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Sean Penn picked up an Oscar this week aft all. Not the Oscar – nan 1 he won Sunday for his capacity successful One Battle After Another – but a reasonably reasonable facsimile thereof made from nan war-damaged metallic of a Ukrainian railcar.
Penn, a beardown protagonist of Ukraine, skipped Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremonial to walk clip successful nan war-torn state and pinch president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. After his sanction was announced successful nan Best Supporting Actor class Sunday – Penn’s 3rd Oscar triumph aft Mystic River and Milk – nan character was later handed an Oscar-shaped entity by Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, nan CEO of Ukrainian Railways.
In a video posted by Pertsovskyi (see it below), nan CEO tells Penn, “You’re missing Oscars… So we made this one. This is from nan railcar that was damaged by nan Russians.”
A caption accompanying nan video said, “Sean Penn opted for nan travel to [Ukraine] vs. Oscar ceremonial astatine Dolby Theater wherever he was awarded his 3rd. We couldn’t time off our awesome friend and loyal Ukrainian Raiwlays rider without an award. So, I person presented Sean pinch our IronOscar connected behalf of each of us!”
Handing nan “IronOscar” to Penn, Pertsovskyi said “It’s not golden, but it’s very existent and from nan bottommost of our hearts.” The entity reportedly is inscribed pinch nan words, “This alloy erstwhile carried millions of group distant from war. Then a Russian rocket came. We did not melt it into a weapon. We forged it into gratitude — for you. For your talent. For your courageousness to guidelines pinch Ukraine.”
“These are each treasures,” Penn said aft being handed nan IronOscar. “Thank you.”
