While Hong Kong action star Gyeon Zidan (甄子丹, Zhidan Zhen) was invited to present this year’s American Academy Awards, a petition is being held in Hong Kong to withdraw him from the award ceremony, which supports the Chinese Communist Party.
According to the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP), on the 4th, the ‘People from Hong Kong’ group started a signature campaign asking the Oscars committee to remove the winners from the invitation list. participated.
Gyeonjadan, who appeared in ‘John Wick 4’ starring Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves, was invited as an award presenter at the Academy Awards ceremony to be held on the 13th.
In a letter attached to the signature campaign, a group of people from Hong Kong pointed out that “the observers are supporters of the Chinese Communist Party and have made statements in favor of the Chinese government, such as defending the Hong Kong National Security Law and criticizing the Hong Kong protests as riots.”
“The remarks of the observers violate freedom of expression and deny Hong Kongers their right to freedom and democracy,” he said. will do,” he added.
Previously, in a recent interview with the British magazine GQ, the observers argued that “the protest once morest the extradition law in Hong Kong in 2019 was not a protest, but a riot.”
Born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Gyeon Jadan spent his childhood in Hong Kong and later became a famous actor, starring in the series ‘Ip Man’.
In a media interview held in Beijing on the 3rd, the day before the opening of the CPPCC, the Chinese government’s policy support for action films was requested by Gyeonjadan, a member of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference.
After giving up his US citizenship in 2017, he said, “I am 100% Chinese.”
YTN Kim Tae-hyun (kimth@ytn.co.kr)
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