This weekend, after earning war-hero status, he was even name-checked at Hollywood’s epicenter-during the SAG Awards-by two of the acting greats: Brian Cox and Michael Keaton. The film, which has a 5.2 rating on IMDB, was released in Ukrainian theaters in 2018, the year before Zelenskyy became president.Ĭoincidentally, Zelenskyy’s feature-acting work went unrecognized by most in the U.S.-until last week’s display of strength in Ukraine.
Perhaps even more incredibly, Zelenskyy not only competed in Ukraine’s version of Dancing With the Stars back in 2006, but won the competition after competing in hot pink, fringed bell-bottoms, and at another point, in a blindfold. It’s an unlikely backstory for a politician, even in a post-Trump world-but the internet’s collective mind was blown when Hugh Bonneville pointed out on Twitter that Zelenskyy also voiced Paddington Bear in the Ukrainian version of the animated children’s film. The series ended the same year Zelenskyy became the actual president.) The comedian and actor-who trained as a lawyer before veering into show business and eventually politics-was kind of a Jon Stewart–type figure in Ukraine. (In the series, Zelenskyy starred as a teacher who inadvertently became president. This weekend, the Twitterverse went deep on Zelenskyy’s backstory-revealing a venerable entertainment career known well by his countrymen, but one that is less familiar to citizens of other nations.īefore becoming president of Ukraine, Zelenskyy’s political experience was limited to playing Ukraine’s president on the popular satirical TV series he created and produced, Servant of the People.
We will defend our state, because our weapons are our truth,” said Zelenskyy, in a video the politician filmed himself on the streets of Kyiv. Last week, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was christened a war hero when he vowed to stay in his country’s capital of Kyiv and help fend off Vladimir Putin’s troops.
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