of the politics and decided to go to power, and he became a president. so before he became a real president, he was president on tv, and people liked this image very much. vasily goloborodko, the character zelensky played, was everything that ukraine's real presidents hadn't been up until that point. taras stadnytskyi is a peer of zelensky from ukraine's comedy circuit. when i interviewed zelensky in 2019, he accepted some might vote for him in the hope of getting the fictional president.