{"id":2331675,"date":"2026-03-16T18:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2331675"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:09:20","slug":"sean-penn-skipped-the-oscars-to-meet-with-president-zelenskyy-in-ukraine-who-thanks-him-as-a-true-friend-to-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sean-penn-skipped-the-oscars-to-meet-with-president-zelenskyy-in-ukraine-who-thanks-him-as-a-true-friend-to-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Penn Skipped the Oscars to Meet With President Zelenskyy in Ukraine, Who Thanks Him as a \u2018True Friend\u2019 to the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000576\/\">Sean Penn<\/a> won his third Oscar Sunday night for supporting actor for his role as Colonel Lockjaw in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000759\/\">Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30144839\/\">One Battle After Another<\/a>,\u201d but he was missing from the awards show.<\/p>\n<p>Penn skipped the ceremony to meet with Ukrainian president <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3305952\/\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>. The Ukrainian leader posted a photo of them together on X, thanking the actor and activist. Zelenskyy wrote, \u201cSean, thanks to you, we know what a true friend of Ukraine is. You have stood with Ukraine since the first day of the full-scale war. This is still true today. And we know that you will continue to stand with our country and our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sean, thanks to you, we know what a true friend of Ukraine is.<\/p>\n<p>You have stood with Ukraine since the first day of the full-scale war.<\/p>\n<p>This is still true today.<\/p>\n<p>And we know that you will continue to stand with our country and our people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Penn won his third Oscar Sunday night for supporting actor for his role as Colonel Lockjaw in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d but he was missing from the awards show. Penn skipped the ceremony to meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian leader posted a photo of them together on X, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2331676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2331675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sean-Penn-Skipped-the-Oscars-to-Meet-With-President-Zelenskyy.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331677,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331675\/revisions\/2331677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2331676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}