Victor Kovalenko is going to be the star of a movie. A biopic based on the life of Australia’s most celebrated sailing coach has been in filming for months. Well, it was, until the Ukrainian actor playing him went to war with Russia.
“He is now on the frontline as a volunteer,” Kovalenko says. “He was in the war before, like in 2014, 2015 and 2016, also as a volunteer. Now he’s [an] officer and he has a lot of experience. They’ve done part of the film in Ukraine. They were supposed to do a little bit more, but now it’s war.”
