we predict that what we’re doing is all so essential. And I perceive that yeah, what we do, it reaches lots of people. And we are able to persuade individuals, but additionally, simply know your lane. what I am saying? Know your lane.”
Information of Zelenskyy’s look was first reported by Showbiz 411.
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