Actors Recorded Videos for ‘Vladimir.’ It Turned Into Russian Propaganda.
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you've ever wanted to send someone a message, but just make it a bit more |
| 0:09.3 | Hollywood. There's an app for that. It's called Cameo. Thousands of celebrities, athletes, and |
| 0:16.1 | influencers are on the app. And for a fee, they'll record almost any |
| 0:20.8 | message you want. |
| 0:21.8 | Hello friends. |
| 0:24.0 | Elijah here. |
| 0:25.0 | I just wanted to say hello and that I have joined Cameo. |
| 0:29.0 | One of the celebrities on Cameo is Elijah Wood. He's best known for playing |
| 0:34.6 | Frodo in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This is super new for me and I'm really |
| 0:39.0 | excited to see what your requests are for your friends your loved ones it should be a lot of fun and I really look forward to it. |
| 0:49.1 | Where does Elijah would rank among the celebrities on cameo. |
| 0:52.8 | Oh, I think he's one of the top celebrities that's on cameo. |
| 0:57.0 | That's our colleague Bob McMillan. |
| 0:58.9 | He covers cybersecurity. |
| 1:00.8 | And he says, earlier this year, Wood got a request that on its face seemed pretty |
| 1:05.4 | run of the mill. He was asked to record a video for someone named Vladimir who |
| 1:10.6 | apparently was having a substance abuse problem. |
| 1:13.0 | Vladimir, hi, Elijah here. |
| 1:16.0 | I hope this finds you happy, healthy, and well. |
| 1:19.0 | And if you watch the video, |
| 1:22.0 | he sounded very compassionate, very concerned, he sort of delivers these words of encouragement to someone named Vladimir, who he clearly believes to be in trouble. |
| 1:34.0 | I just hope that you know you're looking at yourself, |
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