Posted on 09/05/2022 7:42:05 PM PDT by Morgana
Russia slapped Hollywood stars Ben Stiller and Sean Penn with sanctions on Monday in response to their public criticism of Moscow's war on Ukraine.
Putin's foreign ministry included the actors on a new list of 25 US citizens banned from the country.
Those affected are mainly politicians, trade officials and industrial executives. The sanctions bar them from entering Russia.
Stiller and Penn have been vocal supporters of Ukraine in the conflict and have met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in high-profile shows of support.
In a televised meeting in Kyiv in June, Stiller, star of Zoolander, Meet the Parents and Dodgeball, told Zelensky: 'It's a great honor for me. It's really wonderful. You're my hero.'
Two-time Oscar winner Penn was in Ukraine recording a documentary when Russia invaded on February 24.
He was forced to flee on foot, joining the millions of Ukrainians crossing into Poland in the first days of the war.
He has been a vocal backer of Zelensky ever since and ever returned to Ukraine in June to meet the war-torn country's leader.
Penn was supposed to meet Zelensky ahead of war breaking out. He noted how he didn't have time to see if Zelensky could be a good friend and so 'decided he's a great friend that I love,' noting 'I don't know if I'll see him again'.
'Part of what makes him so particularly extraordinary is that courage, he's the face of so many Ukrainians. I mean this is leadership we aspire to, this is freedom of thought and true leadership that mostly is just so moving,' Penn said at the time.
'Ukraine with all its diversity has a unity we've never seen in modern times with the challenge it has.'
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Please don’t throw me in the briar patch Br’er Fox.
WGAF?
WGAF?
“How do I get banned from Russia? It will enhance my prestige”.
Save your energy and simply never go to Russia. I’m sure your ego will survive.
Missed opportunity. Russia should be smarter about this. Invite Stiller and Sean immediately to Moscow immediately, show them around, serve a nice big dinner and ask them simple questions about Ukraine.
What a terrible blow for the Russian people. How will they recover from the shock.
If only they could be banned from the US. Especially Penn. I haven’t heard a whole lot bad about Stiller.
Those two clowns should be permanently banned to Ukraine to live with Zelinsky
That was fine thing the Russian government did for their people.
Gotta say, I’d have hoped for a different outcome.
I respect and enjoy Sean Penn as an actor.
On the other hand, all of his politics completely suck.
Ben Stiller has an amazing movie work ethic, but I know nothing about his politics.
I have never paid to see a Stiller movie.
The Royal Tenenbaums is the only Stiller movie I have watched from beginning to end - and just one time.
Stiller was in Empire of the Sun, which I have watched several times, but I do not recall seeing him.
Oh no, not Derek Zoolander.
I note that Russia also permanently kicked out Bald and Bankrupt.
Bald and Bankrupt is very lucky he didn’t get 20 years in the gulag like that Russian journalist just did.
The only time I nearly puked watching movie- Sean Penn in the movie “Milk” (about a gay California politician) sitting on the floor in a corner hugging and full-on French kissing (vigorously) another male actor
I actually started to throw up.
I’m reluctant to believe anything from the Daily Mail. Remember how they treated Trump?
I did not know that about Stiller. Thanks.
Good analogy... I’ve been to Yemen and trust me it ain’t worth squat.
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