Dave Bedrosian / Geisler-FotopressActor Donnie Yen, who starred in John Wick 4, is being asked to be removed from hosting the Oscars due to his political views. The petition has already been signed by thousands of people.
The petition, which surfaced online, calls for Yen to be removed from the event due to “Chinese government support”. The author of the petition is Hong Kong activist Tong Wai Hung. He believes that the presence of an actor at the ceremony “would harm the image and reputation of the film industry”. Yen spoke out against the 2019 protests in Hong Kong last month, NME reports.
Earlier it became known that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the second time in a row was denied a speech at the Oscars. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, asked to award the politician “for playing the main role in an American horror series”, writes TR .
