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2026-05-07 23:24 UTC
@USSJoshuaNorton@trekkies.social her IMDb says Ukrainian American. Usually that's edited by the person or the person's people. What makes you think she isn't?
Just looked it up that was written by "Steve Shelokhonov and Brad Cafarelli, Publicist."
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@USSJoshuaNorton@trekkies.social 2026-05-07 23:31
@Phangurl@vmst.io Identity is a complicated thing. I've been a fan of hers for a while now, so I was just surprised I'd missed the Ukrainian thread in who she is.
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@USSJoshuaNorton@trekkies.social 2026-05-07 23:29
@Phangurl@vmst.io This quote in her wiki page: "Jovovich has stated that she was born in Ukraine "pretty much by accident", while she has no memories of her early years there." The footnotes direct me to two articles: one I can't read without paying $2, and the other is in a Cyrillic language, probably Russian, but I didn't dig into it or try to translate. It may be that she's choosing to embrace that part of her identity now where she'd previously not felt connect to it?