{"id":1010045,"date":"2022-03-03T21:05:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/03\/watch-volodymyr-zelensky-did-rom-coms-dwts-paddington-as-an-actor\/"},"modified":"2022-03-03T21:05:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:05:29","slug":"watch-volodymyr-zelensky-did-rom-coms-dwts-paddington-as-an-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/03\/watch-volodymyr-zelensky-did-rom-coms-dwts-paddington-as-an-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Volodymyr Zelensky did rom-coms, 'DWTS', 'Paddington' as an actor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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March 3 (UPI) —<\/span> In America, actors including Ronald Reagan, Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger have had careers in politics. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also has a celebrity past.<\/p>\n

Leading the Ukrainian resistance against Russian forces, Zelensky has refused to leave for safety, instead choosing to remain in Kyiv and face invading troops.\n<\/p>\n

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Before he was elected Ukrainian president in 2019, Zelensky worked as a standup comedian and television actor. He continued to perform standup while campaigning, and played a fictional Ukrainian president on the TV comedy Servant of the People<\/i>, which ran from 2016 to 2019.<\/p>\n

Channel 4 picked up the rights to air Servant of the People<\/i> in the United Kingdom, The Hollywood Reporter reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n

His first acting credit was a 2005 Three Musketeers<\/i> movie in which he played D’Artagnan. Zelensky competed on the 2006 Dancing with the Stars<\/i> Ukrainian edition, Tantsi z zirkamy<\/i>, and won.<\/p>\n

Zelensky performed the Ukrainian voice of Paddington Bear in dubs of the live-action films Paddington<\/i> and Paddington 2<\/i>. A Paddington 3 <\/i>is in the works.<\/p>\n

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Zelensky was popular in a series of romantic comedies. Titles like No Love in the City <\/i>and its sequel, Office Romance<\/i> and Love in Vegas<\/i> featured posters with Zelensky bearing a bouquet of flowers and preening before leading ladies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 3 (UPI) — In America, actors including Ronald Reagan, Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger have had careers in politics. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also has a celebrity past. Leading the Ukrainian resistance against Russian forces, Zelensky has refused to leave for safety, instead choosing to remain in Kyiv and face invading troops. Advertisement Before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1010046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}