SAG Awards 2022: Succession’s Brian Cox calls attention to Ukraine in speech
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At the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held this year at the Santa Monica Barker Hangar, several renowned personalities made emotional references to the situation in Ukraine during their speeches at the ceremony.
Los Angeles: At the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held this year at the Santa Monica Barker Hangar, several renowned personalities made emotional references to the situation in Ukraine during their speeches at the ceremony.
While accepting the award for best drama ensemble on behalf of 'Succession', Brian Cox called attention to the way Russia's actions affect actors and artists in particular.
"One other thing I would like to add," Cox said after praising his fellow cast and crew members, "which I think is important to me and I hope important to you as actors and performers and writers and directors what's going on in Ukraine. It's truly, truly awful.
"It's particularly awful in terms of (how) it's affecting people particularly in our profession. The President of Ukraine (Volodymyr Zelensky) was a comic. He was a wonderful comic performer. And we should respect that. To come to the presidency was amazing.
"But the thing that really distressed me is what's happening in Russia, to my fellow actors and actresses and performers and writers and critics. They are told, under pain of high treason, they cannot say a word about Ukraine.
