David Letterman will interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on an upcoming episode of his Netflix present, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.
Letterman just lately traveled to Kyiv to interview Zelensky because the president leads his nation’s efforts to show again the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The preventing between the 2 nations is in its tenth month.
The interview will run as a stand-alone episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction earlier than the tip of the yr (a selected date hasn’t been set). The interview would be the present’s first with an lively head of state; Letterman interviewed former U.S. President Barack Obama in My Next Guest’s first episode in 2018.
Zelensky is a former comic and TV star himself, having performed the lead position in a comedy sequence known as Servant of the People — a couple of historical past trainer who’s elected president of Ukraine — earlier than operating in and successful the 2019 presidential election.
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction options longform interviews between Letterman and a visitor. The present’s 4 seasons and 24 episodes have featured the likes of Will Smith, Tina Fey, Kim Kardashian, Lizzo, Howard Stern and Malala Yousafzai, amongst others. There’s no phrase but on a fifth season.
Letterman’s Worldwide Pants, Inc. and Jax Media produce the sequence.
