Sean Penn Receives Mock Oscar in Ukraine After Skipping Academy Awards; Actor’s Trophy Made of Train Metal ‘That Was Damaged by the Russians’ in a Missile Strike

Makes me like Pacino even more!

He  didn’t get nominated for Scarface - and he was in SF doing American Buffalo at the time.  Soon after that, a group of fans came up to him after a matinee performance, and gave him a fake Oscar, but much bigger…which he still has. That’s in Sonny Boy, but when he tells the story in interviews, he says something like he carries it around, and people are all “look at him, he carries his Oscar around” 🤣 I don’t know if he loved it more than the real one, but it’s incredibly meaningful to him as it came “from the people”

I read that as A.I. Pacino… gulp

Which would imply that there could be better wording to convey a more understandable message, no? I agree that it seems agentic.

Lol new to the world, are ya? His interview literally cause so much harm as El Chapo was arrested within a few days of the interview being released. It cause havoc for the citizens of Mexico. He was literally at fault and actually put Kate De Castillo in one of the scariest situations ever. As a Mexican myself, the story is told in our culture and we know exactly who is at fault for the capture of El Chapo and the killing of innocent civilians in Mexico. Gun and drug trade in Mexico will never ever stop. The US is at fault for it. Go to Mexico and it is extremely rare that you’ll see anything like Skid Row there. You might see unhouse drunks. But extremely rarely will you see drug addicts. Who benefits from the drug and gun trade? The US does, right?

There was no guaranteed interview—it was requested on the spot while they were already at the compound. Sean Penn had a phone on him that was being tracked. This isn’t about glorifying El Chapo. In some areas, what people call “peace” exists because cartels are allowed to operate. They provide for communities in ways local governments often fail to, which speaks to deeper systemic corruption. It’s not fair to place all the blame on citizens or on Mexico alone. There also has to be acknowledgment of the U.S. role—whether it’s the flow of military-grade weapons into Mexico or the demand and systems that enable drug trafficking. For many people living in poverty, involvement in these networks can feel like a matter of survival rather than choice. At the same time, it raises questions: if agencies like the FBI, DEA, and DHS are working so aggressively, how do drugs continue to flow so freely into the U.S.? El Chapo’s capture wasn’t solely because of Sean Penn—Mexico had already been tracking him—but that narrative oversimplifies a much larger, more complex situation.

I think its much more that it was a pretty shitty interview that really shouldn't have happened. If I remember, El Chapo actually states at one point that he's only killed or ordered killings in self defense, which is a hilariously laughable lie and Sean doesn't bother to challenge it at all. And he seemed to have the intent more of showing that the war on drugs is a failure more than bringing up anything about how bloodthirsty and cruel the Sinaola cartel is. Just a complete ethical and moral fumble on Sean's part

This *is* Russian propaganda from the Kremlin