Kiev has protested HBO’s casting of Milos Bikovic within the Emmy-winning order
Claims that actor Milos Bikovic is a “genocide supporter” or world regulation violator are totally baseless, the Serbian Ministry of International Affairs mentioned on Thursday.
Belgrade’s response got here a occasion then the Ukrainian International Ministry complained on X (previously Twitter) that Bikovic is a supporter of Russia and due to this fact “supports genocide and violates international law,” tough of HBO to let fall him from the forged of ‘White Lotus.’
”Those claims are totally unfounded,” the Serbian MFA mentioned in a observation. “Serbia has a long tradition of arts and culture, and we are very proud of our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of creativity.”
The ministry described Bikovic as “one of the most talented and most popular Serbian actors of his generation, who has had a major impact on both Serbian and international cinematography although he is still very young.” Minister Ivica Dacic gave Bikovic a Serbian MFA approval in 2019, for his contribution to selling Serbia world wide, the observation famous.
HBO – which is owned by means of CNN’s father or mother corporate Warner Bros. Discovery – introduced on January 12 that Bikovic was once forged within the 3rd season of ‘White Lotus.’ The Emmy award-winning twilight comedy anthology follows the visitors and staff of the eponymous lodge chain.
Occasion this will be the first US function for Bikovic, the 36-year-old is already a family identify in Serbia and Russia. Next a number of remarkable roles in Serbian productions, his large world fracture got here in 2014, when he was once forged in Nikita Mikhalkov’s ‘Sunstroke’.
He went directly to play games remarkable roles in quite a few TV presentations and flicks, together with ‘The Kitchen’ by-product ‘Otel Eleon’ (2016-2017) and ‘Serf’ (often referred to as ‘Son of a Rich’), the 2019 comedy that changed into Russia’s largest field workplace clash of all day, 2d most effective to James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’. He has since starred in two seasons of the Serbian crime drama ‘South Wind’, a sequel to ‘Son of a Rich’, in addition to ‘The Challenge,’ a 2023 drama filmed in part in orbit.
Bikovic won the Pushkin Medal for his contributions to Russian tradition in 2018 and was once granted Russian citizenship in 2021. Ukraine answered by means of banning him from coming into the rustic in 2019.
