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🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Alan Olga and this is Clear In Vivid. Conversations about connecting and communicating. |
0:16.0 | People don't really say great things about actors but in many ways this guy was uniquely |
0:21.7 | suited to this job. His sense of his place in the world, his knowledge of dramatic literature, |
0:28.5 | the thing that an actor really handles very well is choices. To be the guy who says, |
0:34.6 | no, I'm not going to take the Midnight Helicopter out, I'm going to stay here and I'm going |
0:39.6 | to represent the seat of power for my country. And I'm not even going to do it from a tunnel |
0:44.3 | or a hole in the ground somewhere, I'm going to do it from Kiev. And you go ahead and |
0:48.9 | you try to take us in three days and see what happens. It was something that demanded the |
0:53.4 | talents of an extraordinary actor and I think he is one. That's the extraordinary actor, |
0:59.8 | Leyev Shriver. He's talking about his meeting not long after the Russian invasion of Ukraine |
1:06.0 | with the Ukrainian president and fellow actor Volodymyr Zelensky. Leyev and I have acted together |
1:12.5 | over the years but we're not talking about acting today. We're talking about helping |
1:17.4 | the people of Ukraine survive this brutal war. It turns out Leyev has a special connection |
1:23.3 | to Ukraine. I'm really glad to be talking to you, Leyev, because you're connected to |
1:30.5 | Ukraine in a way that I wasn't aware of and I really needed to know somebody who was connected |
1:35.7 | with Ukraine when the war started because I wanted to pitch in like so many of us and |
1:40.3 | it didn't know where to go or what to do. I would have called you had I known of your |
1:44.6 | connection. I didn't have my connection. You did, your grandfather came from me. |
1:49.0 | Oh, that, right. Yeah, oh, that. Oh, that little chestnut. A lot of people called me, |
1:56.3 | you know, assuming that because I had Ukrainian ancestry and I'd made everything is illuminated |
2:01.7 | and that there was this connection between me and Ukraine called me wondering, you know, |
2:07.5 | what they could do and the reality is I had no idea. I was fortunate enough to have some |
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